Re: perlmonks reccomended win32 programs

This is really Off-Topic. However, I can recommend a few programs that still run on my venerable Windows 98 box:

AVG for anti-virus software. it still updates and runs weekly.
HyperSnap-DX, a really, really good, basic image capture and editing program from Hyperionics. It's been letting me scan photos (with my $50 scanner) for close to ten years. Excellent value.
Goldwave for audio editing and Multiquence for editing and sequencing audio and video. I still use Goldwave for most of my editing, althought I'm trying to move it all over to Audacity, which is nice, but nowhere near as convenient as Multiquence.
PMMail98 -- an excellent E-Mail program that was ported from the original program written for OS/2, which I also paid for.
EditPad, a terrific editor that I now see has been split into Lite and Pro versions.
V, a terrific file viewer.
WinAmp - a really nice MP3 player that keeps wanting to upgrade to something bigger, fatter and slower. I keep saying no every time I use it.
SecureCRT and SecureFX from VanDyke Technologies -- really fantastic SSH and secure FTP clients. I don't use the SSH client much any more, but I use the secure FTP program regularly.
4DOS for the command line -- an absolutely dynamite replacement for DOS from JP Software; my license for this software probably goes back close to 20 years -- basically it puts the power of bash into a DOS command line. Installing this on my 386/16 sometime in 1988-89 was mind-blowing. Command line editing, filename completion, command line history, on-line help .. wow.
TimeSlice, a terrific time tracking and billing package from Modesitt Software (used to be Maui Software). I used this during the Internet boom to track my time and bill clients. Very nice.
WinVNC. Using a remote desktop is really, really cool.

Wow -- there are actually quite a few terrific programs that I have on that Windows machine. I haven't bought new software for that machine in quite a while, so everything is frozen at about the year 2000 when I was self-employed and using that machine as my only workstation. I now have three Linux machines in addition to the Windows machine.

The Windows machine is used mostly for audio editing and image scanning, but still (thank goodness) works fine.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

"Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds

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Re^2: perlmonks reccomended win32 programs by xdg (Monsignor) on Jan 07, 2008 at 16:13 UTC
SecureCRT and SecureFX from VanDyke Technologies ++ for these. Well worth the money I paid years and years ago. What I particularly like is that they can all share the same identity file. I also like their Entunnel -- a nice, headless SSH port tunneling program that sits as an icon in the tray. -xdg Code written by xdg and posted on PerlMonks is public domain. It is provided as is with no warranties, express or implied, of any kind. Posted code may not have been tested. Use of posted code is at your own risk.	[reply]
Re^2: perlmonks reccomended win32 programs by Argel (Prior) on Jan 09, 2008 at 19:55 UTC
What about using the freely available PuTTY for SSH, SCP, SFTP, etc?	[reply]
Re^3: perlmonks reccomended win32 programs by talexb (Chancellor) on Jan 09, 2008 at 20:05 UTC
PuTTY was nice -- I used it for a while, but it had its limitations -- that's OK, it's free software. So I ended up trying SecureCRT and loved it -- I probably paid for it after using it less than a week. I could ramble on about features and ease of use, but for me the bottom line is, whatever you're doing, working on the computer, splitting wood, cooking dinner, doing some demolition, driving a motorcycle or skiing, it's fantastic to have really nice equipment. It just works, it doesn't break, it doesn't get in your way, it doesn't fight with you or fail when it's inconvenient. It just works. I like that. I really like that. Alex / talexb / Toronto "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds	[reply]