List of Great Software for Windows and Mac

Xah Lee, 2009-08-08, …, 2011-06-25

This page lists some useful software for Mac and Windows that i personally use.

Image Viewer

• Win ＆ Mac: Google Picasa. See also: Picasa Pains: Using Picasa Web as Backup; Sync All Folders.
• Mac: GraphicConverter
• Windows: Irfanview
• Windows: Xnview

Image Editor

• Win ＆ Mac: Gimp

Vector Graphics Drawing

• Win ＆ Mac: Inkscape

Music Player

• Win ＆ Mac: iTunes

Video Player

• Win ＆ Mac: VLC media player
• Win ＆ Mac:QuickTime

Audio and Music

See: Audio Recorder, Synthesizers, MIDI Software.

Office (WordProcessor, Spread Sheet, …)

• OpenOffice.org

Mail

Gmail, Yahoo Mail, HotMail

Mac: Apple Mail.

Windows: Windows Live Mail. See also: Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail, Confusion Ball.

Text Chat, IRC

all-in-one chats software for your Yahoo/AIM/MSN. But these usually only support text chat, no video or voice.

• Mac: Adium
• Mac: Colloquy (IRC client)
• Windows: Pidgin

{Voice, Video} Chat

• Skype. See: Skype Chat Encryption and Screen Sharing
• Google+ features “hangout”, which is voice and video chat for multiple people. (See: What is Google Plus and Google+ Songs)

Text Editor

Emacs. See: Which Emacs to Download for Windows and Mac?

Mac: TextWrangler (free version of BBEdit), TextMate.

Windows: Notepad++

Unix utils

Mac: build-in.

Windows: Cygwin. (See: Installing Cygwin Tutorial.)

Or, VirtualBox with Ubuntu Linux.

For text terminal, you can use ssh in cygwin (install openssh within cygwin). Or, you can download PuTTY. MinTTY seems to be a improved version of PuTTY.

Keyboard Macros ＆ Launchers

Mac: Mac OS X Keyboard Layout, Keymapping, Keybinding, Tools.

Windows: Keyboard Layout ＆ Key Macro tools for Windows.

File Sharing, BitTorrent

• Win ＆ Mac: Vuze
• Win: μTorrent

See also: Comparison of BitTorrent clients.

File Secure Deletion

See: Secure Deletion, File Shredding, on Windows, Linux, Mac.

Math

see: Great Math Programs

Video Capture

Screen Video Capture, Screencasting, Softwares

3D Modeling Software

List of 3D Modeling Software.

Windows Only Things

Anti-Virus, PC Diagnostics, Sys Admin

• Microsoft Security Essentials. (alternatives: AVG, ClamWin)
• Built-in: Windows Firewall, Windows Defender, Windows Update.

• Windows Memory Diagnostic. Source oca.microsoft.com.
• Partimage (disk cloning)
• Piriform Ccleaner (clear cache, etc.)
• Piriform Recuva (Data recovery)
• Piriform Defraggler

Programing and Sys Admin

• Process Explorer @ Source technet.microsoft.com
• FileZilla (ftp)
• 7-zip (zip, unzip, gzip, extracting installer exe etc.)

• Microsoft Log Parser 2.2. Source
• Cacls Command line tool to view or set file permissions.

• Wireshark (a packet sniffer)
• Peer gardian (IP blocker)
• ZoneAlarm (full featured firewall)

For monitoring network, see also: tool for monitoring network traffic on Windows 7 Home @ Source superuser.com

Programing

PowerShell.

Inno Setup. (create installers)