Destroy another computer? Got a new one? No matter. Here's what you need.
General Desktop
1. Reclaim real estate from those bozo title bar buttons.
Get your little blue theme back. (The button size is available under the Display Property's Appearance tab's Advanced button.)
2. Get Dave's Quick Search Deskbar (DQSD).
Don't forget to use your custom style sheet, localsearch.css, and the updated mwd.xml from subversion. The default styles aren't so hot.
3. Get the GMail notifier.
4. Get Mozilla Firefox.
Your favorite theme is winestripe. Get the Add-ons you love:
- foxmarks bookmark synchronizer. Once you've got the synchronizer, get your work or home bookmarks.
- IE Tab
- Delicious Bookmarks 2.0.64
- Tab To Window
- Google Gears
about:config parameters:
browser.tabs.tabMinWidth 75 browser.tabs.closeButtons 3 browser.urlbar.hideGoButton true
5. Get Pure Text.
Never suffer the unwanted formatted text paste into Outlook again. Windows+V is your new friend.
Development Environment
6. Get Python and a compatible win32all module and editor.
If that win32all link went stale, try sourceforge.
7. Get the ToggleFile and the CppUnit TestRunner AddIns.
Register the dll, then "devenv /setup" to let VisStudio setup the AddIn. (Togglefile is hosted at Google Code.) Don't forget to map the keys Ctrl+W (File Close) and Ctrl+T (Toggle file).
8. Get WinMerge.
9. Get SVN for home.
10. To Access SharePoint from FireFox.
Go to your Firefox address bar and type about:config. Find the key called network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris. Set that key's value to a comma separated list of servers for which you want NTLM authentication.
Discretionary
12. FTP with FileZilla, and compress/extract with 7 Zip.
13. More Firefox Addins:
14. Restore your backup from mozy.
15. PDF creation: PDF Creator and reading: Foxit.
16. Get Paint.NET
Don't forget the plugins you like:
- EoEffects.dll - Evan's Effects v1.0 by evanolds. (Mirror and Quad Reshape.)
- Shape3D.dll - Shape3D by MKT. (3D Mapping onto cube, sphere and cylinder.)