Need	Compatibility	Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader	For viewing PDF documents, which are very common.
		RealPlayer	For viewing RealAudio and RealVideo streams.
		Macromedia/Adobe Flash Player	For viewing Flash pages and videos, which are very common.
		OpenOffice.org or Microsoft® Office ($)	For documents, spreadsheets, databases, presentations, formulas, drawings, etc.
		K-Lite Mega Codec Pack	For proper loading of videos and audio.
		RARLAB WinRAR	For extracting .RAR archives.
		Sun Microsystems Java	For viewing Java applets, which are very common.
Should have	Anti-Malware	Grisoft AVG Anti-Virus	For defense against viruses and trojans.
		Lavasoft Ad-Aware	For defense against spyware and adware.
	Graphics	IrfanView	For easy viewing and manipulating many graphics formats, including fast-paced list-based format conversion.
		Media Player Classic (also supplied in the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack download)	For easy viewing of most video and audio formats.
	Resource Attainment	LimeWire	For downloading usually small files distributed across peers.
		BitTyrant	For downloading huge files distributed across peers to save bandwidth.
	Tools	Mozilla Firefox	For browsing the Web safely, smoothly, and correctly.
		Astonsoft DeepBurner	For burning data/audio DVDs and CDs.
		WinISO ($)	For ripping ISO images from CDs to be able to copy them or use them as virtual CDs with VCDControlTool.
Might want	Audio	Audacity (and LAME MP3 encoder)	For advanced editing of audio. The LAME encoder can be downloaded separately, but also comes with Free Easy Burner.
		Anvil Studio	For making MIDI music files.
		Nullsoft WinAmp	For listening to streaming audio files.
		DrPetter's sfxr	For making sound effects.
	Coding	Programming languages (Microsoft® Visual Basic at least)	For making programs.
		resHack	For vastly improving the resource files of programs made with Microsoft® Visual Basic.
		Microsoft® HTML Help Workshop	For making help files for those programs.
		GameMaker	For making cheap, rapid-development videogames.
	Graphics	Corel Paint Shop Pro ($) or Adobe Photoshop ($) or GIMP or Paint.NET	For advanced editing of images, including layers and alpha transparency.
		Corel DRAW ($) or InkScape	For creation of cool logos and other graphics, using such tools as vectors and gradients.
		POV-Ray	For creation of extremely realistic three-dimensional scenery through code.
		Microsoft® GIF Animator or Kinesis Animator	For creation of GIF animations for use on websites.
		iICO	For creation of icons for your programs.
	Tools	Microsoft® Virtual CD	For use with WinISO (or alt.) to treat ISO files as CDs, which is much faster and doesn't require a physical CD present.
		Microsoft® TweakUI	For editing many hidden options in Windows, including no-password-after-standby and auto-login-as-user.
	Videos	VirtualDub (and Alessandro Malanca's gamma plugin)	For advanced editing of many types of videos.
		Kotus Sub Station	For adding subtitles to videos edited with VirtualDub.
		eRightSoft SUPER	For converting videos or audio to other formats.
		Orbit Downloader	For saving videos from YouTube and other websites that use the Flash video format.

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This page was last updated April 11, 2008.