User:Jtneill/Software

Software I use... edit

7-Zip - for zipping
Acronis True Image - tested for backup but now trying Toucan
Adobe Reader
Any FLV Player
CamStudio - for screencasting
DokuWiki - for a simple, no database open source wiki
Internet Explorer - because some sites only work in IE
Firefox -> Firefox Portable - but also Thunderbrowse - for web browsing
HTML-Kit - for a text editor, but now trying FSPad
Inkscape - for image editing, also trying Gimp
iTunes - for son's iTouch - but just play music with VLC
Juice - for subscribing to and downloading podcasts
Launchy - didn't use it much - quick launch utility for Windows
MediaWiki - use this lots for everything at Open Educational Resources (OER) and Wilderdom
Microsoft FrontPage - as an html editor
Microsoft Outlook - for work email at work
Microsoft Powertoys - especially image resizer and a little bit TweakUI
Microsoft Windows XP - eventually I hope something like Ubuntu
Microsoft Office -> Word - Excel - Powerpoint - but only occasionally - I use Open Office instead
Moodle - an open source learning management system - at UC via http://learnonline.canberra.edu.au
MWSnap - Neat, windows screen capture - a favourite
Open Office -> Writer - Calc - Impress - Draw
PDF Split and Merge - Very handy for splitting or merging PDF docs
PhotoStudio - A lightweight image editor - found a disk somewhere
PrimoPDF - For generating PDFs
R - Free and open source statistical analysis software
Quiz generation - I used Respondus and Qedoc but then I learnt GIFT format and import to Moodle
Skype - for VoIP
SPSS - GUI for statistical analysis
Taskbar Shuffle - Windows utility for changing order of open applications - A favourite
Thunderbird - For email, with Thunderbrowse
TreeSize - Windows tool for analysing the sizes of folders and files
Ubuntu -> Edubuntu for the kids - Slowly transitioning from Windows to GNULinux operating systems
VLC - for playing media files
WinMerge - for analysing the text differences between files
Zen Cart - free and open source e-commerce (shopping cart) software at http://wilderdom.com/store