Favorite Tools

The following is a list of my favorite tools – things that I use every day, or nearly every day.

This is a work in progress.

My Desktop:

  • Gateway FX6801
  • Intel Core I7 920 (2.66 GHz)
  • 9GB RAM
  • 1 Terabyte HDD
  • NVidia GeForce GTX260
  • (2) Acer 23″ Widescreen LCD’s
  • Windows 7 Ultimate

My Laptop:

  • HP Pavillion DV9500.
  • 3 GB RAM
  • Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.00 GHz
  • (1) 250 GB HDD
  • (1) 150 GB HDD
  • Windows 7 Ultimate

Windows 7 Applications

  • Dropbox
  • Firefox - See my favorite add-ons list. Google Chrome – it’s wickedly fast!
  • MS Office 2010
  • Skype
  • DoubleTwist
  • DropBox – A must-have for saving files in the cloud.
  • VLC – Plays nearly everything.
  • TweetDeck – Ultimate for Twittering.
  • X-Chat – For all your IRC needs.
  • Virtual Clone Drive – for mounting iso’s.

Development Tools

  • Visual Studio 2010 Professional
  • MS SQL Server 2008 Express
  • Resharper plugin for Visual Studio
  • VisualSVN