Applications that I use (almost) every day
Most of time at work I’ve been using Windows Os. Here are some tools that I’m constantly using:
Snippets Website
Great tool for storing snippets. Pros:
- Supports tagging them, selecting categories
- performing indexed search
- has great UI Cons: The stuff that I don’t like is Memory leak which happens when UI is opened for a while. It is fixed by killing app and starting again.
Mobaxterm Website
Go-to tool for remote access to the machines.
Pros:
- Remembers passwords for all connections.
- You can create shortcuts for different sessions.
- Supports X-forwards by-default
- Opens remote GUI for sftp/scp session by-default - great tool for files transfers
- Highlights text by default using different regexes or patterns
- Allows to increase/decrease font size
- Allows Multiple consoles execution, showing of multiple windows at the same time
- Allows to clean up scroll
- Allows to search text within console
- Has a great text editor tool, that allow remote text editing with code highlighting
- Highlights console tab header with blue if something had changed
Cons:
- Standard version supports only limited number of saved sessions. When you reach this limit - you cannot create shortcuts anymore.
- Sometimes it goes crazy especially if you have multiple input languages - it prints half of command in one language
Lanuchy Website
This tool allows you to launch any application by pressing ALT+SPACE key combination.
Also it allows to calculate stuff in the same small window
Process Explorer Website
The one and only task manager. Replaces default windows task manager or is used as standalone.
PROS:
- Shows processes in a tree as well as table - easy to see what had spawned what
- Allows to check signatures for applications with virustotal
Vivaldi Browser Website
I’ve been using Firefox as my browser - mymain need is in so called Tree style tab - where all tabs are shown on the side of screen.
PROS:
- Has kind of tree style tab out of the box
- Uses Chrome engine - full support Chrome plugins
- Has nice settings page
- Does not tracks you
CONS:
- Not always works with sites that have compatibility check with chrome or firefox browsers.
Frigate Website
My dual panel file manager. It was 10 years ago last time. But it’s still working and I’m almost happy with it.
PROS:
- Dual panel manager
- Support for multiple tabs
- Great feature that I haven’t seen anywhere - it shows recently created files with asterix. So just by glancing inside folder you can see what was added.
- Allows sorting and different kinds of viewing.
- Has a shortcut system - so you can label your favourite folders with key combination (CTRL+NUM)
- Has different color themes
- Can open different file types with built-in editors (F3). Works with big files (100GB)
CONS:
- Folder removal (sometimes) crashes if there are some NTFS handles. Need to open it in explorer and remove from here.
- Terrible performance when opening network drives that are not mounted
- Crashes when opening .7z format
- Send-to menu option does not work with current versions of windows
Everything Website
This is a great search tool for NTFS drives that does not need indexing in order to work. They say that they are just reading from NTFS table.
PROS:
- Instant search on the drive
- Support lots of regexes and patterns (path, type)
- allows to search within content as well
Snap Timer Website
Tiny utility that shows countdown on your taskbar.
AIMP Website
My go-to player for music. Kind of like winamp but with more features and sound settings.
PROS:
- Nice ui, skins support
- allows to put rating for songs, so you can remove them later
SumatraPDF Website
Pdf Reader. Replaces Adobe or other PDF readers.
PROS:
- Supports pdf and fb2
- Small and without fancy features which I would not need.
- Fast
- Main screen has thumbnails for most recent books opened
CONS:
- Somehow, it corrupts files which are sent for print. I’m not sure why, but at office i’m not able to make it print reliably, so i have to go back to Adobe Reader.