| Title |
Type |
Description |
Link |
| BreezeBrowser |
Commercial |
Digital image archive manager: multilevel thumbnails, web publishing, EXIF and
IPTC support including powerful publishing templates |
http://www.breezesys.com/BreezeBrowser/ |
| Focus Magic |
Commercial |
Amazing filter (standalone application and Photoshop plugin) that deblurrs (adaptively deconvolves) an image |
http://www.focusmagic.com/ |
| IrfanView |
Freeware |
Graphic viewer, supports an extensive number of raster formats, directory browsing,
colormap manipulations, saves PNG/JPEG/GIF and many other formats |
http://www.irfanview.com/ |
| Jpegcrop |
Freeware |
Lossless JPEG transformations, including block-boundary cropping |
http://sylvana.net/jpegcrop/ |
| Neat Image |
Commercial |
Another amazing filter that adaptively denoises an image (e.g., statistical reduction of sensor noise) |
http://www.neatimage.com/ |
| Panorama Factory |
Commercial |
Stitches multiples rectilinear images into panoramas using cylindrical or spherical reprojection;
an excellent balance of fine tuning power and intelligent automation |
http://www.panoramafactory.com/ |
| Photoshop |
Commercial |
"The professional standard in desktop digital imaging" |
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ |
| POV-Ray |
Freeware |
Advanced ray tracing package including caustics and photon mapping |
http://www.povray.org/ |
| Title |
Type |
Description |
Link |
| Firefox |
Freeware |
Tab-based, modern web browser supporting an impressive array of plugins |
http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ |
| Free Agent |
Freeware |
Powerful GUI USENET news reader – article threading, multiple network processes (e.g.,
fetch articles while header lists are being updated |
http://www.forteinc.com/main/homepage.php |
| SecureCRT |
Shareware |
SSH client, port forwarding (including X11), compression, zmodem, scripting, multiple
display schemes |
http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/ |
| SecureFX |
Shareware |
sftp and ftp over ssh2 client, Explorer-like interface, drag and drop |
http://www.vandyke.com/products/securefx/ |
| VNC |
Freeware |
Virtual Network Computing – remote display system with clients and servers for numerous
platforms |
http://www.realvnc.com/ |
| Webcam32 |
Commercial |
Web cam services: HTTP server, FTP client, archiver, captioning, multiple simultaneous servers |
http://www.surveyor.com/index_webcam32.html |
| Title |
Type |
Description |
Link |
| ActivePerl |
Freeware |
Standard Perl for Windows |
http://www.activestate.com/ |
| AVG Free Edition Anti-Virus |
Freeware |
Virus protection with automatic Internet-based updates |
http://free.grisoft.com/freeweb.php/doc/2/ |
| Font Properties Extension |
Commercial (free Windows add-on) |
Adds a custom Explorer property sheet for TrueType fonts |
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/property/property.htm |
| Motorola Suite56 DSP Development Tools |
Freeware |
C compiler, linker, ASM, etc., for Motorola 56k DSPs |
No longer supported? |
| Nero |
Shareware |
CD burner |
http://www.nero.com/ |
| Sysinternals (various products) |
Freeware |
Powerful OS monitoring and debugging tools: TCP view, serial ports, processes, filesystem, ... |
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/ |
| UltraEdit |
Shareware |
Text editor (format conversions, powerful regexp, configurable syntax highlighting) |
http://www.ultraedit.com/ |
| VMWare Workstation |
Commercial |
Virtual Machine software for x86 (run various Linux and Windows VMs on one physical machine) |
http://www.vmware.com/ |
| WinZip |
Shareware |
GUI archive manager supporting many formats (zip, lha, Z, gz, tar, etc., etc.), shell
integration |
http://www.winzip.com/ |
Note: As of March, 2007, I no longer have a favorite PGP program to recommend. I had been a fan of the freeware MIT PGP, but it is out-of-date and no longer recommended for use by MIT.
Updated Thursday 30 August 2007.