Get Stuff.
Players
- foobar2000
An advanced freeware audio player for the Windows platform. Some of the basic features include full unicode support, ReplayGain support and native support for several popular audio formats.
- Winamp
A graphical player for Windows. Comes in both freeware and commercial editions.
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CD / DVD / Video
- VLC
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
- VOBMerge
VOBMerge is a tool for merging (joining) several .vob files into one file. This is useful for seamless playback or editing of DVD video on your harddrive.
- VirtualdubMOD
VirtualDubMod is a unification of several popular modifications of the famous video editing software VirtualDub. Unification of three projects, VirtualDubMPeg2, VirtualDubOGM, VirtualDubAVS and more.
- SUPER
An all-in-one video converter frontend for FFmpeg, MEncoder, MPlayer, x264, mppenc, ffmpeg2theora & the theora/vorbis RealProducer plug-in. Luckily their software is easier to use than their website. To get the file scroll to the bottom of the first page and click "Start Downloading Super". Then click on "download and use" amidst the red text. Scroll to the bottom of this page and click on "Download SUPER setup file".
- DAEMON Tools
Enables you to use your CD/DVD images as if they were already burned to CD/DVD.
- bin2iso
Converts RAW format (.bin) files to ISO/WAV format. Released July 25, 1999.
- bin2iso shell integration
.reg file which will allow you to right click on a .cue to convert an image.
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SFV / MD5
- ilSFV
A tribute to hkSFV which mimics the functionality and UI. Totally free and only half the crashes.
- hkSFV
hkSFV is unfortunately no longer developed, but it's still pretty good. Despite its name it also does MD5.
- WIN-SFV32 v1.1a (EXE)
One of the original Windows SFV file creation/verification utility. This program is out of date; it's linked here for reference.
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Other Utilities
- AVG Free
AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition.
- 7-zip
Freeware file archiver which can pack 7z, zip, gzip, bzip2 and tar and unpack just about anything you'd want to including RAR and ISO.
- UltraEdit
Commercial software I've used for close to 10 years now. Great for programming, hex editing, macros, and general text editing. Honestly worth every penny. There's a similar freeware program called Notepad++, however I prefer UltraEdit.
- PuTTY
A freeware implementation of Telnet and SSH for Win32 and Unix platforms.
- FlashFXP
Commercial FTP client. I should probably revist the freeware FileZilla client but FlashFXP did a lot more at the time I started using it than FileZilla did.
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Programming / Design
- Visual Studio and SQL Server 2008 Express
The free editions of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
- TortoiseSVN
TortoiseSVN provides a nice and easy user interface for Subversion version control systems.
- TestDriven.NET
TestDriven.Net makes it easy to run unit tests anywhere in your Visual Studio solutions. It supports all versions of Microsoft Visual Studio. Includes NUnit and NCover.
- NAnt
Free .NET build tool.
- CruiseControl.NET
CruiseControl.NET is an automated continuous integration server.
- Sandcastle Help File Builder
Free graphical frontend for Microsoft Sandcastle similar in look-and-feel to NDoc. Creates a variety of documentation formats including CHM and HTML.
- GhostDoc
GhostDoc is a free add-in for Visual Studio that automatically generates XML documentation comments for C#. Either by using existing documentation inherited from base classes or implemented interfaces, or by deducing comments from name and type of methods, properties or parameters.
- ReSharper
A must-have productivity tool for .NET developers. Fully integrates with Visual Studio to extend functionality. ReSharper provides solution-wide error highlighting on the fly, instant solutions for found errors, advanced code refactorings, superior unit testing tools, handy navigation and search features, code formatting and cleanup, automatic code generation and templates, and a lot more productivity features for C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, XML, and XAML. Commercial.
- InnoSetup
Inno Setup is a free installer for Windows programs. First introduced in 1997, Inno Setup today rivals and even surpasses many commercial installers in feature set and stability.
- Microangelo
An icon editor that creates and edits icons for all Windows platforms.
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Microsoft SDK's
- Microsoft Windows SDK for Windows 7 and .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
Provides documentation, samples, header files, libraries, and tools designed to help you develop Windows applications using both native (Win32) and managed (.NET Framework) technologies.
- .NET 2.0 SDK (x86)
Tools, documentation and samples developers need to write, build, test, and deploy .NET Framework applications on x86 platforms.
- .NET 2.0 SDK (x64)
Tools, documentation and samples developers need to write, build, test, and deploy .NET Framework applications on x64 platforms.
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