The following list covers a few of my favorite apps from over the years and mind you is in no particular order:<\/p>\n
1) Sonique – One of the most unique MP3 players of all time, this project was killed after being handed around between a number of companies including Lycos.\u00a0 You can download the last releases from the Museum of Sonique<\/a>. You can also download my pack of Sonique skins<\/a> or a cache of Sonique version 1.95<\/a>.<\/p>\n 2) Stardock Fences<\/a> – Take your desktop icons and clean them up into tiny squared off folders. I freaking love this utility because I “junk” stuff on my desktop and before I would pretty much monthly cycle everything onto a dated folder.\u00a0The fences solution is much better, organize stuff into tiny desktop windows.<\/p>\n 3) Vim <\/a>– This has been my favorite editor since … I don’t know, 2000? There is a great Visual Studio plugin<\/a> by @JaredPar<\/a> that lets you use Vim syntax in visual studio. There is also an open source version<\/a> that ships with most flavors of Unix but on Windows behaves a little strangely for my tastes. My keyboard requires a special function key to get to the insert key;\u00a0despite these challenges, I’m more productive in this editor than any other. The following shortcuts were enough to keep me a fanboi:<\/p>\n 4) Foobar 2000<\/a> – A very nice and minimalistic MP3 player.\u00a0 Indexes your library faster than anything else out there, loads and shuts down fast and cleanly too.<\/p>\n 5) VLC <\/a>– Not the best performance from a media player, but VLC plays pretty much anything you throw at it.\u00a0 It’s also a remarkably reliable transcoder.<\/p>\n\n