Recommended software

We all know about Thunderbird and Firefox, and here are a few other excellent pieces of software I can recommend (some free, some not). See also the What we can do section for other software I use every day, and click here for the software used to create this website.

• EditPad Pro | www.editpadpro.com

  Superb little programmer's editor. Good customer service too.

• FinePrint and PDF Factory | www.fineprint.com

  I've been using this print management and PDF generator software for some time.

• FileZilla | filezilla-project.org

  Excellent free FTP client.

• FishEye | www.atlassian.com/software/fisheye

  Superb web-based repository browser for Subversion and others, from Australian firm Atlassian. Part of my everyday toolkit.

• Hypoxia | www.hypoxiaplayer.com

  Media player and server software for BlackBerry smart phones. I use it for streaming from my ReadyNas DNLA server.

• Media Monkey | www.mediamonkey.com

  Excellent free music manager and player.

• PaderSyncSSH and PaderSyncFM | www.pader-sync.com

  Handy SSH, FTP and SMB client tools for various smart phones. I use them on my BlackBerry.

• PuTTY | www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty

  A free implementation of Telnet and SSH. Part of my everyday toolkit.

• QuickBooks | quickbooks.intuit.co.uk

  Intuit's accounts software. I'm currently using Pro 2008 and it's very friendly and very easy to use.

• SmarterMail | www.smartertools.com

  Excellent mail server software for Windows, and the free edition is perfect for small businesses with some in-house technical know-how.

• TortoiseSVN | tortoisesvn.tigris.org

  Excellent GUI for the Subversion revision control system. It integrates with Windows Explorer, and is part of my everyday toolkit.

• TrueCrypt | www.truecrypt.org

  Free, multi-platform disk encryption software.