Links

A list of some of my favourite software. The links are sorted in reverse chronological order so the newest ones will always be at the top and the oldest (and most likely to be broken) at the bottom. I won't be checking for broken links regularly so if you notice one, please let me know. I may also delete links from this page when I get bored with them, so don't count on a link still being here the next time you're looking for it.

WinSplit Revolution	July, 2009
A handy window manager that lets you quickly tile and position windows. Great for large monitors. Install, copy folder, & uninstall original for portable application. Freeware.

PDF-XChange Viewer Free	October, 2008
A nice PDF viewer and one of the only free options for adding notes/markup to a PDF file. Available as a portable application. Freeware.

SciTE Text Editor	August, 2008
An excellent replacement for Notepad. Download & extract wscite*.zip for a portable application. Freeware.

Sumatra PDF	August, 2008
An amazingly fast and clean PDF file viewer. Download & extract the .zip version for a portable application. Freeware.

7-Zip	August, 2008
Excellent ZIP archive handler. Download & extract the .zip version for a portable application. Freeware.

FrostWire	August, 2008
An open-source peer-to-peer file sharing application. Many neat features. Install, copy folder, & uninstall original for portable application. Freeware.

Foobar2000	August, 2008
An excellent MP3 player! Tiny and fast. Install, copy folder, & uninstall original for portable application. Freeware.

Log Monitor 1.4.2	July, 2006
A powerful little folder monitoring utility that automatically performs actions when a file or folder changes. Freeware.

Firefox	July, 2004
Sick of all of IE's vulnerabilities? Me too. That's why I finally bit the bullet and switched to Firefox. It turned out to be a painless migration! (Some features I love: bookmark keywords and find-as-you-type.) Freeware.

OpenOffice.org	April, 2004
An open-source Office application. Spreadsheet, word processor, and presentation designer. Setup is kind of cumbersome but once it's installed it works great! Freeware.

PopTray	February, 2004
The best email-checker program available also happens to be open source! What more could you ask for? Freeware.

NetLogo	November, 2003
A simple and elegant individual-based modeling environment. Freeware.

Wikipedia	November, 2003
The free encyclopedia. Entries provided by the public. Good signal-to-noise ratio.

Borland C++ Compiler 5.5	May, 2001
Borland has released the latest release of their command-line compiler for free. It's not the full C++Builder but it's still a handy tool for building MS-Windows programs and DLLs. This link is a local copy (8.7MB) of the download available from Borland. Freeware.

Xnews Newsreader	May, 2001
A very good Usenet news client. Freeware.

GhostScript, GhostView, and GSview	March, 2000
An excellent Postscript interpreter for many platforms. View or print Postscript (`.ps`) files. Lets you search Postscript files for text and extract text to files (and many more features). Also supports most features of Adobe Acrobat (`.pdf`) documents. Freeware. Note: I recommend GSview v2.9 over later versions because v3+ added an annoying nagscreen.

TeraTerm Pro	1999
A good terminal program for Win9x. Can function as an Internet telnet client or stand-alone dial-up terminal program. Supports Zmodem transfers and a macro language. Very clean and efficient. Can be extended to support SSH security. Freeware.

Sheep vs. Gravity Screensaver	1999
A very entertaining screensaver for MS-Windows written by Russ Horton. Giggle maniacly as you wreak your revenge on those fluffy white sheep. Freeware.

WinBatch	1999
An excellent shareware scripting language for all Windows platforms. Very thorough control of all aspects of programs and the Windows interface. Excellent support and very regular (free) updates. Still more powerful than WSH.

MAME	1999
Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator - play all of your favorite classic arcade games with this free emulator available for many platforms! There are thousands of arcade titles available, including some of my favorites: 1943, Asteroids Deluxe, Mario Brothers, Star Wars, and even Tetris! Woo hoo! Browse their links to find the arcade games (ROMs).

EditWithNotepad.reg	1998
Windows 9x registry hack. Adds the command `Edit with Notepad` to right clicks in Explorer and makes it the default action for files with no other associations. Hasn't been tested but should work to just download it and double click on the file. Very handy. Found it in a Tips & Tricks file somewhere. Let me know if there are any problems.

Discounted Least Squares	1998
A DOS program I wrote to see how the concept of discounted least squares curve fitting [blok97b] could be implemented. If you're trying to fit some data to a curve give this a look. Basically, by rescaling the error estimates we can rework the curve fitting equations into a much simpler form.