Windows 7, Best apps & Tools

Here is a list of the 'best' apps and tools I have settled on for a Windows 7 environment. Free unless marked with "$$$".

• Google Chrome
• Dropbox
• Picasa
• VLC
• Office 2010 - $$$
• uTorrent
• Fastone Capture
• TrueCrypt
• Calibre
• PyScripter
• Pycharm - $$$
• Reaper
• Mixcraft
• iTunes
• Evernote - $$$ but one can run a free version
• Sketchup
• Teamviewer
• Lastpass
• Sysinternal tools from Microsoft

Linux Mint

Linux Mint is a great development platform. Ubuntu based and easily managed. Adding a second internal HD for the Linux installation to a Lenovo T510 with 8GB of memory allows on to easily boot between Windows 7 and Linux.

If it was not for Reaper (great DAW) I would probably convert to Linux.

MongoDB Training

Great FREE MongoDB training @ https://education.10gen.com

You may need to wait until the specific course you want is scheduled but it is worth the wait.
Quality training for the right price.

A free into to MongoDB is available in the following ebook:
http://openmymind.net/2011/3/28/The-Little-MongoDB-Book/

Read about PyMongo if you want to use MongoDB with Python.

Upgrade Pycharm

To Upgrade Pycharm running on Linux Mint:

$ su
# /opt/pycharm-2.7.1/bin/pycharm.sh

follow the prompts from Pycharm to do the patch based upgrade
exit Pycharm

# chmod 755 /opt/pycharm-2.7.1/bin/pycharm.sh

Hmm looks like other executables in the bin dir may also need mode changes so non-root account can execute them.