Introduction This site contains galleries of my personal work that I have done. I've had included some photography, digital art, and websites designs. There is also a wallpaper section, containing wallpapers I have done that you may freely download and use on your desktop.
I'm a developer by profession and for fun, I have written tutorials and included a "Code Snippets" section for you to look at. Never know, you may find something useful! |
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My Favourite Applications |
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Saturday, 28 June 2008 10:54 |
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I decided to compile a page of my favourite applications I use on Ubuntu or Windows, with my rating out of five. I'm sticking to free open source applications - so why not try 'em out? 
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| Songbird is a Firefox clone, but instead of just using it to browse the internet you can play and search for music on-line or on your local pc
I used to use Winamp, and although Winamp was a good piece of software - they had started to add things like adverts and was becoming a bit bloated. Songbird seem to pretty much do everything that Winamp did - but better. | Mozilla Firefox 3, in my opinion the best browser out there. I'm using it on Ubuntu and on my Windows Vista machine. Run well and I've never had a problem with it. Can take up a bit of memory, but I don't install many plugins / add-ons, so my installation runs fine.
I would definitely recommend it! 
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| Notepadd++ is a great little replacement for any other text-editor. I've been using it for about a year now and am very happy with it.
Sometime I don't want to use Visual Studio, and Notepad++ offers a nice alternative, and I can configure it to display code in the same colour codes as Visual Studio, get my styler.xml file here.
I would recommend trying this out. The only thing that could really be improved so far is the intellisense - although the latest version (version 5), seems to have much better handling of the intellisense. | I used to use Adobe Photoshop a lot (and still do), but I can't use Photoshop on all my PCs and certainly not on my Ubuntu based laptop.
So instead of using Photoshop for image and photo editing, I use The Gimp. A good little program, I'm not quite used to the interface yet. As a M$ Windows user and a Photoshop user for many years, I'm used to different menu layouts. Aside from that I find The Gimp feature rich and a very useful program.
Saying that about the menu layouts, you can get a Gimpshop mod for The Gimp, which converts the menus to a Photoshop Layout. I've tried this a couple of time with varying success (didn't work too well on my work XP machine). You can downloadit at gimpshop.com. | | | | | | |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 18 July 2008 20:33 )
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