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Some friends have asked me to post my software recommendations and picks.

Setting up any computer make sure you have the following:

• Hardware firewall !!!!!!!!!!!
• Adobe Reader
• Adobe Flash
• Adobe Air
• Adobe Shockwave
• Microsoft SilverLight
• Apple ITunes (Comes with QuickTime Player)
• OpenOffice or Microsoft Office
• Anti-Virus (ClamAV is pretty good and Free)
• FireFox !!!!!! (Install this first)
• Instant Messaging Client  (Pidgin or Adium)
• RealPlayer ? (doesn’t seem to be as much demand for this anymore.)

Additional Programs

Windows

• Sandboxie.com
• Spy Bot Search and Destroy
• Adaware lavasoft.de
• Blink eeye.com
• Pop Peeper (Checks all email accounts for email including web mail accounts)
• CCleaner
• 7ZIP
• Audacity
• Notepad++
• Pidgin (Instant Messaging)
• ClamWin (Anti-Virus)
• PDFCreator
• Thunderbird (if you don’t have MS Office and need an email client)
• FileZilla (FTP Client)

Mac OSX and Windows

• Gimp
• Inkscape
• FreeMind
• OpenOffice
• FireFox
• Password Safe (set this up to run from a USB Key and make backups to your computers Hard Drive -  email me for help.)

MAC OSX

• Colloquy (IRC Chat)
• Adium (IM)
• Transmit (FTP Client)
• QuickSilver (Keyboard Shortcuts and more)
• ClamXav (Anti-Virus)
• Growl (System Notifications integrates with other products)
• TextWrangler (Text Editing)

IPhone

• Field Runner
• BookShelf ($10)
• NetNewsWire
• FS5 Hockey
• Enigmo
• JellyCar
• Stanza Book Reader (Free)
• Urban Spoon
• BigOven
• touchPhysics
• Enjoy Sudoku Daily
• EverNote
• Drinks Free
• Chesspuzzles

Developer Tools

• VIM
• SVN, Tortiose, Ankh
• NLog
• NUnit
• VNC, UltraVnc, RDP
• WinMerge