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  Kick Ass Vim

  Enhancements to Vim on Windows including an 'Edit with Vim' right click menu and a batch file for launching GVim. Both tools maintain a single instance of GVim and open documents in new tabs.

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  Exuberant Ctags

  Exuberant Ctags is a multilanguage implementation of Ctags. Ctags generates an index (or tag) file of language objects found in source files that allows these items to be quickly and easily located by a text editor or other utility. A tag signifies a language object for which an index entry is available (or, alternatively, the index entry created f... More information

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  Xnews

  Xnews is a free Usenet newsreader for Windows.

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  Active Perl Community Edition

  ActivePerl is the leading commercial-grade distribution of the open source Perl scripting language. Download ActivePerl Community Edition free binaries for your development projects and internal deployments. | Please install with chocolatey (http://nuget.org/List/Packages/chocolatey).

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  StrawberryPerl

  Strawberry Perl is a binary distribution of Perl for the Windows operating system. It includes a bundled compiler and pre-installed modules that offer the ability to install XS CPAN modules directly from CPAN.

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  Foxit Reader

  Foxit Reader: The Best PDF Reader. With Foxit Reader you can read and annotate PDF documents and fill out PDF forms. | Please install with chocolatey (http://nuget.org/List/Packages/chocolatey).

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  WinSCP

  WinSCP is an open source free SFTP client, SCP client, FTPS client and FTP client for Windows. Its main function is file transfer between a local and a remote computer. Beyond this, WinSCP offers scripting and basic file manager functionality.

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  FastStone Viewer

  FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, retouching and color adjustments.

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  Evernote

  EverNote for Windows is an intuitive note management application that offers you a single place for the organization, easy input and quick retrieval of all types of notes and clippings.

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  IrfanView

  IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows.

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  Picasa

  Picasa is Google's free desktop photo management application. Picasa makes it really simple to take photos from your desktop and publish them online for others to see.

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  SQLite

  This package installs the DLL for the SQLite SQL database engine in your user path. SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. | Please install with chocolatey (http://nuget.org/List/Packages/chocolatey).

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  P4Merge, the Perforce Visual Merge Tool

  P4Merge is an excellent, free diff and merge tool. Perforce Visual Merge and Diff Tools provide a unique perspective into the context in which change happens. | Please install with chocolatey (http://nuget.org/List/Packages/chocolatey).

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  Mp3tag

  Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of common audio formats where it supports ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags.

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  MongoDB

  MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance, open source NoSQL database written in C++. This package installs MongoDB as a Windows service and binds to localhost. Type mongo at a command prompt to use the interactive, administrative shell. A batch script, MongoRotateLogs.bat, is included for convenient log rotation.

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  Pidgin

  Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. Pidgin is a GTK+ instant messaging application for Windows and Unix. It supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, QQ, SILC, SIMPLE and more. See http://pidgin.im/about for more information.

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  ILSpy

  ILSpy is the open-source .NET assembly browser and decompiler.

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  Growl For Windows

  Growl for Windows is a Windows-compatible version of Growl, a notification system for Mac OS X. Growl lets you know when things happen. Files finished downloading, friends came online, new email has arrived - Growl can let you know when any event occurs with a subtle notification. The rest of the time, Growl stays out of your way. | Please ... More information

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  Console devel

  This is a development branch of Console by Marko Bozikovic (http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/). Console-devel adds a "Run Console" option to Explorer context menu, the ability to maintain a single instance of Console and the option to reuse open tabs to the core behavior of Console2.

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  Sublime Text 2

  Sublime Text 2 is a sophisticated text editor for code, html and prose. You'll love the slick user interface and extraordinary features. Sublime Text may be downloaded and evaluated for free, however a license must be purchased for continued use. This brings the Sublime Text portable version to your system

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  Total Command Console

  TCC/LE is a basic Windows command shell (formerly known as 4NT). TCC/LE is a replacement for the CMD command line (the default Windows command prompt). TCC/LE is a superset of CMD, with 111 internal commands (CMD has fewer than 40) and 240 internal variables and functions, and hundreds of enhancements to existing CMD commands. TCC/LE works with you... More information

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  Ack!

  ack is a tool like grep, designed for programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code. ack is written purely in Perl, and takes advantage of the power of Perl's regular expressions. | Please install with chocolatey (http://nuget.org/List/Packages/chocolatey).

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  TortoiseGit

  TortoiseGit is the coolest Interface to (Git) Version Control. It is a port of TortoiseSVN for Git. TortoiseGit supports you with regular tasks, such as committing, showing logs, diffing two versions, creating branches and tags, creating patches and so on. | Please install with chocolatey (http://nuget.org/List/Packages/chocolatey).

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  PomoTime

  PomoTime is a small and easy to use Windows application that can come in handy for people that use the Pomodoro Technique. The Pomodoro Technique is an easy and effective method to focus on your job, manage interruptions and increase productivity.

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  IcoFx

  IcoFX is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. With IcoFX you can extract icons from other files, including Windows Vista and Windows 7 files. You can easily work with multiple files using the batch processing capability of IcoFX.

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  ANSICON

  ANSICON provides ANSI escape sequences for Windows console programs. It provides much the same functionality as `ANSI.SYS' does for MS-DOS.

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  KatMouse

  Freeing mouse wheel scrolling from the keyboard focus! The prime purpose of the KatMouse utility is to enhance the functionality of mice with a scroll wheel, offering 'universal' scrolling: moving the mouse wheel will scroll the window directly beneath the mouse cursor (not the one with the keyboard focus, which is default on Windows OSes). This is... More information

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  Alan Stevens' Windows Utilities

  These are the utilities I install on a fresh Windows dev machine. I recommend you set a user environment variable of "chocolatey_bin_root" with a value of "bin" or "tools" etc. This prevents packages like Ruby from installing in the root of C:. The easiest way to set chocolatey_bin_root is to execute cinst binroot, then open a new con... More information

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  Wget

  GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals etc. GNU Wget has many features to make retrieving large files or mirroring entire web or FTP sites easy. | Please in... More information

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  Alan Stevens' preferred Visual Studio 2010 extensions

  These are the Visual Studio 2010 extensions I install by default. gister EditorConfig nuget.tools ProPowerTools PowerCommands VSCommands VsVim GitSccProvider PerfWatson GitSccProvider DevColor SpellChecker ThemeManager WebStandardsUpdate WebEssentials T... More information

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  Alan Stevens' preferred Visual Studio 2012 extensions

  These are the Visual Studio 2012 extensions I install by default. Gister EditorConfig NuGet PowerCommands VsVim Web Essentials ColorThemeEditor GitSccProvider EfPowerTools VsCommands SpellChecker DevColor TwitterBootstrapMvc MvcTwitterBootstrap Web Workbench ... More information

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  Alan Stevens' Windows VM Utilities

  These are the utilities I install on a fresh Windows dev virtual machine. I recommend you set a user environment variable of "chocolatey_bin_root" with a value of "bin" or "tools" etc. This prevents packages like Ruby from installing in the root of C:. The easiest way to set chocolatey_bin_root is to execute cinst binroot, then open a... More information

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  dotPeek

  dotPeek is a new free .NET decompiler from JetBrains, the makers of ReSharper, dotTrace, and dotCover for .NET developers.

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  CmdAliases

  This package installs a batch file in command proccessor autorun which uses DOSKey to implement support for command macros, a simple text-substitution facility that operate like command line aliases in other environments. Review and edit %userprofile%\aliases.bat to customize the macros.

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  Executor

  Executor is a multi purpose launcher and a more advanced and customizable version of windows run. The program originated as I was sick of spending too much time searching for programs through my ever growing windows start-menu, and also I missed a tool that could ease and optimize my daily work flow. There was of course already programs like this a... More information

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  Dark Room

  Dark Room is a clone of the original WriteRoom that is an OS X (tiger) exclusive application. It is a child of necessity, as there were no viable alternatives in Windows to produce the same behavior. | Please install with chocolatey (http://nuget.org/List/Packages/chocolatey).

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  GnuWin

  The GnuWin project provides Win32-versions of GNU tools, or tools with a similar open source licence. The ports are native ports, that is they rely only on libraries provided with any standard 32-bits MS-Windows operating system. Unlike CygWin or Msys, native ports do not rely on some kind of Unix emulation, so that there is no need to install addi... More information

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  Kick Ass Console

  An opinionated configuration of console-devel using the ir_black color scheme

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  Bin Root

  Set's the chocolatey_bin_root environment variable to a default value of 'bin' if not already set. This allows packages such as Ruby, Python etc. to install in \bin instead of the system root.