The Staff at Darkside_RG have compiled a list of recommended software we have had the pleasure of using and abusing.


Web/Network Applications=
Firefox, Thunderbird, Opera, Trillian, Gaim, Adium, Google Mail, MSN Live Messenger, POPpeeper, gMail, FileZilla, TcpView, AnalogX NetStatLive, Ntop, Netstat, Mutt, CenterIM, Wget, Links, Snownews


Firefox Addons=
AdBlock, Noscript, All-In-One Sidebar, AutoHide, ChatZilla, CoLT, Download Statusbar, DownloadHelper, Personal Menu, SearchWith, Statusbar Clock, Forecastfox, Shazou, Ebay Negs, Foxmarks, Tab mix plus, MR Tech’s Local Install


Graphics/Photo Applications=
Bryce, DAZ Studio, Irfanview, Painter7, Adobe Photoshop, Fireworks, Gimp, 3D Studio Max, Blender, Paint.net, GIF Movie Gear, Cinema 4D, Maya, Jasc Paint Shop Pro 9 + Animation Shop, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 12, XAT Image Optimizer, Paint.net, Lightwave, Terragen,


Security & Privacy Applications=
Ashampoo firewall, Zonealarm, Nod32, Avira Antivir, AVG, Clamav, SpywareBlaster, Adaware, Hijack This, CCleaner, Adblock Plus, Spybot, Sygate, Adaware, SpywareBlaster, Ashampoo Winoptimiser, Wireshark, SSH, Putty, Tor, PGP, Snort, Rootkit Hunter, chkrootkit, tcpdump, iptables, pf, ipfw, Tripwire, Clam AV, Bastille,


System Utilities=
Acronis , WinRAR, Everest, Directory Opus, OO Defrag, AMP FontViewer, Process Explorer, VB.Net, cpu-z & gpu-z, Driver Magician, Speedfan, Norton Ghost, Nero 6, Acronis, Winternals Administrator's Pak, WinZip, Blocklist Manager, rsync, vim, screen, cron, man, cat, less, perl, htop, grep, sed & awk, tail, logcheck, lsof, bzip


Website management=
Coffeecup HTML Editor, Coffecup Direct FTP, PSPad, SSH Secure Shell

FTP=
FTP: Ipswitch WS FTP Pro, Cute FTP Pro, Filezilla, sftp

Book Converters=
Text to PDB, TL-PDB, ABC Lit, C lit

Newsgroups=
NewsLeecher, QuickPar, Slrn, Par2repair, Unrar



If you have any questions regarding the above software, please post your question in the Technical Support Forum found here