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14 Jun, 2009

Ins and Outs

Posted by: sharjeel In: carputer| nerds| technology

Some recent ins and outs of my daily tech-life:

Windows 7 is in - XP and Mac OS X*  are out
Ubuntu Server is in - Fedora and RedHat are out

Flock & Chrome are in - Firefox & Safari 4 are out
Postbox is in - Thunderbird is out
XChat2 is in - mIRC is out
MSN Messenger stays in due to locked contacts :(
Google Talk: Always in :)

Google Desktop is in - Yahoo Gadgets and Launchy are out
TrueCrypt is in - Other File encryption tools are out
VLCPlayer & Foobar2000 are in - WMPlayer & KLite are out
GIMP is in - Photoshop is out (I'm a thrifty developer)

Dropbox would so be in - Manual rsync scripts would be out

Console2 is in - Standard Command Prompt is out
IPython is in - Bash is (almost) out
GNUWin32 is in - Cygwin is out

Aptana is in - Standard Eclipse is out
Notepad++ is in - Notepad is out
Emacs is in - Vim is out
PyScripter is in - Other Python only IDEs are out
Putty connection manager is in - PuttyTabs is out

Python, C, C++ are in - Java, PHP are out
NginX is in - Apache2 is out

Mobile:
Windows Mobile 6.1 are in - WM6.0 and 5.x are out
WM 6.5 would soon be in - iPhone, Blackberry & Symbian probably will never make it! Android may come under consideration.
Windows Mobile Device Center is in - ActiveSync is out
HTC Touch Pro would soon be in - TyTN II would be out
TouchFlo 3D is in - Standard Today is out
Opera Mobile is in - Opera Mini is out
Skype & Windows Messenger are in - Fring is out

Desktop Linux box:
Ubuntu 9 is in - 8.04 LTS is out
KDE4.2 is in - GNome & KDE 3.x are out

Carputer:
Ubuntu is in - XP is out
Gnome is in - KDE is out
Hildon is in - RoadRunner is out
Android Linux apps would soon be in -
Microcontrolled power control is in - Direct switches are out
SAIMA (Sharjeel's Artificially Intelligent Machine for Automation) is in - SMSLib is out

* I tried Mac-OS-X for a while. Loved it for awesome user interface, bundled out of the box applications but at the same time hated it for poor keyboard shortcuts and hardware restrictions. I would have switched but Microsoft did a REALLY good job at Win7.

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