Win Apps I Use Jul 2014

July 15, 2014

9 min. read

This post will be constantly updated. More or less a cleanup and a showoff.

Contents

Setup

Hardware: Alienware X51 R2

  • CPU: i7 4770
  • RAM: 16GB
  • Storage: 2TB HD
  • GPU: GTX 760 Ti with 2GB GDDR5
  • Additionally, Xbox 360 Controller for PC

OS: Windows 8.1 English (upgraded free from Windows 8 English)

Apps

I don’t use them all regularly. I put them here only to back up the app list, that’s all. I may delete them afterwards.

Bought

All of them are bought by me. I don’t use pirate software.

  1. 1Password
  2. Bins
    • Taskbar tweak
      • Can merge icons into one icon.
      • Can create blank icons so can move icons to the centre of the taskbar.
  3. Bitdefender Total Security 1 Year Subscription
  4. Breevy
    • Text expander
    • Can read Mac app TextExpander’s data.
  5. CintaNotes Pro
    • Sync with Simplenote
  6. DisplayFusion
    • Window manager
    • Makes windows sticky
  7. Divvy
  8. doubleTwist AirPlay Recorder
    • It turns out that I didn’t use it at all
  9. Office 365 University Four Year Subscription
    • I’ll feel it absurd that most Chinese pirate Microsoft Office; well, if them buy Mac, iWork is free and good to use; if all of them notice this issue, Office will not be the all industry standard as well as pirate Office as the all industry standard; so given the amount of Chinese Office users (most of them pirate), Chinese pirating Office is a way to keep Microsoft Office survive in the world against its competitors… To be honest, you, especially programmers, can say Office has a long history has many professional features that are unknown to ordinary people. Come out, it’s an ordinary people’s world! A product doesn’t make features simple, easy, accessible and friendly, it doesn’t deserve to survive. And Office is so uncomfortable and least enjoyable for me to use! Though, I still pay for it!
  10. Xunlei platinum 迅雷白金客户端…
  11. Nuance OmniPage 18
    • Oh, Nuance’s Dragon Dictate for Mac is not good…
  12. SharedMouse Standard Edition
    • I’ll say it’s better than free opensource Synergy; but Synergy is interesting because it can connect to jailbroken iOS (wow!
  13. Snagit 11
    • Screen capture / screenshot app; can capture window element
  14. Stardock Decor8
    • Win 8 start screen customisation
  15. Stata 13 Student Edition
  16. Sublime Text 3
  17. Total Commander x64

Free

All of them are freeware for personal use.

  1. 7-Zip
  2. AutoHotkey
  3. BitTorrent Sync
    • It doesn’t upload your files to the cloud/server; Dropbox does
  4. Cygwin
    • To show installed Cygwin package, run cygcheck -c; notably I installed aria2, base-cygwin, bash, bzip2, coreutils, cygwin, grep, gzip and sed; I’m not a expert so I don’t know the dependencies among them, what I can remember is that I installed Cygwin only to use aria2.
  5. Dexpot (free version)
    • Virtual desktop
  6. Ditto
    • Clipboard manager
  7. Dropbox
    • Slower than BitTorrent Sync
  8. Evernote
  9. Everything
  10. FluffyApp
    • CloudApp app
  11. foorbar2000
  12. Google Chrome
  13. IrfanView
    • image viewer; for GIF
  14. iTunes
  15. John’s Background Switcher
  16. Listary (free version)
    • use only keyboard for Windows Explorer
  17. MacType
    • a Chinese font rendering engine based on a Japanese project
    • You can get best setting files at 极限社区; I have two accounts at the forum before, one of them bought from Taobao, but now I forgot the password and the account name; damn, why the forum guys keep the settings as a secret? I believe the best ever original MacType setting is out of ordinary people’s reach; so I will definitely pay somebody who can get (Chinese and English) font rendering perfected on my Win computer, but I cannot find such guy online :(
  18. Firefox
  19. MPC-BE
  20. Office Tab (trial; and I nenver use it since installed)
  21. paint.net 4
  22. PDF-XChange Editor (free version)
  23. PhraseExpress
    • free text expander; not sure why it is still here; will decide later to delete it or not
  24. Picasa 3
    • image viewer only; it may corrupt your image attached information, like tag and name tag, so my advice is not to use it to manage images.
  25. PureText
    • plain paste
  26. SharpKeys
    • Key remapping
  27. Skitch
  28. Spotify (I hold no subscription now)
    • Previously I got 4.99/mo through UNiDAYS and then I stop listening music for two months or so. Then thinking it a waste of money, so I cancelled it but discovered later I can’t get 4.99/mo any more which now I consider a good price. Kinda regret, anyway when I get my first salary, I’d like to pay 9.99/mo for it.
  29. TeraCopy
    • Copy large files faster; slower if files are small
  30. TeX Live 2013
    • MacTeX is already 2014. Not sure about Win one, anyway I just use Win for these days; will update if there are new and I have chance
  31. 欧路词典
    • I do have paid version (on Mac only? Not sure…); but free version is definitely enough
  32. 百度云同步盘
    • 2TB, are you kidding?

Companion Apps

  1. Actions Server
  2. Air Video Server HD
  1. Battle.net (EU)
  2. Microsoft Games for Windows - LIVE
  3. Nvidia GeForce Experience (UK)
  4. Origin (UK)
  5. Steam
  6. Uplay
    • A very buggy game manager compared to Steam, Battle, and Origin :(

Other

  1. Adobe Flash Player
  2. Java 7
  3. Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable
    • What the hell! Can’t Microsoft make them into one?!
    • 2005
    • 2005 x64
    • 2008 x64
    • 2008 x86 9.0.21022
    • 2008 x86 9.0.30729.17
    • 2010 x64
    • 2010 x86
    • 2012 x64
    • 2012 x86
  4. Online Banking Internet Explorer Plugins
  5. Python 2.7.6

Bridging Win and Mac

Essential Apps

  1. 1Password, 1Password
  2. Bins, Mac’s command to add a spacer refer to search results of ‘spacer’ in post
  3. Bitdefender Total Security, Little Snitch
  4. Breevy, TextExpander
  5. CintaNotes Pro, nvALT
  6. DisplayFusion, many apps (BetterSnapTool; Moom; Afloat)
  7. (Divvy, Divvy)
  8. Office, Office & iWork
  9. Xunlei, Xunlei
  10. Nuance OmniPage 18, Prizmo for Mac
  11. SharedMouse, SharedMouse
  12. Snagit, Snagit
  13. Stardock Decor8, Mac has command to tweak BW/coloured and blurring of Launchpad
  14. Sublime Text 3, Sublime Text 3
  15. Total Commander, Path Finder
  16. 7-Zip, BetterZip
  17. AutoHotkey, Keyboard Maestro
  18. BitTorrent Sync, BitTorrent Sync
  19. Cygwin, Homebrew and Cakebrew
  20. Dexpot, OS X’s Mission Control Spaces
  21. Ditto, Alfred Powerpack’s clipboard feature
  22. Dropbox, Dropbox
  23. Evernote, Evernote
  24. Everything, Find Any File and OS X’s Spotlight
    • Everything and Find Any File only index filename; Spotlight indexes filename and content; by the way, Path Finder’s search feature is also very good.
    • The above are system wide file searching. In reality, we may only search files we put in a database, e.g. using DEVONthink, or just notes, e.g. Evernote. There are too many cases of specified searching so I won’t list them all here.
  25. FluffyApp, CloudApp for Mac
  26. foorbar2000, iTunes
  27. IrfanView and Picasa 3, OS X’s Quick Look triggered by Space key
  28. John’s Background Switcher, none
  29. Listary, none
  30. MPC-BE, Movist
  31. paint.net 4, Pixelmator
  32. PDF-XChange Editor, Skim; more 16th reply
  33. PureText, Opt-Shift-Cmd-V
  34. SharpKeys, Seil and Karabiner
  35. Skitch, Skitch
  36. Spotify, Spotify
  37. TeraCopy, none
  38. TeX Live 2013, MacTeX 2014
    • TeX Live 2014 will be released in this month
  39. 欧路词典, 欧路词典
  40. Wox, Alfred

Games

  • I don’t play them all. I’ll say the only game I have played (I’m not saying playing a lot) is Diablo III Original. And among the games I played (actually one, doing this will show accuracy), the ones I played a lot is Diablo III Original. If I discovered the real money auction house earlier, I would have had all my characters upgraded to Lv. 60 earlier.
  • I didn’t play games a lot since the year before leaving junior school; it’s a makeup to the old times; hopefully, I will play games for wise purpose.
  • The dark side: I bought the games because I want them available for me though I may not even play them at all.

  • Some games I bought but not installed on x51 because I don’t like them after purchase. I put them here only to back up the game list, that’s all. I may delete them afterwards.

  • Assassin’S Creed III
  • Batman Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition
  • Batman Arkham City GOTY
  • Diablo III Original
  • Diablo III Reaper of Souls
    • Paragon Lv. 6
    • Barbarian Lv. 67
    • Crusader Lv. 56
    • Demon Hunter Lv. 60
    • Monk Lv. 60
    • Witch Doctor Lv. 60
    • Wizard Lv. 60
  • DmC Devil May Cry
  • Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City
    • I couldn’t open the game and Steam didn’t refund, damn!
  • Mass Effect 3
  • Might & Magic Heroes VI
    • Chinese version is much cheapter than English one, sad…
  • Naruto Shippuden - Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 Full Brust
  • The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
  • The Sims 3
  • Tomb Raider 2013

Games Wishlist

  • Grand Theft Auto V PC Version
  • The Sims 4
  • 信長の野望シリーズ
    • I did play pirate versions before; hope I will learn Japanese and pay Japan a visit someday
  • Some says PC games are for gays; okay… I’ll buy PS4, XBOX, etc. game systems someday and hopefully play the games wisely…

Win positioning

网上流传：

  • Win 资本主义
  • OS X 帝国主义
  • Linux 共产主义

但我觉得：

  • Win 共产主义 盗版
  • OS X 资本主义；对于系统本身，设计者考虑很周全 +1；完善的正版制度，吸引开发者开发出 GUI 友好且有时相对高效的 apps
  • Linux 共济会好吗…

反正我作为非程序员，只稍系统地美化过 Win, 中二地 OS 去 GUI 化地用过 Arch Linux (中二程度有限和智商有限，不能玩到 Gentoo 和 Linux From Scratch, 抱歉…), 大量地买过 OS X apps 地正在用着 OS X, 适量地买过 Win apps 和游戏地用过 Win；综上，我 troll level -like. 但是我没觉得 Mac 有优越到非得干死所有敌人的地步，因为我用 Linux 时就是觉得 Linux 和 GNU Project 有优越到尤其要干死 Mac 的地步，黑黑得白，负负得正，所以我是中立的，现在如果看见果粉欺负微软用户我仍然要上去去打脸的，嗯。OS 前后顺序: Win XP - Win Vista 台式 & Win Vista (正版; 第一个笔记本大一才有有木有，世界第一个超级本, Dell Adamo; 所以寝室全升了 Win 7 时我坚守 Vista) - Win 7 - Ubuntu - Arch Linux (其间用过 Gnome, XFCE, LXDE, KDE, 最后还是 Openbox 符合中二特质) - Win 8 - 第二台笔记本 rmbp with OS X Mountain Lion - OS X Mavericks - 买了 Alienware X51，第一台自己的台式有米有，升了 Win 8.1 - 有段时间是 rmbp 和 x51 双开，但是台式噪音在看文献时始终忍不了，之后大段是单开，现在 resit Stata essay 又要双开了（真丢脸。。。

额，再提一下，我有个爱好就是买软件（话外音：“纯装b嘛明明可以不花钱为什么要装大款”; 好吧我不需要通过买软件来… u know），而且觉得软件作为工具，跟其他吃的穿的住的比，真的是好便宜… 买那些的人才是有钱人好嘛；那些东西我在不确定其事实上的社会心理功用前，我都不舍花钱买好嘛

我真的情商为负…

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