Tablet PC

I use my Tablet PC for about 2 hours a day, it’s quite important to me.

Hardware

• 1.1 GHz processor
• 1.5 GB memory
• 40 MB hard disks, one backs up to the other every night using a robocopy script, the scripts also does a backup of the SQL server databases.
• 100Mb wired network connection to the hub
• 802.11b wireless
• Bluetooth
• HP Docking station, with interal CD drive

Core software:

• Dot net framework 1.1 and 2
• Windows Tablet PC edition 2005 Firewall
• Maxthon Browser (free), the best browser,  see my other posts
• Skype (free)
• Synergy (free), allows me to use desktop keyboard and mouse to control the Tablet when I don’t want to use RDP connections
• Microsoft desktop search, and Adobe iFilter
• DAEMON tools virtual CD drive (free),  for mounting all of those MSDN ISO images!
• WinDirStat (free) to keep an eye on my hard disk useage
• VMWare Workstation v5.5
• FoxIT PDF reader (free) , my pain PDF reader, very quick
• Adobe Acrobat 6, for printing to PDF and PDF document composition
• Adobe Acrobat Reader 7 (free), for when FoxIT PDF reader has a problem
• HP officejet d series Corporate Driver (free), Windows 2003 compatible driver for D125xi Printer/Scanner
• Microsoft ActiveSync (free), synch to Windows Mobile/SmartPhone (not currently used)
• Palm Desktop and Hotsync (free), for integration with Treo 650
• WinZip, compression and archive manager
• Robocopy (free), command line utility that I use for all disk synchronisation and backup
• Process Explorer (free), task manager on steroids
• Sun’s JVM (free), Java Virtual machine
• Microsoft Reader (free), eBook reader
• Clipname (free), explorer context menu that places URL for any file or directory that is right clicked, supports encoding methods for different applications
• LiveMeeting Console

Security

• McAfee VirusScan Enterprise 7
• Windows XP SP2 Firewall (free)
• Microsoft Defender (free) – anti-spyware
• Maxthon (free). Ad, popup and everything else blocking
• Firefox (free), for comparison with IE and Maxthon

Telephone, Audio, Music and Video, TV

• Windows media player 10 (free), mainly for Video, RIPing and Creating CDs
• DivX player
• Real player (free), because the BBC use it for their radio programmes
• Skype (free), for calls to international land-lines and for recording conference calls. I use the phone for everything else
• Quicktime (free) because my camera produces quicktime movies and I download some

Pictures, images, scanning etc:

• Microsoft Flash (free) for screen captures and simple image editing, scale, crop, format conversion etc,  it shipped with HTML Help a long time ago
• Paint.NET (free) for more complex image editing
• PaperPort Pro for scanning of all of my paper, it really is a great product
• Artrage art package
• MapPoint Europe 2004

Notes and research

• eWallet for everything I need to remember, cards, licence keys, cars etc etc.  Syncs with my Tablet and my Treo 650
• OneNote 2007 beta for all other types of Notes and records
• Notepad 2 (free), instead of Notepad
• NetSnippets, integrated with Maxthon my main browser for capturing and storing web pages

Authoring:

• Word 2007 beta
• Powerpoint 2007 beta
• Excel 2003 beta
• Blogjet for blog postings
• Camtasia Studio for multi-media authoring, screencasts, videos etc
• MindManager X5 for most of my idea generation and meeting notes
• CmapTools (free) concept map drawing software
• OpenOffice.org v2,  for comparison to Microsoft Office, and to get around issues with readonly fonts in PowerPoint

Collaboration, Email, RSS, IM and Organisation

• Lotus Notes 6.52,  my companies email system and my master contact database
• Microsoft Outlook +Newsgator, my main RSS reader and Personal Email, also has backup copy of my contacts
• OnTime 2006 (free), Client task, action and project manager
• Lotus Sametime
• MSN Messenger (free)
• Groove v 3.1
• OneBridge (mobile email for PDA) desktop connector

Disks:

• C: system disk
• D: primary data disk

Backup, each night:

• No backup,  all data on this disk is a replica of data on