With the financial year end fast approaching it is time to consider any kit purchases in anticipation of activities during 2016 (and I don’t get that list right very often in truth). A laptop upgrade to something smaller and lighter looks a good idea – particularly with one of the teenagers having a dead machine and thus more than grateful for my cast off (actually not a bad spec - certainly going to outperform most current low end offerings).
Buying hardware is just a few clicks in a web browser these days but the software component list promises a long session just running installs.
What would be on your list for a basic set-up?
I started with:
Plus some homemade tools and utilities.
Then there is the question of MS Office – will Gmail’s ability to display (say) Word documents fill in enough on incoming attachments to get by?
Something to read PDF’s I suppose.
Any suggested additions?
Factor in a few system updates to add to the confusion and slow package download speeds and this already looks like a day’s work
Edit:
Cracked and added a copy of MS Office. With the release of Office 2016 there are a lot of bargains around - particularly with earlier versions. In fact by a series of stock shortages I ended up with a copy of 2016 Pro for the price of a 2013 Home & Office on the residual market.
Buying hardware is just a few clicks in a web browser these days but the software component list promises a long session just running installs.
What would be on your list for a basic set-up?
I started with:
- Chrome browser
- FireFox browser
- Visual Studio 2015
- Android Studio
- SQL Server
- Paint.NET
- Notepad++
- SourceGear diff/merge tool
- SQLiteBrowser
- Bruce Schneier ‘s PasswordSafe
- Hex Editor
- IPScanner
- Dropbox
- LinQPad
- Putty
Plus some homemade tools and utilities.
Then there is the question of MS Office – will Gmail’s ability to display (say) Word documents fill in enough on incoming attachments to get by?
Something to read PDF’s I suppose.
Any suggested additions?
Factor in a few system updates to add to the confusion and slow package download speeds and this already looks like a day’s work
Edit:
Cracked and added a copy of MS Office. With the release of Office 2016 there are a lot of bargains around - particularly with earlier versions. In fact by a series of stock shortages I ended up with a copy of 2016 Pro for the price of a 2013 Home & Office on the residual market.
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