This is My Blackberry

This is my Blackberry.

There are many like it, but this one is MINE.

My Blackberry is my best friend. It is my life.

I must master it as I must master my life.

My Blackberry without me is useless. Without my Blackberry, I am useless.

Windows 7 Install List

Document Version 1.1.2.4.3 Last Modified 8/14/09

Just installed Windows 7 cleanly onto a new hard drive. Going to catalog the initial installation of apps and why I chose to install them.

• Commercial Software

Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit - Why not? That, and the current activator only supports Ultimate at this time, so the reasoning should be fairly obvious. I'm using 32-bit as I only have 3GB RAM, and I anticipate I'll replace this machine before I spend the money and add another Gig for no reason. You'll need Hazar's 7 Activator: Run as Administrator, let reboot the computer. Comes up activated. We'll see in a few days. edit: Few days later, all is well.

Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise - While your version may vary, is there any reason NOT to go with Enterprise?

Adobe CS4 Master Collection - The one, the only. Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver. Those are my main tools.

Roxio Creator 2009 - An all encompassing DVD burning suite. Some prefer Nero; I've come back to the old Adaptec product.

Techsmith Snaggit - For screen shots and other tutorial handiness.

Symantec Endpoint Protection - The Cox Security Suite that is provided by the ISP is not yet compatible with Windows 7. This is, and I've always personally had good luck with Symantec products.

Windows Home Server Connector - I currently have a Windows Home Server for my file server and torrenting machine, and this software gives me console access to it.

MagicISO - Used to open .iso images and add files. Namely condensing serials onto disks. Recently compatible with Windows 7.

• Free (as in beer) Software

Mozilla Firefox - 3.5 is current as of writing; quite fast and a nice alternative to Internet Explorer

Google Chrome - Just the other day released another update that made it skinnable. And ridiculously fast.

Applekeys 2 - I have an Apply Keyboard and need this to get 'Print Screen' mapped correctly to my keyboard.

Apple Safari - 4.0.2 is current as of this writing and add another browsing option.

Virtual Clonedrive - This is use for mounting .ISO files when I don't want to have to burn the CD/DVD

VLC - 1.0 as of this time. The one, the only. It's the Swiss Army Knife of multimedia players.

7-Zip - Has nothing to do with Windows 7 per se, this is the Swiss Army Knife of file openers.

Tweetdeck - Yeah, I know.

iTunes - Not really a question.

Blackberry Desktop 5.0 - Used to sync the Blackberry(ies). Had to install USB drivers with this suite.

• Games - Free or Otherwise
  

Fallout 3 - Seriously one of my all time favorites.
America's Army - Going to try 3.0. It's been a while.

• Incidentals - Unexpected but required installations

Adobe Flash - Had to update to 10.0

Adobe Air - Necessary for Tweetdeck

Apple Software Update - Necessary for Apple Software on Windows computers.

Quicktime - An incidental of iTunes
Apple Bluetooth Keyboard - Install wireless keyboard from Apple in Windows.
Windows Live - Newest free software out of Microsoft to compete with iLife.
Windows Live Games - Part of Windows Live.
Roxio Media Manager & Blackberry Media Sync - Part of Blackberry Desktop 5.0.

• Still Looking For:
  

A proper video transcoder for both my X-Box 360 and my Storm.
An all-in-one codec set for Windows Media Player 11 I trust to install
The new Batman demo.