Ben's Essentials - Software For The New Laptop

So far, I'm really enjoying the new laptop. I'm just thrilled that the battery meter claims I have 5+ hours of battery life on a single charge.

As with any new computer, I've found that everytime I go to do something, I find another piece of software missing. So, the last few days have been spent re-creating my ideal environment. Below is the list of items I've added to the box so far. I hope to add this list as I add more packages.

Can you suggest any essentials I've missed? The list doesn't include really basic stuff, like Adobe Acrobat or Flash.

In no particular order...

• Gadwin Systems - Print Screen App
• Trillian - Instant Messaging App
• Emacs - Operating system / Multipurpose Editor
• Cygwin - Unix Commands / Unix Environment
• Eclipse - Java Development Environment
• Notepad2 - Lightweight Editor / Notepad.exe Replacement
• GNU Screen - Make a Unix Shell Even Better
• Firefox - Needs no description
• IE Pro7 - Add spell checking and other features to IE
• IrfranView - Ultra-lightweight Image Viewer
• Subversion - Version Control
• Apache - Web Server
• MySQL - Database server
• PHP - Web programming language
• Sitecopy - File copying tool
• The GIMP - Image Processing
• Microsoft Script Debugger - Make development with IE more possible
• Synergy - Share a single mouse and keyboard among multiple computers.
• ProcessExplorer - See what's really running on your system
• Sysinternals Utilities - Lots of small tools to peek inside your system
• Twitteroo - A Twitter client
• Mezer Tools - A small windows utility to measure the screen and take screenshots
• DrScheme - A Scheme programming environment
• Real Player - Listen and record online radio stations
• Windows Debugger - Useful for understanding windows crashes (Blue Screen Of Death, etc.)
• MySQL Utilities - Utilities for dealing with MySQL Databases
• XAMPP - Install Apache + MySQL + PHP + Other Goodies in one package
• 7-Zip - A zip utilitiy
• WinDirStat - A utility to visualize disk usage and track down where the heck all your space went.
• Junction - A small utility to create native directory links on Windows. Not exactly Unix softlinks - but as close as one can get. (Windows 7 now comes with mklink)
• Skype - Make phone calls from your computer, excellent for working with folks who are overseas
• Antix Developer SMTP Server - This is the ideal solution for dealing with e-mail on a dev server. No e-mail ever gets sent, which means no accidental e-mail leakage.

Update: I've updated this list while setting up my new laptop. Items crossed out above are either no longer used, or have been superseded by other tools.