{"id":15,"date":"2009-11-20T17:26:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T09:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lihua.me\/en\/?p=1"},"modified":"2009-11-20T17:26:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T09:26:50","slug":"software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lihua.me\/weblog\/software\/","title":{"rendered":"Software I using and used"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>I Love Freeware, I love Portable Application.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>image view and edit\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/\">Picasa<\/a>. Cool photo viewing &amp; editing software from Google.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.neoimaging.cn\/\">Neo Imaging<\/a>, image editing tool, Chinese edition only.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimp.org\">GIMP<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gimpshop.com\/\">GIMPShop<\/a>, replacement of Photoshop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>MindMapping\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mindjet.com\/\">MindManager Pro<\/a> is cool &amp; powerful mindmapping software, but too expensive.<\/li>\n<li>So I use <a href=\"http:\/\/freemind.sourceforge.net\/\">FreeMind<\/a> which is open source and free.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xmind.net\/\">XMind<\/a> Portable is also a good choice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Office\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/\">Google Docs<\/a> is cool and it can take the place of Microsoft Office some times. I can edit documents together with my partners and share with them. The weakness of online software is the terrible network and the great firewall of China. The SSL connecting has been blocked by great firewall.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openoffice.org\/\">OpenOffice.org<\/a> is freeware based on Java.<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft Office (2003\/2007)  is very popular in China, but most people, most companies use it without copyright. If you like Microsoft Office but just using word, excel and powerpoint, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wps.cn\">WPS Office Chinese Edition<\/a> by Kingsoft can be a good replacement. It is free for personal &amp; non-business usage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Explorer\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\">FireFox<\/a> is powerful with so many add-ons. The only weakness is the terrible start speed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/chrome\">Chrome<\/a> is faster. Maybe Chrome will take the place of FireFox in the future when more and more extensive in supported.<\/li>\n<li>IE8 for taobao, alipay and Internet Bank only. Sucks all Chinese Internet Bank and Alipay, we can&#8217;t use FireFox or Chrome for this websites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Email\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/\">Gmail<\/a> \/ Google Apps Mail for my own domain.<\/li>\n<li>I use Email clients, such as OutLook Express \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxmail.com.cn\">Foxmail<\/a> \/ OutLook \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozillamessaging.com\">Thunderbird<\/a> from 2002, and finally moved to web based Gmail in 2005. Gmail is powerful, faster, Smarter, easy to manage and less spam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Print Screen\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/picpick.wiziple.net\/\">PicPick<\/a> Portable is smart and free , just download and unzip to anywhere in your hard disk.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>PDF\n<ul>\n<li>I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxitsoftware.com\/\">Foxit Reader<\/a> portable as the default PDF reader. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.docu-track.com\/home\/prod_user\/PDF-XChange_Tools\/pdfx_viewer\/\">PDF-XChange Viewer Portable<\/a> is also a good free software. <a href=\"http:\/\/get.adobe.com\/cn\/reader\/\">Adobe reader<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skycn.com\/soft\/3076.html\">#<\/a> ?<\/li>\n<li>I use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cutepdf.com\/\">CutePDF<\/a> for PDF printing.<\/li>\n<li>I got a free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anypdftools.com\/pdf-password-remover.html\">PDF Password Remover<\/a> SN, lucky.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Downloading tools.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huaxlee.com\/blog\/post\/9\/\">Down ThemAll! for firefox<\/a> is my default downloading tools.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.emule-project.net\/\">eMule<\/a>, share software more than downloading tools.<\/li>\n<li>xunlei is fast, but too many ads I hat.<\/li>\n<li>the classic Flashget version 1.7.3 with no ads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>FTP\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/filezilla-project.org\/\">FileZilla Client<\/a> Portable\uff1b<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>IM\n<ul>\n<li>I love <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/talk\/\">Google Talk<\/a> as a IM and Gmail notifier, but few of my friends use it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/im.qq.com\">QQ<\/a> is the most populor IM in China. Tens of milliam Chinese use it including my family, my partners, my clients. I use non-ads <a href=\"http:\/\/im.qq.com\/tm\/\">TM version<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.skycn.com\/soft\/16443.html\">Windows Live Messenger<\/a> is also very popular in China. I hope I can chat with WML users with Google Talk in the future. You can remove the ad with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnshell.com\/\">MSN Shell<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"\u98de\u4fe1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fetion.com.cn\/\">Fetion<\/a> for free SMS, maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libfetion.cn\/\">LibFetion<\/a> is better.<\/li>\n<li>The chatting room by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.51uc.com\">Sina UC<\/a> is good.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huaxlee.com\/blog\/post\/1555\/\">Skype<\/a> for online VoIP and cheap world call. Don&#8217;t use <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">TOM Skype<\/span>, The big brother is watching you. Use the official Skype.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taobao.com\/wangwang\/\">Wangwang<\/a> for commanication with Taobao shop owners and Alibaba users.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Audio &amp; Video\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mpc-hc.sourceforge.net\/\">Media Player Classic Home Cinema<\/a> Portable, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-codecs.com\/real_Alternative_download.htm\">Real Alternative<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codecguide.com\/\">K-Lite Codec<\/a> needed for RMVB and RM.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.splayer.org\/\">Splayer<\/a> can download subtitle automatic.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foobar2000.org\/\">Foobar<\/a> for Audio playing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/audacity.sourceforge.net\/\">Audacity<\/a> is a opensource software recording and editing sounds.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.formatoz.com\/\">Format Factory<\/a> for video format convert. Be careful, <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">don&#8217;t install BAIDU toolbar.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Burning\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imgburn.com\/\">ImgBurn<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>AntiVirus\n<ul>\n<li>find AntiVirus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huaxlee.com\/blog\/post\/1383\/\">here<\/a>. Remember, don&#8217;t use any <span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Chinese AntiVirus<\/span>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sync and online backup\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/referrals\/NTgzNDkyOTk\">DropBox<\/a> supply 2G space for free users, and can be increasing to 5G by invite new user. I use DropBox for half a year, syncing files from my laptop and my desktop, sharing files with my partner. DropBox support only one folder, that is the only weakness.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mesh.com\">Live Mesh<\/a> by Microsoft, 5G free space, worth trying, supporting different folders.<\/li>\n<li>You can also try <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sugarsync.com\/referral?rf=fnjpq2nsj5d62\">SugarSync<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/my.syncplicity.com\/Signup\/?token=A5O8RZZL\">Syncplicity<\/a>, they are similar to Dropbox.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mozy.com\/?ref=XR6T3A\">Mozy<\/a> is nice online backup tools. They have more than 1 million users. And Mozy supplies 2G space for free users and unlimited backup for one PC only 4.95$ per month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Online Disk\n<ul>\n<li>I love <a href=\"http:\/\/skydrive.live.com\/\">SkypeDrive<\/a>, and I use <a href=\"http:\/\/skydriveexplorer.com\/\">SkypeDrive Explorer<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>notepad\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/notepad-plus.sourceforge.net\/\">Notepad++<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Type Chinese\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freewb.org\">Freewb<\/a>\uff1b<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>SSH\n<ul>\n<li>I manage my hosting with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chiark.greenend.org.uk\/~sgtatham\/putty\/\">Putty<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.putty.org\/\">#<\/a>;<\/li>\n<li>I use SSH Tunnel proxy with <a href=\"http:\/\/nemesis2.qx.net\/pages\/MyEnTunnel\">MyEnTunnel<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>VNC\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvnc.com\/\">UltraVNC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Love Freeware, I love Portable Application. image view and edit Picasa. Cool photo viewing &amp; editing software from Google. Neo Imaging, image editing tool, Chinese edition only. GIMP \/ GIMPShop, replacement of Photoshop. MindMapping MindManager Pro is cool &amp; powerful mindmapping software, but too expensive. So I use FreeMind which is open source and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software-internet","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lihua.me\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lihua.me\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lihua.me\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lihua.me\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lihua.me\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lihua.me\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lihua.me\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lihua.me\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lihua.me\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}