Radu Luchian(ov): Pastime:
Shareware and Freeware

These are some of the programs for which I am in debt to their authors. [something about the concepts - to come]
Programming Languages are free; the IDEs are the things people pay for

• perl - interpreted, available on all platforms, quick to learn, easy to read
• JavaScript - sort of a perl within the browsers; actually MS 'borrowed' lots of perl for JScript
  Text is historically the main medium of information storage
• Adobe Acrobat Reader - portable documents in a solid cross-platform shell
• VNotes - pretty good post-it like messaging tool
• NoteTab Light - excellent text editor and Windows automatizer
• ... but nothing beats my MonDoc - hypertext document editor and presentation engine
  Images are reputed to be worth a thousand words each; yeah, but it depends on talent, quality, compression used, etc.
• 
  Sound is one of the media in which I need stimuli for my experiments
• CoolEdit - great sound editor; I'm planning to register this one
• WinAmp - cool mp3 player (though heavy on resources) + its Lyrics plugin
• STP - System Tray Player, a lighter mp3 player
• MP3ext - small and effective mp3 tag editor
  email is a quick way of sending information
• Pegasus Mail - email at its best: choice of protocols and filters, very versatile
• Pine - for UNIX, PC and Mac; small and full of features
  FTP complements that by giving access to download libraries
• WS-FTP - best interface
• Leech - confusing interface, but quick and good for getting unattended jobs done
  HTTP is the best support ever for conveying thought
• Internet Explorer - the rogue: slim and sneakily integrated in Windows
• Netscape - the lizard who pioneered the Web Waves
  I spent some time on IRC as Moste
• mIRC II - all you may need, from emoticons to scripting :)
  ICQ, the YM and the like are too time-consuming 4 me.

  If you may want to see why I consider programming a worthwhile pastime, you can consider the projects on my drawing board, or check my portfolios available now: WebDesign, Programming and Cognitive Science. .

  End.

[ Home ][ Current Projects ][ Portfolio ][ Pastime ][ Pseudonyms ][ Résumé ]