Tools that are replaced my Windows counterparts
Windows has plenty of tools in its base. Most of them are critical to day-day-activities and few of them are not up to the market standard or they lost their share to competitor applications. Below are my list of applications that I use everyday instead of Windows apps.
Google desktop search (GDS) is more efficient and [...]
ArgoUML - a free Visio counterpart
Recently, I have been asked to evaluate a UML modeling tool, ArgoUML and below are my initial impressions on this tool:
More standards compliant (have to be familiar with all UML terms, in order to efficiently use this application!)
Generation of source code from the model (which is not supported in Visio)
Supports Java, C#, C++ and PHP [...]