Charlie Calvert's Favorite Software of 2004

Charlie Calvert published his favorite software of 2004. I love lists so I thought I would pass his list on to you.

1. Firefox 1.0
2. Plone 2.0
3. Mono 1.0
4. Fedora Core 3
5. Visual SlickEdit 9.0
6. JEdit
7. Delphi 2005
8. Dreamweaver 2004
9. OpenOffice

Read his opinion piece for the details and his reasons. He also lists some favorite hardware.

Personally I would rate Firefox 1.0 way up there as well. It is a great browser. I haven't really used many of the other items on the list, with the notable exception of Delphi 2005 and Open Office.

Delphi which is a truly amazing development tool, and this version really shines. Open Office is a great productivity package. It is a leap ahead of any other development tool I have seen. Use it for a little while and you will have a hard time using other tools.

Even when I have MS Office installed I find myself still using Open Office instead. It is too bad they made it so much like MS Office. That was the downfall of Word Perfect as well. They almost need a version for MS Office drones and a version for people who want to be productive.

Others I would add to the list:

1. GAIM 1.0 - The open source, multi-network, instant messenger client.
2. Blogger - The new version after Google purchased them finally came out this year.
3. Grisoft AVG Free 7.0 - Good quality free anti-virus protection.

The tick is finding great software that I know was released this year. I'll update as I find more!