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My Windows

List of apps and configs I have made to used my Windows computer smoothly

Coding

Visual Studio Code

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Visual Studio Code is my main code editor. I also use it for my note/blog writing also. So I have a dedicated post for it here

Tabby

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Tabby is the terminal which is run on multiple platform. I found it works very well on windows as well as Mac or Linux. So I use it as my main terminal.
I use it almost with default settings here is my little changes in configs:

  • font-size: 18
  • color scheme: Firewatch

Terminal

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Windows terminal is really a official upgrade to the its legacy cm and powershell one. I know about this from a vlog if Takuya, I think you guys should watch it also.

Table Plus

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Table Plus is a database UI client. I use it to connect with database server in my develop process. It is very easy to use and support many different databases. It is developed by Vietnammese developers. I also pay the premium version of it.

Windows Sub-system Linux

Deprecated as I no longer using wsl anymore, I mostly using windows to connect and work on a remote server.

Browser

Microsoft Edge

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Edge become my main web browser since MS decide to turn to use Chromnium as its core. They also develop very nice feature like vertical tabs and tab grouping. I wonder if I should have a list of useful extension to installs on the browser.

Firefox

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Firefox is always my second choice. It has its own unique features that I like to explore around.

Google Chrome

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Chrome used to be my first choice browser, but since Edge with chromnium comes up. I leave the Google Chrome as third choice.

Brave Browser

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Brave is the first (and only till 2022), has integrate the ad-blocker inside the browser. So that you can use Brave without worrying about the ads everywhere. Brave also has BAT token, a crypto currency that encourage users to use Brave, watch selected ads and receive payment.

Social

Telegram

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Since I knew about telegram (late 2017). Telegram always my favorite messenger app. It is fast and stable. It also has nice sticker and gif pack. It also has no censorship.

Zalo

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Zalo currently (2022) is the most popular messenger app in Vietnam. So that I use Zalo to connect with my friend and mostly my family.

Slack

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I use slack only for work as my company using slack to corporate within teams. Undeniable that slack thread is very useful feature that keep the communication in focus

Discord

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Media

Splash Player

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KMPlayer

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KMPlayer

Popcorn Time

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This software is very awesome to watch movie as it use torrent file and streaming directly to your computer. However you will need a strong internet connection in order to watch the movie smoothly. Also as it is using torrent, you will need other peers to seed it for you.

Tools

A list of tool to make working with Windows is more comfortable.

Bitwarden

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Actually, I use Bitwarden as an extension on web browser. But it is very crucial application to manage password so I want to mention it here.

Windir Stats

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This software is very useful to check disk storage to find out which files are taking space. I use this to detect large files and clean up.

Windows Power Toys

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Windows Power Toys help re-keymap natively on Windows, I use it to remap my caplocks to esc, I don't use caplocks any time

Windows Power Toys also has Power Toys run, trigger by alt+space which is very similar to Mac Spotlight. However, it is still lack of dictionary function (at the time I wrote this 21 July, 2022). I often use it in Mac.

Adobe Lightroom Classic

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Beside coding, I also like to take photo then I use Adobe Lightroom Classic to edit most of my photos with raw. I also often edit my photo on mobile with Snapseed.

Adobe Photoshop

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Photoshop is really a powerful application that you can do many creative jobs. I don't use this application much but I have it in my photography pack of Adobe, then I list it here.

Transmission

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Minimal torrent client without any ads.