General Tools

Internet

• Terminal: putty
• File Transfer: WinSCP
• Browser: Chrome

Productivity

• MS Office: Word, Powerpoint, Excel
• Notetaking: OneNote, Google Keep
• E-mail: Google Inbox (web)
• Calendar: Google Calendar (web)
• Reference Management: Endnote, Mendeley
• PDF: Adobe Reader

Development

• Editor: emacs
  • ess (R formatting mode)
• Unix tools: cygwin (see below)
• Stats: R
• Other languages/interpreters: Java

Cloud Documents

• OneDrive, Google Drive

Communication

• Skype
• RSS: Feedly

Misc

• Spotify

Cygwin

Cygwin has been an old friend, bringing a unix environment to the Windows boxes I've used for quite some time. They implemented a lot of the unix OS layer in a DLL, making it so that most unix apps can compile directly via the configure/make (via native gcc/g++ ports). There is also a repository of pre-compiled binaries that can be installed, which are the packages listed here. There is some thought in my mind of trying out the Linux subsystem on windows.

Development environment

• gcc/g++/make
• awk
• python
• perl

Internet Utilities/Terminal

• openssh
• X11: xorg-server, xinit, xorg-docs, xlaunch
  • For putty to be able to forward X11: startxwin -- -listen tcp
• rsync, wget

Compiled

These will probably need to be compiled separately

• data manipulation: datamash
• genomics: bedtools