Today, Heise has a news item referring to the new Themen-Special: Fotos optimieren, verwalten und präsentieren with a link to the older special Software-Grundausstattung. I haven't read neither one nor the other.

But I happen to have installed a few pieces of software from the net on a fresh computer today. Here's the list:

- JDK 6 Update 13 (java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp)
- Mozilla Firefox 3.0.7 (www.mozilla.com/en-US)
- Adobe Flash Player 10.0.22.87 (get.adobe.com/flashplayer)
- NoScript 1.9.1.2 (addons.mozilla.org/firefox/722)
- Google Notebook 1.0.0.22 (www.google.com/notebook/download)
- IE Tab 1.5.20090207 (addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419)
- Blogmark 1.8.1 (addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1487)
- Web Developer 1.1.6 (addons.mozilla.org/firefox/60)
- StumbleUpon 3.28 (addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/138)
- Scite 1.77-wbd-1 (gisdeveloper.tripod.com/scite.html)
- Eclipse Memory Analyzer 0.7.0.20081210 (www.eclipse.org/mat)
- TortoiseSVN 1.6.0.15855 (tortoisesvn.tigris.org)
- VLC media player 0.9.8a (www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html)
- WinRAR 3.8.0 (www.win-rar.com/homepage.html)
- Tomcat 6.0.18 (tomcat.apache.org)
- FastStone Image Viewer 3.7 (www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm)
- JProfiler 5.2.1 (www.ej-technologies.com/download/jprofiler/files.php)
- Adobe Reader 9.1 (get.adobe.com/reader)
- FreeMind 0.9.0 RC3 (sourceforge.net/projects/freemind)
- OpenOffice 3.0.1 (de.openoffice.org)
- NetBeans 6.5 (www.netbeans.org)
- Slik SVN 1.6.0 (www.sliksvn.com/en/download)
- Maven 2.0.10 (maven.apache.org)
- PDFCreator 0.9.7 (sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator)
- Process Explorer 11.33 (www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/utilities/ProcessExplorer.mspx)
- HxD 1.7.6.6 (mh-nexus.de/hxd)
- Feedreader 3.1.3 (www.feedreader.com)
- Spybot 1.6.2 (www.safer-networking.org/de/spybotsd/index.html)
- Adobe AIR 1.5.1 (get.adobe.com/air/?loc=de)
- TweetDeck 0.21.5 (www.tweetdeck.com)
- 7-ZIP 4.65 (www.7-zip.org)
- Spark 2.5.8 (www.igniterealtime.org/projects/spark/index.jsp)
- Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird)
- MinimizeToTray 0.0.1.2006102615+ (addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/2110)
- TrueCrypt 6.1a (www.truecrypt.org)
- Lumbermill 2.0 beta3 (traxel.com/lumbermill)
- Ant 1.7.1 (ant.apache.org)
- Quicktime 7.60.92.0 (www.apple.com/quicktime/download/standalone.html)
- WinDirStat 1.1.2 (windirstat.info)

Those 39 items are just the beginning, of course. And this list is not meant as my list of software recommendations. Lots of important software is still missing, and lots of stuff in this list is not for every day use. Make of it what you want...