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Tuxman:
The ones I regularly use, together with a bunch of more or less useful batch scripts:

cwRsync - backup stuff
Vim - my Twitter client & text editor
msls - ls (& grep) for Windows
ack - better grep (when configured properly)
FAR - NC clone

Worth a try, too:

PyCmd - better cmd
Swiss File Knife - file tree processor, binary grep, treesize, instant ftp+http server, line filter, text replace, dupfind, join files, md5 lists, run command on files, extract strings, detab, patch, tail, hexdump
MPXPLAY - better Winamp

 ;D

Good old console. I wish more people would see its benefits.

rjbull:
FAR - NC clone
-Tuxman (December 06, 2010, 07:20 PM)
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I use Total Commander, which is WinGUI, but surprisingly comfortable.  I was/am a DOS holdout, and registered TC in about 2000.  It was the first thing that made using Windows almost semi-tolerable.

As I understand it, FAR is console-mode but saves a lot of stuff in the Registry?  Which seems a curious hybrid.

Tuxman:
TC is not a console application, so does not fit here.

wraith808:
Also great for retrieving GMail when you don't want to open the whole sideshow.
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I don't think I've entered GMail through the 'front door' even once since I found out about goosh.


If you regularly use Google, you just gotta love :-* this thing.
-40hz (December 04, 2010, 12:09 PM)
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It looks very cool... I tried the gmail command, though, and it just embedded an empty window.  I'm using Chrome ironically enough.  Any ideas why this might happen?

40hz:
New one for me, but I don't use Chrome so that's no surprise.  ;D

Gonna have to take a look at that. You've piqued my curiosity.


UPDATE: it's a flagged issue (Issue #11) Apparently they're still working on it.

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