My favorite software

As of July 13th 2020, my favorite software (besides from Simple DNS Plus) is:

Software Development

• Visual Studio 2019 - https://www.visualstudio.com
  Awesome IDE.

• Visual Studio Code - https://code.visualstudio.com
  Awesome IDE - for lightweight stuff.

• Fork - https://git-fork.com
  Nice GUI Git client.

• WinMerge - http://winmerge.org
  Great tool for comparing text files.

• SQLite Studio - http://sqlitestudio.pl
  For managing SQLite databases.

• Eazfuscator.NET - http://www.gapotchenko.com/eazfuscator.net
  Obfuscator for .NET code. So much better and more affordable than Dotfuscator.

• Advanced Installer - http://www.caphyon.com
  Nice MSI installer builder at a reasonable price.

• Visual Build Professional - http://www.kinook.com
  Great tool for automating software builds. This just saves me so much time.

• Axialis Icon Workshop - http://www.axialis.com
  Great for converting/creating software icons.

• NuGet Package Explorer - https://github.com/NuGetPackageExplorer/NuGetPackageExplorer
  For creating and maintaining NuGet packages.

• Prepros - https://prepros.io
  For compiling, bundling, minifying and prefixing Sass, CSS, TypeScript, JavaScript etc.

Server software

• SoftEther VPN - https://www.softether.org
  Nice VPN server software.

• Bonobo Git Server - https://bonobogitserver.com
  Nice Git server built with .NET and runs on IIS.

• Certify SSL Manager - https://certifytheweb.com
  Software to automate installation and renewal of free Let's Encrypt SSL certificates on IIS / Windows Server.
  Of course it has an option to authenticate via DNS by updating DNS records in Simple DNS Plus :-)

• SmarterTrack - https://www.smartertools.com/smartertrack/help-desk-software
  Help desk software.

Desktop software / Utilities

• KeePass Password Safe - http://keepass.info
  Great (free) program for storing passwords.
  Storing the (encrypted) password database on DropBox makes it easy to sync between computers and my (Android) phone.

• CutePDF Professional - http://www.cutepdf.com
  I mostly use it for scanning to PDF files, and for merging multiple PDF files into one.

• TreeSize Free - https://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free
  Figure out what is using all that hard disk space.

• Macrium Reflect - http://www.macrium.com
  Great software for cloning / migrating harddisks.

• SyncBackPro - https://www.2brightsparks.com
  For syncing local files and backing up to the cloud.

• VeraCrypt - https://www.veracrypt.fr
  For making an virtual encrypted harddisk - which lives in a file on your regular harddisk.
  Better and cheaper than BitLocker - better because I don't have to encrypt the whole disk (which could cause others problems) and cheaper because it is free and BitLocker only comes with Windows 10 Pro.

• 7-Zip - http://www.7-zip.org
  Great for working with zip files and other compressed file archives.
  I primarily use this because the built-in function for creating zip files in Windows 10 doesn't work with file names containing non-english characters.

• Syncthing - https://syncthing.net
  For syncing files between devices. Replaced DropBox / Google Drive and backup software.

• VirtualBox - https://www.virtualbox.org
  Amazing virtual machine software for the desktop.
  I prefer to use this over Hyper-V (which comes with Windows 10 Pro) because it is much easier to move virtual machines between host computers. I simply store the VM images on a portable harddisk and move this between host machines as needed. This is possible because VirtualBox (like VMWare Workstation) is a "level 2" hypervisor - meaning that hardware is virtualized. Hyper-V is "level 1" meaning that VMs interface directly with the hardware, and thus are much harder to move to a different host machine.
  I used VMWare Workstation for man years, but VirtualBox does exactly the same, only for free.

Photography / graphics

• Affinity Photo - https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo
  For general photo/image editing. (Replaced Adobe Photoshop with this in February 2020)

• Capture One - https://www.captureone.com
  For RAW photo file processing and photo management.
  (Replaced Adobe Lightroom Classic with this in September 2019)

Web-apps

• Trello - http://www.trello.com
  Fantastic for organizing thoughts, todo-lists, and everything else. With apps for Android and iOS.

• GitHub - https://github.com
  THE Git respository site.

• Office 365 - http://office.com
  Online versions of Word and Excel, OneDrive, hosted e-mail etc.

I have tried many different tools in all these categories over the years, and I can highly recommend all of the above over any competitors that I know of. If you know of any better alternatives please do tell me in the comments below - always looking for better toys :-)