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+author: patrick
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+date: "2013-08-04T00:00:00Z"
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+title: New computer setup
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+*Editor's note: this is a snapshot of life in 2013-08-04. My setup has changed substantially since then.*
+
+In case I ever have to get a new computer (or, indeed, in case anyone else is interested), I hereby present the (updating) list of applications and so forth that I would immediately install to get a computer up to usability.
+
+*   Browser: [Firefox] with [Ghostery], [HTTPS Everywhere], and [NoScript] (and remember to turn on Do Not Track…)
+*   Mail client: [Thunderbird] with [Enigmail]
+*   Messaging client: [Adium] on Mac, and possibly [Pidgin] for others - I've never used a non-Mac chat client. Beware: as of this writing, Pidgin stores passwords in plain text, so don't save passwords in Pidgin.
+*   Encryption: GPG ([Windows][GPG Windows], [Mac][GPG Mac], [Linux][GPG Linux])
+*   Text editor: Vim
+*   Memory training: [Anki]
+*   Movie viewing: [VLC]
+*   Screen colour muter: [f.lux]
+*   Backup software: [CrashPlan] - but I also keep local backups using whatever built-in automated backup utility the OS provides
+*   FTP client: [FileZilla], or [Cyberduck] on a Mac
+*   Syncing: [Dropbox] (but I want to get rid of this, because of privacy concerns)
+*   Computational software: [Mathematica]
+*   Music: [iTunes] (but I want to switch this for something not-Apple, and it has no Linux version)
+*   Gaming: [Steam]
+*   RSS reader: Currently, my RSS feed is presented in-browser, at [NewsBlur].
+
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+[Firefox]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
+[Thunderbird]: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/
+
+[Ghostery]: https://www.ghostery.com/
+[HTTPS Everywhere]: https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
+[NoScript]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/
+[Enigmail]: http://www.enigmail.net/home/index.php
+
+[Dropbox]: https://www.dropbox.com/
+[Mathematica]: https://www.wolfram.com
+[iTunes]: https://www.apple.com/itunes/
+[Steam]: https://store.steampowered.com/
+[Anki]: http://ankisrs.net/
+[NewsBlur]: https://www.newsblur.com
+[FileZilla]: https://filezilla-project.org/
+[Cyberduck]: http://cyberduck.io/
+[CrashPlan]: https://www.crashplan.com/
+
+[f.lux]: http://stereopsis.com/flux/
+[VLC]: https://videolan.org/vlc/
+[Notepad++]: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/
+[Pidgin]: https://www.pidgin.im/
+[Adium]: https://adium.im/
+[GPG Linux]: https://gnupg.org/
+[GPG Mac]: https://gpgtools.org/
+[GPG Windows]: http://www.gpg4win.org/