IrfanView is a long-time favorite here in the JPT headquarters.  It is a simple, lightweight image editor that might not be particularly pretty to look at, but it’s like your mother always told you, “It’s what’s inside that counts.”  Inside IrfanView is a wealth of frequently used photo edits and tweaks, perfect for the 85% of people who can’t afford, don’t have, or don’t know how to use Adobe Photoshop.

At work, I use a Windows machine and I frequently run into issues that wish I had TextWrangler for.  It did not take long for me to turn to Notepad++ to speed up my productivity.

Despite the praise I had previously bestowed upon Google Notebook, Google has decided to stop development on this unappreciated service.  With Notebook on death row, where do we go now?

Great antivirus program for windows and linux. Click to find out why.

Adium gets updated with new features. Click to find out more.

I like Google, along with most of the software it  has rolled out over the years. One of the gems Google has released is Picasa2, a free fully featured photo organizer. Its the best photo organizer I’ve used on Windows, that’s why it’s the first program to receive our brand new seal of approval, this does not mean previously reviewed programs are not as good, but we just came up with the seal. Read on after the break to find out more about Picasa2.