Some realities - the packaged Apple Nvidia drivers for Windows causes some Windows 7's running Aero to crash under strain - there is a fix with one of the links below. If you want to run something like Carbide.ui (for Nokia theme development) - it's VERY slow running something like parallels, and buggy it seems - you cannot avoid having a pure XP/Windows 7 environment for hassle free Nokia-orientated development. This might change in the future, but I don't think we are there yet. Paragon Software released something called HFS+ for Windows (Win7 64-bit supported), I have only been using it for a couple of weeks, so I'm not going to add in until I am sure it's cool. I have a feeling that it's not a good idea to keep files you will be accessing a lot from Windows on your HFS volume, things like forks are not currently supported.
These are the things that need to be installed on my Windows 7 (64-bit version in this case) machine before I can really start working (this is very much for my own reference, for future cases):
Flash Lite Specific:
- Adobe CS Suite containing at least Flash, Photoshop, Illustrator, Bridge & Device Central
- Flash Extensions: Organize Library, Add Stop Frames, Name Objects
- AS2 Libraries: Tweenlite+Plugins, QueueLoader or PreLoadAssetManager
- Nokia Flash Lite API Bridge & Actionscript API Library
- Flashdevelop (Associate with .as files & I made this AS2 template )
- SecureSWF (Encrypt your SWF content)
- Symbian Carbide.UI (Nokia theme creation)
- Firefox / Chrome / Safari
- Thunderbird
- Thunderbird Add-ons: Stationary & Lightning Calendar
- Pidgin (IM from one app)
- Skype (Phone conferences)
- LibreOffice (Cross-platform & Free Office Suite)
- Notepad++ (Open source text-editor, powerful!)
- Dropbox (great for transferring files while you are setting up too)
- Evernote (sync your notes across your mobile and pc devices)
- FileZilla (SFTP support added)
- TortoiseSVN (64-bit supported)
- Explorer++ (If you want a more powerful Windows Explorer)
- 7Zip (Open-source cross-platform compression/decompression 64-bit available)
- uTorrent (Lightweight torrent client, get Vuze if you want to go crazy)
- Growl (Very popular on Mac, finally coming to Windows!)
- Inkscape (My favourite Open-source SVG editor)
- Audacity (Open-source WAV editor)
- Quicktime Pro (Basic editing, conversion to MOV if required)
- Shark Coded Pack (Let's you play and preview in explorer)
- MacbookPro Aero Fix (Fix crashing Macbook Pro i5/i7 Nvidia driver issues)
- Winamp Lite (Lightweight MP3 player)
- Gnaural (Binaural beats below your music)
- Last.fm (Subscription service is awesome and cheap)
I have updated the list, switched to LibreOffice and started using Evernote - with apps available on iPhone and Android, it does make your life better (Dropbox is awesome on mobile too!)
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