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I’ve been a fan of Dreamweaver, the web development app from Macromedia, since I first picked up a license for version 1.2 many moons back. Whilst it is far from perfect (a crappy FTP engine and laughable CSS support spring immediately to mind) it is still leaps and bounds ahead of competing packages.

Like many fans of Dreamweaver I can’t help wonder what will happen to the package now that Adobe (of Photoshop fame) have bought out Macromedia. Such is my concern that Adobe are going to ruin the package that I’ve decided to upgrade to the latest version now before they get a chance to screw with it too much.

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The new Dell laptop arrived today (very good, but bit too shiny for my liking - more of that another time). Once I had cleared off a few gig of useless crap that Dell had kindly installed, including 5 different AOL programs, I thought I’d load up some essential software before the holiday weekend.

Whilst I am sure that my list of essential software wouldn’t suit everyone, I found making the choices quite interesting. Here’s what I came up with and why:

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