The eXtensible ARchiver (command line xar) is no longer packaged with Ubuntu. However, unpacking the format is supported by 7zip (command line 7z).

Additionally, the Ubuntu Lucid packages for xar and libxar1 will install on Ubuntu Trusty.

Boost template visualizers for Visual Studio allows Visual Studio to give better debug information for some Boost data types. Particularly useful is support for boost::optional as the Visual Studio debugger cannot normally decode the value stored in the class.

Not clear in the documentation is that you need to edit the file autoexp.dat manually to add the visualizer specifications. This will usually require Administrator privileges.

ConEmu-Maximus5: Tabbed command prompt wrapper that can wrap cmd.exe , and GUI programs as well, EG PuTTY.

Clink: BASH style autocompletion/shortcuts for cmd.exe (and this works if cmd.exe is being wrapped by ConEmu).

When editing compilable code in Vim, you can use :make rather then :!make to trigger a build.

This will run Make, then jump to the first error. Additionally you can use :cn and :cN to jump to the next and previous error respectively.

VMsvga2 provides accelerated video for OSX guests in VMWare. This support is provided by VMTools for Windows and Linux guests, but is not available for OSX without this third party driver.