Top 10 most useful and absolutely FREE tools in Microsoft Windows Every Web Developer Should Have:
1. paint.net : Absolutely amazing free photo editor. You can use paint.net to do almost all basic things you want to do with Adobe Photoshop. You can even open and save in .psd format.
2. notepad++ : Forget about Windows notepad. Notepad++ is the best free editor out there. It supports UTF8, and even has plugin for FTP client. (Say goodbye to dreamweaver)
3. Trillian : Need to chat with teammates? Chat on MSN, Yahoo, Gtalk, AIM, Jabber and many others with just one Trillian client. I'm a big fan of Trillian for many years. Their latest Astra is just amazing. Excellent design and feature.
4. Filezilla : If you need to FTP stuff, Filezilla is simple and excellent and open source FTP client!
5. Putty : Putty is the "standard" of SSH client. Simple yet reliable!
6. Camstudio : So you want to create a tutorial video and show the world how your application works? Camstudio comes to rescue! Just click on record and every movement on your computer is recorded. You can even record your voice at the same time.
7. 7-Zip : Why pay for winzip when you have 7-zip? 7-zip can even uncompress .RAR format. A must have tool!
8. PDFill PDF Tools : PDFill comes with a paid version, but I use its FREE tools a lot. Especially creating pdf files from my documents.
9. VideoLAN : Time to take a break from coding and watch some videos? VideoLAN is there for it. It can play almost every video format you can think of.
10. Directory Digest This is a new tool I just found. Basically, it can compare files in two directories for you, and tells you what are the file differences between them. Very handy in case you need to compare the new release with the old one.
Bonus tool:Windows Grep : Windows Grep is not free, but you can download it and try out. This is a must have tool for developers. Same as the "grep" command from *NIX. I have used Windows grep so many times, and it actually helped me a lot when I need to search for a string.
1. paint.net : Absolutely amazing free photo editor. You can use paint.net to do almost all basic things you want to do with Adobe Photoshop. You can even open and save in .psd format.
2. notepad++ : Forget about Windows notepad. Notepad++ is the best free editor out there. It supports UTF8, and even has plugin for FTP client. (Say goodbye to dreamweaver)
3. Trillian : Need to chat with teammates? Chat on MSN, Yahoo, Gtalk, AIM, Jabber and many others with just one Trillian client. I'm a big fan of Trillian for many years. Their latest Astra is just amazing. Excellent design and feature.
4. Filezilla : If you need to FTP stuff, Filezilla is simple and excellent and open source FTP client!
5. Putty : Putty is the "standard" of SSH client. Simple yet reliable!
6. Camstudio : So you want to create a tutorial video and show the world how your application works? Camstudio comes to rescue! Just click on record and every movement on your computer is recorded. You can even record your voice at the same time.
7. 7-Zip : Why pay for winzip when you have 7-zip? 7-zip can even uncompress .RAR format. A must have tool!
8. PDFill PDF Tools : PDFill comes with a paid version, but I use its FREE tools a lot. Especially creating pdf files from my documents.
9. VideoLAN : Time to take a break from coding and watch some videos? VideoLAN is there for it. It can play almost every video format you can think of.
10. Directory Digest This is a new tool I just found. Basically, it can compare files in two directories for you, and tells you what are the file differences between them. Very handy in case you need to compare the new release with the old one.
Bonus tool:Windows Grep : Windows Grep is not free, but you can download it and try out. This is a must have tool for developers. Same as the "grep" command from *NIX. I have used Windows grep so many times, and it actually helped me a lot when I need to search for a string.
