Programs, tools, and websites that made my life easier

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Programs, tools, and websites that made my life easier	2009-01-28 12:25	List of programs, tools, and websites that have made my life easier

This is my last fulltime week at CQL as a project manager so to help those that will be taking over my responsibilities, I’m putting together a list of programs and tools that made my life easier.

Text & Source Code

SciTE - for editing text and source code files
WinMerge – for comparing two versions of source code and merging differences
Eclipse – with it’s PHP extension – writing killer php apps

Screenshot’s and Videocasts

Jing – for taking screenshots and videocast’s with voice and either emailing them or automatically having them upload to screencast.com and just sending a link to clients, coworkers, friends
Fireshot – a plugin for firefox

Web app diag/debug

Firefox
- Firebug add-on
- Webdeveloper Toolbar add-on
Safari
Opera
Chrome
IE7Pro – Plugin for IE7 allowing for some sweet customizations
Elinks for Windows – view your website similar to how a crawler would (just text)
Google Analytics
W3C’s HTML validator

Collaboration

Basecamp – collaboration with clients, coworkers, bosses
Yammer – internal, realtime, micro-bloggy collaboration with coworkers
Twitter - (and Twhirl to communicate with it)
Delicious.com – Social bookmarking
GoToMeeting (not free) – professional conferencing tool with ability to share your screen with other participants
FreeConference – free conference calling
Google Docs – Share and collaborate with team mates on your spreadsheets and word documents
Google Forms – Easily create a form and send out a link. Get output in a Google spreadsheet
Crossloop – help someone with their computer without being there in person (screen share)

File Transfer / Server connect

PuTTY - shell access to Linux servers
FileZilla – SFTP, FTP, SCP client

Misc tools/websites

Gantt Project – for creating Gantt Charts
OpenProj – Gantt charts, resource planning, import from MS Project
CDEx – for ripping CD’s into mp3′s
Freemind – mind and structure mapping tool
GUUUI – a web proto-typing template for Visio
KeePass – keep your passwords stored securely in on location
PureText – paste pure text (no formatting attached) even when copying from MS Office programs or websites
SharpReader - RSS reader that supports authenticated feeds (such as Basecamp)
Total Commander – File management tool
DiscScanner – free space on disk
7-Zip – Compress/decompress zip files and just about any other file type. Even open ISO’s.
Gimp – GNU Image Manipulation Program
Launchy – 1. press Alt-Space 2. type any part of a name of a program installed on your computer 3. Hit enter
PDFCreator – create PDF’s out of any program. Even que up documents from multiple programs into on PDF
Google Reader – Subscribe to RSS feeds and share them with friends
Cygwin – UNIX emulator for windows – giving you access to your favorite linux/unix tools on your windows machine
KMyMoney – (runs on Linux) personal finance manager application that imports from MS Money or Quicken
Highrise – sweet CRM from 37signals (creators of Basecamp)
Google Labs – stay up to date on what Google is experimenting with
Slashdot.org – news for geeks
Audacity – record music