We've all been there. someone sends us a PSD to quickly review
but we don't have photoshop installed ... Or you're doing some
work and you need to find a file in your well organized folder
structure - you know it's in there somewhere but you're not sure
where exactly ....
This is for you. A list of our favourite Open Source or Free
programs and utilities that everyone should have. In no particular
order then
Filezilla - The best FTP client out there.
Period
Agent Ransack - If you ever need to find a
file, or search for a string within a file agent ransack is your
friend. Much quicker than the built in windows search
PaperCut - Your first call for doing any
development that involves sending emails. A system tray app that
will act as a mail server and let you see the mail you want to send
without any of the hassle of havig to set up a mail server or
accounts or anything
Paint.Net - Simple, easy image editing
tool that lets you manipulate images to your hearts
content.
Notepad++ - Is there really a better text and
source editor out there? We don't think so. Code highlighting,
third party plugins. Fabulous.
Open
DBDiff - One for the DB guys - great tool to compare database
schemas and really useful for development
Cooktop - Great XML management program
TreeSizeFree - Ever find yourslf running out of
space on your hard disks? Treesize will give you a nice clean and
quick report on what's eating up your previous gigabytes
Unlocker - Developing with files and getting
locking issues? Unlocker will tell you which process has locking
handles on your files and will allow you to kill them quickly and
easily
So there you go. Any comments or apps you use that we might
benefit from? Let us know :)