Tools

These are links to tools we’ve found to be useful. Many are freeware, although some are… not.

Windows Tools

  • Crimson Editorwww.crimsoneditor.com
    Excellent freeware text-editor with syntax highlighting for all major coding languages, including HTML, PHP, Java, JSP, ASP, etc…
  • Cygwincygwin.com
    Cygwin is a Unix implementation for Windows that allows you to use tools like wget, bash, ls, etc…
  • FileZillafilezilla.sourceforge.net
    Freeware FTP client
  • Firefoxwww.mozilla.org/products/firefox/
    Mozilla-based web browser. Very fast, standards compliant.
  • Open Officewww.openoffice.org
    Free office suite, opens and edits Microsoft Office format documents including .doc, .xls, .ppt.
  • Trillianwww.ceruleanstudios.com
    Instant messenger client that allows you to use your Yahoo, MSN, AIM, ICQ and IRC accounts together.
  • Thunderbirdwww.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/
    Mozilla-based email client.
  • Winampwww.winamp.com
    Awesome media player for Windows, featuring extremely sophisticated skins and visualizations.
  • WinCVSwww.wincvs.org
    Nice GUI for CVS on the Windows platform.

Macintosh Tools

  • BBEditwww.barebones.com
    Awesome text editor for the Macintosh. Regarded by many as one of the best text editors on any platform.
  • MacOS Xwww.apple.com
    The latest from Apple is super-slick, based on Unix for stability and you can run all sorts of goodies on it now.

Cross-Platform Tools

  • Adobe Photoshopwww.adobe.com
    The standard in graphics-editing software.
  • Adobe Illustratorwww.adobe.com
    Create professional vector graphics, including logos with Illustrator.
  • Macromedia Flashwww.macromedia.com
    We started using Flash back when it was still at version 3, then 4, then 5, now it’s MX and MX 2004 Professional.
  • Macromedia Dreamweaverwww.macromedia.com
    Dreamweaver is an excellent HTML editor, including good WYSIWYG functionality.

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