Tools

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

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

BBEdit – www.barebones.com
Awesome text editor for the Macintosh. Regarded by many as one of the best text editors on any platform.
MacOS X – www.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.

Adobe Photoshop – www.adobe.com
The standard in graphics-editing software.
Adobe Illustrator – www.adobe.com
Create professional vector graphics, including logos with Illustrator.
Macromedia Flash – www.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 Dreamweaver – www.macromedia.com
Dreamweaver is an excellent HTML editor, including good WYSIWYG functionality.