Other utilities and/or software I’m using

Every two or five year or so I post on our intranet what [tag]utilities[/tag] I’m using in my everyday work. The list today would be (I don’t list common office products nor the Lotus Notes etc):

Ultraedit

Text editor. I probably should review this choice since I’ve been using it for ages and there should be something better around today.

XML Spy

XML suite. This is the absolutely number 1 choice when working with XML based development. Includes a SOAP debugger for example.

Launchy

Helps starting up programs easy. I blogged about this yesterday.

Charles

Web debugging proxy. Excellent tool for debugging HTTP traffic. Including filters and header manipulation.

Google Desktop, Google Talk

Desktop for the web clips and System Monitor plug ins. Talk for interaction with my colleagues.

Mind Manager

A mind mapping software. This is just used occasionally by me these days.

Irfanview

Image viewer. Extremely fast and featured image viewer with some common tools like resize, batch rename etc.

MyEclipseIDE

A eclipse plug in. This is probably the tool that increase my productivity most. It adds a lot of small features very handy when developing MVC and equal applications in Eclipse.

Notepad++

Another text editor. I don’t really know why I keep installing this. I never use it, but I always recommend new colleges to us it, and they are happy with it. I guess changing text editor is really painful if you allready learnt to work with one.

Personal Brain

File organizer/structurer. This tools is so incredible cool. I used to use it for all files until I started to work from multiple computers. It’s not built for roaming so to say. Give it a try!

TortoiseCVS

A CVS client. TortoiseCVS lets you work with files under CVS version control directly from Windows Explorer.This makes CVS less painful than the command-line-way. Works flawless, recommended!

WinSCP

SFTP and SCP client for windows. Works as it should and costs no money. (Donate!)

LeechFTP

Just an FTP client. Not the worst, not the best. But free.