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• AdAware - spyware/adware finder
• Brother's Keeper - genealogy
• Convert - free utility to convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions
• DirectoryCompare - directory/zip difference utility
• Electric! - screensaver for engineers
• ExamDiff - file/directory/zip difference utility
• Monospace/Fixed Width Programmer's Fonts - lists many of the best monospace / fixed width fonts with screen shots of what they look like. Good when you need fixed-width fonts for editors
• Mozilla - excellent and free modern browsers, email clients, etc
• NotGNU Emacs - emacs editor
• Paint Shop Pro Album (PSPA) - image/graphics album, management, advanced projects, etc
• Pegasus Email - email client
• PINs - password manager
• Pop3 Scan Mailbox - email checker
• S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System - By Eric Meyer, a slide show format based entirely on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript. With one file, you can run a complete slide show and have a printer-friendly version as well. The markup used for the slides is very simple, highly semantic, completely accessible and easy to re-theme.
• Spybot Search and Destroy - spyware/adware finder
• Webshots - screensaver and online photo albums
• WenSoftware: Book Library - book cataloging app
• WinAmp - music player, free, excellent
• WinVN Newsreader - an nntp newsreader app. unfortunately it hasn't been updated in years and it has been surpassed by other newsreaders, but it was great in its time.
• WinZip - zip/unzip utility
• ZoneAlarm - excellent and free personal firewall - also catches spyware trying to call home from your computer - Don't connect to the net without it!

• 1001 Free Fonts - a popular free fonts archive
• 25 Best License-Free Quality Fonts - Vitaly Friedman is offering his pick of license free fonts which would fit as a serious heading for a serious online-presentation.
• Dieter Steffmann Fonts - large archive of his very-interesting fonts
• MiniFonts - fairly priced and trendy pixel fonts
• Monospace/Fixed Width Programmer's Fonts - lists many of the best monospace / fixed width fonts with screen shots of what they look like. Good when you need fixed-width fonts for editors
• Proggy Programming Fonts - some free, nice monospaced fonts
• RockRage: Music Band Fonts - for those of you who've always wanted to use the Metallica font on your resumes ;-)
• T.26 - massive collection of great commercial fonts
• Walden Font Co. - Superb historical typefaces
• see also Website Development | Typefaces and Fonts (web) - -

• Analog - WWW logfile analysis
• CSE HTML Validator - HTML validator and checker
• GoldWave Digital Audio Editor - for recording and editing audio files (sermons in my case)
• HomeSite - HTML editor and IDE
• Paint Shop Pro (PSP) - an inexpensive yet powerful image/graphics/photo editor (now sold by Corel)
• SoundForge XP Studio - for recording and editing audio files (now owned by Sony)
• TableEditoR - 2eNetWorX - open source ASP database admin app (I work on this project)
• TopStyle CSS/XHTML editor - an excellent tool
• WS_FTP - ftp client (IMO the pro version is worth the $)
• Xenu's Link Sleuth - excellent free link checker
• see also Website Development : Tools and Software - .

• Altera Max+Plus II and Quartus - for Altera FPGA's
• Emacs VHDL Mode - an Emacs major mode for editing VHDL code
• GNU Emacs Editor - excellent for VHDL with the vhdl mode add-in (see separate link in this category)
• HyperLynx LineSim - Pre-layout signal integrity, crosstalk and EMC analysis
• Mentor Graphics - schematic entry, simulation, all the CAD tools for board design
• Modelsim - vhdl simulation
• StateCAD - state machine design
• Synplify - vhdl synthesis for FPGA design
• Timing Designer - timing analysis
• UltraEdit - a very powerful yet easy to use editor (our work standard, though I generally use GNU emacs for VHDL and NotGnu emacs for other text editing)
• Visio - drawing tool (best around, I use this for all sorts of dwgs, at home and at work. note that a free visio viewer download is available at microsoft)
• Xilinx ISE - for Xilinx FPGA's

• Descent - an oldie, but one of the few PC games I've really gotten hooked on.... has the advantage that the full-3d motion can cause nausea in some people... ;-)
• HyperBalloid - a highly addictive brick-buster-type (breakout) game with beautiful graphics and interesting action (see www.alawar.com for details). Yes, this is an affiliate link, but I registered Hyperballoid complete edition the same day I tried it. It's a favorite of mine, and of my son.
• Welltris - another old favorite, try this 3-d tetris game

• All The Bookmarklets - a *huge* list of bookmarklets and other bookmarket sites
• Jesse Ruderman's Bookmarklets - zoom, web development, links-to-more, etc
• Bookmarklets.com - the site that started it all. lots of good bookmarklets
• Go Wayback Bookmarklet - When you get a 404 page not found error, just click this to look it up in the Wayback Machine on the Internet Archive. (For now, to find this bookmarklet, go to What's New and look for them under May 16, 2002.)
• Accessify: Accessibility-checking favelets - na
• Andy Budd: Bookmarklets/Favelets that work in Safari - nc
• Centricle favelets - misc
• Eric Meyer's Favelets - webdesign "diagnosis" favelets
• Francois Jordaan - Bookmarklets and other useful things for IE's Links bar
• Gazingus: validation bookmarklets - for website development validation
• Google Browser Buttons - quick search bookmarklets, let you search via google simply by highlighting a word (or phrase) on any web page and clicking... or click with no selection for a popup form to fill in.
• HTMLSource: bookmarklets - nc
• Manni Heumann's Bookmarklets - a nice selection, with useful bm's to let you check a site's server uptime, count the number of images on a page, increment the number in a URL ahead or back (useful when surfing documents or images), and more.
• Micro Persuasion: Bookmarklets Every Blogger Should Have - nc
• Milly's Bookmarklets - bookmarklets that focus on specialized searches
• Phil Burns' Bookmarklets for Opera - nc
• Pixy: Let's Favelets - webdevelopment/design favelets
• Sam-I-Am Bookmarklets - web page debugging and development
• samrod: Functional Bookmarks - nc
• Simon Willison: Using bookmarklets to experiment with CSS - a blog posting
• Simon Willison's image drag bookmarklet - makes every image on a page "draggable"
• slayeroffice: Favelet Suite - a whole suite of web development favelets combined into a clever single one, or available separately
• Tantek's Favelets - validation, browser sizing and other webdev
• Troels Jakobsen: Bookmarklets - nc
• Wilk4 Bookmarklets - Addall book lookups
• PCMag: Bookmarklets Boost Web Surfing - article about bookmarklets

• LangaList - excellent mailing list, the paid Plus version is well worth the price
• Lockergnome - another excellent mailing list
• TinyApps - a guide to very small software for your PC, site & blog
• TweakHound - excellent, detailed information on installing Windows XP and tweaking settings. See especially "Super XP Tweaking Guide" and "The Right Way To Install Windows XP."