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Useful tools, services or sites I've come across. In no particular order.

  • Stefan Kung's Tools.  For Windows only. I find StExBar and grepWin very useful. From one of the creators of TortoiseSVN, a tool I simply cannot live without.
  • Email ASCII obfuscator.  There are quite a few tools for obfuscating email addresses: I chose to use this one because it doesn't force you to read an image and type the address manually, but still offers what appears to be good security.
  • Notepad++   Possibly the best of the free Windows text editors.  Play with the standard plugins - you'll be surprised how good they are. (I think the silly 'carbon-footprint reduction' nonsense on the web site is intended as a joke).
  • PSPad - a very capable Windows text editor.  Development seems to have stalled, and it's not quite as good as NP++ now.
  • FreeMind - good, free mind-map editor.  Written in Java.  Project isn't moribund but I do wish someone would really pick this up and run with it: great foundation, which could be so much better.
  • DropBox. The best web-drive product I have found. Works well on Linux, too.
  • JungleDisk - good for automated backups to Amazon S3.  Also offers drive mapped access to S3.  
  • Rapid Environment Editor.  If you hate editing Windows environment variables as much as I do, get a copy of this tool and if you like it, donate something to the author.  This is an excellent piece of software.
  • jZip. This is a freeware archive tools which handles zip, 7zip and most other common formats (including tar and gzip).  It's fast, and integrates with Windows Explorer nicely.

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