![]() ![]() Packed with a huge number of editing features, it also has built in support for multiple program languages (syntax highlighting, auto-complete, etc). Notepad++ ( ) – As you probably guess from the name, this open source tool is the Windows Notepad on steroids.IrfanView ( ) – Image viewing software, one of the few that I could find that properly handles unusual formats like JP2.I’ve written about this one before see here and here. ILSpy ( ) – My preferred replacement for.Includes support for FTPS and SFTP, and runs on Windows, Linux, and OS X. FileZilla ( ) – Multi-platform FTP utility.Fiddler ( ) – A free tool from Microsoft that I use to analyze HTTP traffic.CCProxy ( ) – Personal proxy server that I use to allow Windows Virtual PC-based virtual machines to communicate with both Internet resources and database servers set up on the host machine (long story, needs an entire blog post all to itself).On the other hand, the options are exhaustive… you can even use regular expression pattern matching to find/update files. Bulk Rename Utility ( ) – The previously-mentioned file renaming tool with an interface that only a developer would love.Note that the LAME MP3 encoder must be installed separately in order to be able to save your edited sound files as MP3s. Audacity ( ) – Multi-platform, open source sound editing tool.Originally Windows-based, there is now port of the command line version for Linux. 7-Zip ( ) – Free open-source alternative to WinZip and other commercial file archiving tools. ![]() If you find something you like on this list, you’re welcome! Except as noted, these are tools that run on the Windows platform. These are utility apps that do one specific thing well, not large suites or platform software like Visual Studio Express or MySQL. So, rather than one quick two-line blog, I decided to write up a post highlighting a number of the free/open-source /cheap tools that I regularly use. But, I really didn’t have much to say about it, other than ‘Hey, I found this tool, it’s got an interface that only a developer could love, but it gets the job done’. So I went out and found a nice tool that did what I wanted, and I thought I’d blog about it. I recently needed to renamed a bunch of files in a directory on Windows, and the command line tools Rename and Copy and Move weren’t quite enough to get the job done. ![]()
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