Chapter 23 Tools

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Tools
  • SlickRun - |
    Floating command line with customizable “Magic- Word” shortcuts
  • ZoomIt - |
    Simple zoom tool with a drawingfeature for marking up portions of your screen during presentations
  • Magnifixer - |
    Utility to magnify any part of your screen to see details on the pixel level
  • Less MSIérables - |
    A tool to view and extract the contents of Windows Installer files
  • FileZilla - |
    Simple yet powerful FTP client
  • CommandPromptHere - |
    Open a command window with all the environment variables set for Visual Studio 2003 or 2005 just by right-clicking
  • Cropper - |
    Elegant screen-capture utility with many handy features
  • ColorMania - |
    Color picker that gives you complete control over color selection and modification
  • PowerShell - |
    An interactive command-line shell and complete scripting environment
  • PowerShell IDE - |
    Excellent IDE letting you work much more efficiently with PowerShell
  • TaskSwitchXP - |
    An advanced Alt-Tab replacement with thumbnail previews and advanced task-management capabilities
  • SyncToy - |
    Helps you synchronize folders on two different systems
  • Unlocker - |
    Helps you quickly find which processes are locking files of interest, and kill those processes if needed
  • Cygwin - |
    Provides a POSIX compatibility layer to allow building of POSIX-compliant applications