Chapter 23 Tools

• SubText
  Subtext is a personal blog publishing platform that focuses on usability, elegance, and simplicity. If you’ve ever caught yourself throwing your hands in the air and declaring that you’re going to write your own blogging engine, then Subtext is for you.

• 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