Free Tools and Utilities
Desktop tools (random order)
- Color Cop
A must have color picker and color converter.
Alternatives: Colorpic, ColorPix - Desktop Restore
This tiny application records the layout and positions of icons and programs on the desktop, and permits restoration of the layout. - WordWeb
WordWeb includes a comprehensive English thesaurus and dictionary, and can be used to look up words from within most programs. - Notepad2
The original Notepad shipped with Windows is probably the handiest program of all times, small, fast, without frills! Notepad2 tries to follow this principle, it's a small, fast and free text editor with syntax highlighting for HTML and other common languages. - IE Snapshot
A tool to capture web pages as they appear on the user's monitor. This application can grab almost all webpages and save them in to PDF, JPG, GIF or BMP file format. - Bulk Rename Utility
Bulk Rename Utility allows you to easily rename files and directories, based upon extremely flexible criteria. - Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar
The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages. - Microsoft PowerToys for Windows XP
PowerToys add fun and functionality to the Windows experience. More useful to me are the ClearType Tuner, the Open Command Window Here and the Image Resizer but all of them are really cool. - LockNote
Steganos LockNote will change the way you work with confidential notes. Application and document in one: the mechanism to encrypt and decrypt a note is part of it. Secure, simple, independent. No installation required. - TreeSize Free
TreeSize will add a new view to your file system. Working with many directories and files will be much easier. - CCleaner
A freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it's fast. - SmartFTP
A free ftp client which features an Explorer-like, customizable interface and supports drag-and-drop functions. - Cacheman
The Cacheman utility is designed to improve the performance of your computer by optimizing the disk cache, memory and a number of other settings.
Online tools
- Gmail
Far my favorite email client. Fast search, great spam filtering and increasing storage. - Del.icio.us
Social bookmarking... the page with the popular is one of the most sticky pages ever. - Pageflakes
For me the best personalized startpage out there. - Color tools: Color Palette Generator, Color Blender, ColorBlender, Color Schemer
