Free Web Tools

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Free Web Tools

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What are the best completely free tools that we use in our website/newmedia everything computer style world.

Here is some free info from Banyon Telecom:

Word Count PDF
This program will word count PDFs. (lovely!)
http://www.globalrendering.com/wordcount/wordcount.zip

PDF xchange viewer:
http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/pdfx_viewer/
Great tool as it enables you to markup a PDF, as well as create hires outputs from the file. Basically it's like a free version of the professional suite.

Free Flash Based Photo Album -ZPhoto
This program will create a flash and html photo album just, point it at the folder of photos set the output sizes and batch it (just need a server to host)
http://0xcc.net/zphoto/index.html.en

Sam Spade: Advanced lookups
Great tool for lookups and crawling websites.
I can only now find the download on this page, not avail on samspade.org
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/downloads/index...amp;itemID=4709

Net Demon:
another great suite of net tools
http://www.netdemon.net/

FlashGet: download accelerator
If you're trying to download a file this program is very intuitive and speeds up the connection. For example, I download normally I get 150K/sec. With Flash get it pulls it down at 1,000K/sec. Goood queuing options, right click on a page and download all with FlashGet.
www.flashget.com/en/download.htm

Xenu crawler http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

FileZilla FTP client. http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla

TidyGUI offline validator before going to W3C http://tidy.sourceforge.net/

PDFcreator a printer driver http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator

And something I discovered recently Server2Go. Carry your Apache server on a CD or USBstick. http://www.server2go-web.de/

Nothing beats a LAPP

Debian Linux - the open source operating system.
Apache HTTP Server - the open source web server.
PostgreSQL - the world's most advanced open source database.
PHP - general purpose scripting language.

Domain & Network Tools

Note: The ones in bold italics are not advised for the faint at heart.
BASE - PHP based IDS analysis engine.
LeechFTP - ftp client.
Metasploit Framework- platform for developing, testing, and running exploit code.
* You might like to read this first.
OpenSSH - secure access of remote computers.
PuTTY - secure access of remote computers.
Sara (Security Auditor's Research Assistant) - vulnerability assessment tool.
Snort - (IDS) intrusion, detection, and prevention system.
Tcpdump - network protocol analyzer.
Tripwire - file integrity checker.
Xenu's Link Sleuth - link integrity checker.

The Pretty Picture Stuff

AutoStitch - automatic 2d image stitcher.
Blender - 3d modelling application.
ColorPic - colour picker and colour palette creator.
Inkscape - vector graphics application.
Irfanview - view and edit most graphics formats.
The Gimp - (GNU Image Manipulation Program) raster graphics editor.

The Code and Copy Stuff

Notepad++ - source code and text editor.
OpenOffice - complete office suite.
RegexCoach - graphical WinApp for interactively experimenting with (Perl compatible regex toolkits like PCRE) regular expressions.

My Computer

7-Zip - file archiver.
Microsoft Virtual PC - create separate virtual machines/sandboxes.
TrueCrypt - encryption utility

Surf Like a Fox

Firefox
* DOM Inspector - inspect and edit the live DOM of any web document or XUL application while browsing.
* FireBug - edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript in any web page while browsing.
* GreaseMonkey - customize the way any webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript while browsing.
* Live HTTPHeaders - View HTTP headers of a page while browsing.
* Sage - lightweight RSS and Atom feed reader for FF.
* Scrapbook
* Web Developer Toolbar
XeroBank Browser (TorPark) - Firefox variation with Tor on a USB flash drive - great for internet cafes.

Note: This is one area where free is very good but (S&D excepted) the paid versions (that would be another thread) are better.
If you need to play in bad neighbourhoods real-time protection is well worth the investment.
AVG (Free Edition) Antivirus
AVG (Free Edition) Anti-Spyware (formerly Ewido)
Spybot, Search & Destroy
ThreatFire (Free Edition) - Host based Intrusion Prevention System (HIPS)

ConTEXT - my favorite programmer's text editor for Windows. I use this one just about every day!

JEdit - cross platform programmer's text editor. Can be extended via plug-ins. FTP plug-in can be very handy. Nice if you are stuck on a Mac

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Inkscape - Open source vector graphics editor.

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