Saturday, November 17, 2012

Password manager

keepass - the free and open source password manager

GTD - Task managers

gtd-free - very basic UI and feature set
taskunifier - good UI, support for real-time tracking against tasks with simple consolidation reports
taskcoach - good UI, just for task management.  No support for teal-time time tracking.
rachota - good UI, has support for real-time tracking against tasks with nice graphs
jello5 - integrates with outlook by using hta

MS Project alternatives

ganttproject
openproj
projectlibre

Saturday, September 20, 2008

Free tools and books

My growing list of sites offering free utilities:
  1. http://www.nirsoft.net
  2. http://www.portablefreeware.com
  3. http://www.theopendisc.com/programs
  4. http://www.incava.org/projects
  5. http://community.java.net/javatools
  6. http://java-source.net
My growing list of sites offering free books:
  1. http://infocenter.sybase.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.sybase.help.ase_15.0.sqlug/html/sqlug/title.htm&toc=/com.sybase.help.ase_15.0/toc.xml
  2. http://www.netbks.com
  3. http://www.feeditout.com/books/index.php
  4. http://www.esnips.com
  5. http://www.scribd.com
  6. http://www.ooad.org/main/J2EE_books.htm
  7. http://lab.lpicn.org/pub/books
  8. http://www.goldfish.org/books
  9. http://61.132.102.124/books
  10. http://www.onlinecomputerbooks.com/free-j2ee-books.php
  11. http://noc.unila.ac.id/~gigih/ebooks
  12. http://www.dhruvaraj.com/olbooks
  13. http://forums.techarena.in
  14. http://oebook.com/0-1.htm
  15. ftp://ftp.uar.net/pub/e-books
  16. http://www.chmpdf.com/archives
  17. http://www.ebooksportal.org/http://debian.yaako.org/books/?N=A
  18. http://www.techtoolblog.com/archives/195-free-online-programming-books
  19. http://www.comms.scitech.susx.ac.uk/fft
  20. http://bornpinoy.com/ebooks.htm
  21. http://ebook.brawijaya.ac.id/?file=manual
  22. http://www.oreilly.com/openbook
  23. http://www.flazx.com/index.php
Please leave a note if you find any of the above links is not working.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

IDEs

KompoZer
  • KompoZer is a freeware WYSIWYG IDE for HTML that allows you to create and edit web pages
  • No installation is necessary, just unzip and start using
  • Comes with many drag & drop templates, CSS editor, JS console
  • Inbuild preview and supports publishing to external websites
Easy-Eclipse
I use standard eclipse distribution for all standalone java applications. When it comes to web-applications or J2EE applications, easy provides that extra support in terms of integrating app/web servers and many rich templates. I did not find the default JS editor much helpful, so went for Aptana instead. This comes as standalone application as well as an eclipse plugin also and is very good in parsing JavaScript files and identifying all literal functions/objects defined.

Text Utilities

Notepad2
  • No installation and does not touch the registry, saves all setting to a .ini file
  • Based on scintilla editing component
  • Zooming of text, Syntax highlighting, auto tag closing for HTML and XML
  • Transparent mode is one of its unique features
Notepad++
  • No installation and doesn't touch the registry, saves all setting in .ini file
  • Based on scintilla editing component
  • Zooming of text, Syntax highlighting, auto tag closing for HTML and XML
  • Addons available for spell-checking, HTML page validation, Integrated explorer, File comparator, execution of file from editor, Function list, Hex editor...so many
Textpad
  • Not a freeware
  • Comes with more options than mentioned above
  • But when it comes to opening/editing/searching big files, textpad prevails over rest
  • Capable of searching files using reg-exs and within folders recursively