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useful software tools and utilities

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These are pretty useful tools that makes my roles as a software developer much easier… will be updating this list over time…

Scite – Lightweight Powerful Text Editor: Though there are other ones like Notepad++, I found scite really comprehensive and amazingly fast, and based on screenshots only, I didn’t actually install Notepad++ to compare, I preferred scite. The link above has an installable that includes an Explorer integration – right click on any file and select Edit with Scite!

xmlnotepad 1.0: XML editor as light as notepad, with a heirarchichal list of nodes.

xmlnotepad 2007: heavyweight latest version of the above

Treepad lite: This is a pretty neat Notes-Organiser with which can organise notes in a heirarchical structure. What I do is I have a shortcut to a desktop.hjt file on my Windows Quicklaunch bar, so that I can use it. I like this much better than Outlook’s task notes, because of the heirarchy. “Award-winning Personal Information Manager, Organizer, Database, Word Processor, Photo Album, Web-generator + more!”

However for quite a while I’ve been looking for a decent heirarchichal task tracker on similar lines. Swift To-Do List Lite (freeware) came close, but the free version dosen’t allow me to export a sub-tree, which is really annoying. Did a lot of googling to come across a LOT of other software. But finally the one that’s a winner by far has got to be the ToDoList software on CodeProject created by AbstractSpoon… and on top of it, its open source (C++)!

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A more comprehensive list of utilities is at Scott Hanselman’s 2006 Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows which includes many tools that I’ve happened to have used as well.

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  1. Suresh Panje Avatar
    Suresh Panje

    Thank you dear Sanjay,
    Of course, for long it seems we had been observing ‘Moun Vrata’. Anyway, better late than never.
    Well, I am no IT savvy. Nonetheless, thanks a lot for sharing the info about info technology. I can pass it on to a good friend who could find it useful. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
    At the office I have been busy as a bee. As if to add insult to my injury of woes of being busy, I had sprained my right arm and it was bandaged for over a week.
    Nonetheless, all well. I wish to go down the memory lane and recall my days at Malleswaram.
    So once again thank you very much.
    God Bless
    With best wishes
    Sincerely yours
    Suresh Panje

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  2. msanjay Avatar
    msanjay

    Hey you’re welcome anytime Suresh… many thanks for your wishes! Hope you’re doing better now – right arm in a bandage sounds really incovenient 🙁 !

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