There are many tools available on the web that can save time and be really really helpful for developers.

Here is a list of our favourites and most heavily used tools.

1 Development Tools

Tool	Use	Link
Adobe Dreamweaver		http://www.adobe.com/ie/products/dreamweaver.html
Notepad ++		Notepad++
Microsoft Visual Studio		http://www.visualstudio.com/
NVIDIA CUDA Tools		https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-zone
About.com	The 10 Best Free Web Editors for Windows	http://webdesign.about.com/od/windowshtmleditors/tp/free-windows-editors.htm
	Is very useful when trying to work out the technology a site is built with	http://builtwith.com

2 Database Tools

Tool	Use	Link
MySQL Server		http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/
MySQL Workbench		http://www.mysql.com/products/workbench/
Percona	Slow Log Analyzer	http://www.percona.com/doc/percona-toolkit/2.2/pt-query-digest.html

Tool	Use	Link
Microsoft Internet Explorer		http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IE/internet-explorer/download-ie
Mozilla Firefox		http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
Google Chrome		http://www.google.com/intl/en_ie/chrome/browser/
Apple Safari		http://support.apple.com/kb/dl1531
Opera Opera		http://www.opera.com/computer/windows

Tool	Use	Link
Firebug		https://getfirebug.com/
BrowserStack		http://www.browserstack.com/

Tool	Use	Link
Encode URLs		http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/
HTML and XHTML Validation		http://validator.w3.org/
CSS Validation		http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
HTML Emails	Email construction notes	Writing_HTML_Emails
ColorMatch 5K		http://www.colormatch5k.com/

Tool	Use	Link
1001Free Fonts	Not all fonts are free when used commercially but a lot of free stuff	http://www.1001freefonts.com/
Adobe Captivate	eLearning content authoring.	http://www.adobe.com/ie/products/captivate.html
DVDVideoSoft	Video format conversion. Exceptionally useful for converting MP4, MKV, AVI, DIVX and others to SWF format for cross browser compatibility.	http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/
GIMP	Free GNU Image Manipulation Tool	http://www.gimp.org
iStock	Stock photography and illustrations	http://www.istockphoto.com/
Sparkol	Easily make videos appear as animated hand drawn output	http://www.sparkol.com/
	To learn more about converting to Flash format	Converting_MP4_to_SWF

Tool	Use	Link
CCCP		http://www.cccp-project.net/
DivX		http://www.divx.com/
Quicktime		http://www.apple.com/ie/quicktime/download/

Tool	Use	Link
7Zip		http://www.7-zip.org/
WinRar		http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
AVG Free		http://free.avg.com/ie-en/homepage
Spybot 1.6.2		http://www.safer-networking.org/mirrors16/
CCleaner		https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner
Clonezilla		http://clonezilla.org/
UBUNTU		http://www.ubuntu.com/

Tool	Use	Link
Kali	(Linux Debian Operating system)	http://www.kali.org/
Vega	(Windows based penetration Testing)	https://subgraph.com/vega/download/

Tool	Use	Link
Adobe Acrobat Viewer		http://get.adobe.com/reader/
Adobe Flash Viewer		http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
Adobe Shockwave Viewer		http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/
Microsoft Word Document Viewer		http://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/download/details.aspx?id=4
Microsoft Excel Document Viewer		http://www.microsoft.com/en-ie/download/details.aspx?id=10
Microsoft PowerPoint Document Viewer		http://www.microsoft.com/en-IE/download/details.aspx?id=6
Microsoft Visio Document Viewer		http://www.microsoft.com/en-IE/download/details.aspx?id=21701

Tool	Use	Link
TeamViewer		http://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/windows.aspx
Skype		http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-computer/
Filezilla		https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client
GIMP		http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
Flux		https://justgetflux.com/