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Links to Useful Tools
Office
- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~srg/softwaretools/presentation/TeX4PPT/
- Since TexPoint went commercial this plugin is the best one to combine PowerPoint with LaTeX.
- http://jabref.sourceforge.net
- JabRef -- a frontend for managing BibTeX files.
- http://www.streber-pm.org
- Powerful, web-based project management tool.
Graphics / Design
- http://www.xaraxtreme.org
- Great vector graphics program -- now open source!
- http://www.colorjack.com/sphere/?LoadJack=fu:17,blind:0,mode:0,model:1,maly:1,currMe:191x191,cpu:0.735,cpv:0.265,abu:0.9,abv:0.07358,aeu:0.4719,aev:0.52705
- Nice tool for creating color palettes.
- http://t16web.lanl.gov/Kawano/gnuplot/index-e.html
- Gnuplot not so frequently asked questions.
- http://freelanceswitch.com/working/34-places-to-get-design-inspiration-online-and-off/
- 34 places to get design inspiration.
- http://youthedesigner.com/2007/09/27/99-resources-a-graphic-designer-must-have#/
- Website with 100 links for graphic artists
- http://www.colourlovers.com/
- Collection of color palettes.
- http://inkscape.org
- Great vector drawing program similar to Adobe Illustrator (see also this nice website with tutorials)
- http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html
- Another color scheme generator.
- http://www.wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
- One more color scheme generator.
- http://www.autofx.com/utc.asp
- The ultimate texture collection.
Windows
- http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html
- The Ext2 IFS for Windows, letting you map ext2/3 partitions to windows drive letters.
- http://www.texniccenter.org
- TexnicCenter is an IDE for LaTeX.
- http://winscp.net
- Windows GUI-version of secure copy (scp).
- http://www.miktex.org
- LaTeX-Distribution for Windows.
- http://www.vim.org/download.php#pc
- GVim -- my favorite editor.
- http://www.cygwin.com
- GNU environment for Windows.
- http://pidgin.im
- Pidgin Multi-protocol instant messenger.
- http://www.openoffice.org
- Free and open source office suite.
- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
- Free ssh implementation for Windows.
- http://www.pdfforge.org/
- PDFForge -- free PDF creator software.
- http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
- Free CD burning program.
- http://ophcrack.sourceforge.net/
- Cracks Windows passwords.
- http://www.7-zip.org/
- 7-Zip -- free, open source decompressor.
- http://www.opensourcewindows.org/
- Comprehensive list of valuable Windows open source software.
Web
- http://browsershots.org
- For testing your website with different browser engines.
- http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/browserapp.html
- Neat idea: use Ubuntu in a VMware to protect against security risks (VMware player needed)
- http://colorfilter.wickline.org/
- Emulates how color-blind people see a web page.
- http://www.yaml.de/en/home.html
- YAML is a very nice CSS framework for multi column web design.
- http://www.feedparser.org/
- Great Pyhton parser for RSS/ATOM feeds.
- http://www.wikimatrix.org
- Big site that compares a huge number of wikis.
Misc
- http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.htm
- yEd, a great graph editor
- http://keepass.info
- Free Pass Password Safe -- cross platform password safe (runs even on palmtops and mobile phones)
- http://www.vmware.com/appliances/
- Large collection of free VMWare images.
- http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec
- PhotoRec, a tool for recovery of deleted files.
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