HandyLinks¶

• HandyLinks
• Archive Managers
• BrainStorming (Mindmapping)
• Difference Tools
• File Editors
• File Editor Plugins
• File Viewers
• File Transfer
• Installers
• Mass File Rename Tools
• 'nix tools
• Power Search Tools
• Remote and Multiple Desktops
• SysInternals Suite
• Telnet/SSH client
• Version Control
• Version Control Frontends

This is a compilation of tools and links that may be of use, or people are already using. It is by no means exhaustive or complete...

Archive Managers¶

• 7-Zip

BrainStorming (Mindmapping)¶

• FreeMind
• Mindjet

Difference Tools¶

• CompareIt
  File comparison - great GUI, simple, all required functionality.
• WinDiff
  Folder comparison - simple, effective, decent and useful GUI.
• Kdiff
• WinMerge

File Editors¶

• NotePad++
• UltaEdit32
• PsPad
• EditPad Pro
  Straight forward text editor, supports REs, nice GUI, fast, simple.

Detailed overview and usage tips at Code Editors.

File Editor Plugins¶

• ArmAScript
• UE SQF Highlight

File Viewers¶

• Log Expert

File Transfer¶

• FTP Sync
• Free Download Manager

Installers¶

• NSIS
• Inno Setup

DevHeaven wiki: NSIS

Mass File Rename Tools¶

• TheRename
• LupasRename
  Mass file renaming - simple, effective, tons of useful options,
  FAST, recursive, REs (a bit complicated though).

'nix tools¶

Includes all of those "can't live without" utilities

• Cygwin
• Msys

Power Search Tools¶

• PowerGrep
  List of regular expressions, nice GUI and preview, tons of useful options.
• RegEx Builder
• RegexBuddy
• SourceGlob
• File Search Assisant (windows)
  Simple, clean, powerful, export results into a text file etc.

DevHeaven wiki: RegularExpressions

Remote and Multiple Desktops¶

• Synergy
• Input Director
• Virtual Network Computing

SysInternals Suite¶

A whole suite of really useful windows tools to aid debugging and understanding.
Notable tools are:

• ProcessExplorer
• Procmon
• Filemon
• Regmon

Telnet/SSH client¶

• Putty

DevHeaven wiki: SSH-Keyset guide

Version Control¶

• Git
• Msysgit

DevHeaven wiki: What is a Version Control System

Version Control Frontends¶

• TortoiseGit
• GitExtensions

DevHeaven wiki: Git vs SVN comparison