Recommended
Software
The following is a list of the software
that I find very useful and would recommend :-
- Axialis
AX-Icons - Axialis
An excellent Icon editor with a very stylish front end. Fantastic for creating
multiple resolution icons. Shareware.
- Excel
Recovery - Concept Data
Useful for recovering the data in a corrupt Excel spreadsheet. Only restores
the values. Shareware.
- ICQ
- Mirabilis Ltd
An alternative to IRC. Includes Chat, Popup messages, e-mail, and others.
Freeware.
- InstallShield
- InstallShield Corporation
Only the greatest installation package for developers!
- LeapFTP
- LeapWare
Full featured FTP program - great for uploading websites to servers. Shareware.
- Mdb2Bas
- OPENWARE Software House
Handy little utility for converting MS Access tables to a Visual Basic .bas
file. You just have to add your own code for the queries. Freeware.
- Dreamweaver
- Macromedia
The best allround website development/management program around.
- Microsoft
PowerToys - Microsoft Corporation
A bunch of handy little utilities for Windows 95 written by the gents who
wrote Windows. The three best utilities would have to be TweakUI (for tweaking
the interface), Resolution changer, and CABViewer (for extracting files from
CAB files). Freeware.
- Microsoft
Technet - Microsoft Corporation
A resource for all technical support people. Microsoft Technical Support use
TechNet to find the answers to your questions. Contains all of the fixes,
white papers and lists of known bugs that have ever been through the MS Technical
Support Centre.
- Microsoft
Visual Basic - Microsoft Corporation
The biggest selling Rapid Application Development (RAD). Now up to version
6. VBA is a subset of this easy to use language.
- NetLab
- Alexander Danileiko
Very useful tool for the network administrator. Contains in one small package
- Ping, Trace, Whois, Time server, plus others. Freeware.
- PaintShop
Pro - JASC, Inc.
Probably the most widely used graphics manipulation software in the Windows
world due to its ease of use and the large range of supported graphics formats.
Shareware.
- RoboHelp
- Blue Sky software
An addon to Word which greatly simplifies the creation of Windows help files
for use with the applications that you develop. Will also create a useful
manual from the resulting help file.
- UltraEdit
- Ian D. Mead
This would have to be one of the most useful programs ever written. Not only
is it a text editor, but it is also a HEX editor, UNIX <-> Dos convertor,
colour syntax highlighting in HTML and VB files. It can edit in column mode
as well as do Find and Replace within a group of files in one go. Shareware.
- WinZip
- Nico Mak Computing, Inc.
The original and best graphical front-end for PKzip files. Can also create
self-extracting zip files. Shareware.