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.