Free Tools
Blogs, lens, hub pages And Websites
PluginCentral – Can be found at: WordPress › WordPress Plugins
Kind of like a one-stop solution for quickly activating multiple WordPress plugins. It currently is able to activate the following plugins.
AddThis – Social Bookmarking Widget
Add to any – RSS reader
Add to Any Share/Save/Bookmark Button
Akismet
All in One SEO Pack
Broken Link Checker
Category Icons
cformsII – contact form
Google Analytics for WordPress
Google XML Sitemaps
HeadSpace2
Members Only
My Category Order
One Click Plugin Updater
Platinum SEO Pack
Plugin Central
Plugin Manager
podPress
Register Plus
SEO Smart Links
SEO Friendly Images
ShareThis
Simple Tags
Smart Youtube
Sociable
Subscribe to Comments
Twitter Tools
Wordpress Automatic upgrade
WordPress.com Stats
WP-Affiliate
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
WP to Twitter
WP-EMail
WP-Print
Browser Checks
BrowserShots – Not all browsers are made the same and everyone tends to use different browsers. Check your site here and you can see which browsers are not allowing your site to appear correctly.
Down for everyone or just me? – If your site is not coming up in your browser you can run a check this tool to see if it’s down for other people too.
Email, Conferencing, Meetings, Business Administration and More
Skype – Superb messenger and VoIP software that is enhanced when used with Pamela.biz
Skype: Skype ? Make free calls and great value calls on the internet
Gmail*: http://www.gmail.com
Incredimail A great Email client with loads of great backgrounds, smileys, animations and even e-cards.
Evernote – Email anything, handwritten or printed, OCR will be run and archived on continuous basis…perfect for receipts, notes, photos, signs…anything. Access it via desktop, web or iPhone.
LogMeIn Free Log into PC remotely…even through iPhone
Thunderbird - Desktop Email that leaves emails on server via IMAP
ShoeBoxed – Email or Scan/Upload your receipts, they auto-categorize them for tax time
FreshBooks – Invoicing service
Deskaway – Great online team collaboration
Zoho Meeting – Hold free meetings
Zoho – Hosted, Free Online Apps for CRM, Docs, Notebook, Sharing, Writer, Mail, Meetings, Discussions, Recruiting, Chat, Wiki, Slideshow, more
TokBox – Video Chat and Web Meetings w/ 20 People for Free
FreeConferenceCalling – Free conference calls with 500 participants, mp3 recordings provided
Yahoo! Messenger - Use it for working with partners and developers
PuTTY – An SSH and Telnet Client
PuTTY: a free telnet/ssh client
File Access, Help & Protection
DropBox – Local PC Backup to 2gb, You can access your files from anywhere; web, iphone, etc.
TrueCrypt – Free encryption software to protect your drives and files
Bulk Rename – Rename a bunch of files quickly
Space Sniffer – Find out what’s taking up all your hard drive space.
Baby Smash! – For those that have a small child that likes to smash on a keyboard.
Firefox extensions:
FireBug – developer focused tool but you need it for the next extension
YSlow for FireBug – analyzes your website for 13 different rules for high performance web sites. A great tool to identify some potential bottlenecks in your site’s performance.
The home of Spybot-S&D! – Best free anti spyware/adware
FTP
WIN SCP – An FTP and SFTP utility for Windows
WinSCP :: Free SFTP and FTP client for Windows
LeechFTP – Super fast, multi-threaded. Great when uploading a lot of pages.
Filezilla: FileZilla – Client Download
Graphics, Images & Design Tools
GIMP – Graphics Editor. For those of us who can’t afford PhotoShop
GIMP – The GNU Image Manipulation Program
Paint.NET – Image editing. Windows programs/utilities
PhotoFiltre – PhotoShop like editing http://photofiltre.free.fr/frames_en.htm
Launcher Apps And More
Launchy: The Open Source Keystroke Launcher
SlickRun – Launcher app
Humanized Enso – Launcher app and dictionary
PortableApps.com – A suite of apps that you can run from a USB thumb drive.
7 – ZIP – The best unarchiving utility for Windows
7-Zip
Misc.
Desktop Weather This little gadget sits in your taskbar down by the clock and lets you know if there are any weather warnings or alerts you should know about.
Notes, To-Do Lists and Time Management Tools
Evernote – Manage notes and To-Do lists.
Remember The Milk – Manage notes and To-Do lists.
ToodleDo – Task Management
14Dayz – Time Tracking tool
Timeleft – A time management application from TimeLeft – Countdown, reminder, clock, alarm clock, tray clock, stopwatch, timer, sticker, auction watch and time synchronization utility.
PHP editors, HTML editors, etc.
PS Pad Text Editor – Lots of great features for editing PHP, CSS and HTML.
editor PSPad – freeware HTML editor, PHP editor, XHTML, JavaScript, ASP, Perl, C, HEX editor
Kompozer – a WYSIWYG HTML Editor
KompoZer – Easy web authoring
MySQL GUI Tools – For those developing on a local MySQL Database
MySQL :: MySQL GUI Tools
WinMerge (Compare any text document side by side. Perfect for HTML, PHP, text, etc
Tunes, Sounds, & Videos
ScreenToaster, CamStudio, BB Flashbank, Jing – Recording Video Demos and Tutorials -Camtasia Alternatives.
WINK – Like Camtasia only it’s free
VLC media player – allows you to watch almost any downloaded video
CDBurnerXP – Free CD/DVD Burning Utility
TVersity - Stream movies/audio straight to your iPhone over Wifi/3G with on-the-fly conversion
Format Factory Format Factory – Free media file format converter
Loopsound - Royalty-free Music
ScreenPrint32 – Screen Captures – Good alternative to SnagIt
AutoScreenRecorder – ScreenHunter:
both free from Wisdom-Soft
Audacity: Audacity: Download
Apple – iTunes – Download iTunes Now – for the free internet radio
Website Help
OSTicket - Open Source Help Desk Software
ClickTale – Literally “see” what your visitors are doing on their website + heatmaps
DomainsBot - Blazing-Fast Domain checking using Ajax
Open X – Your Own, Free Web-Based Ad Server – Let’s you track clickthroughs, impressions
xheader.com – Really easy free software to create headers. Comes with 50 built in headers and you can download 500 more if you register for free.
Pixel Ruler: Your free virtual screen ruler | Mioplanet
