Best Free Productivity Programs Tips

Favorite Productivity Programs (mostly free)

• OpenOffice free and better than Microsoft Office www.openoffice.org
  
  
• Favorite text/Programming Editor : Vim www.vim.org
• Favorite OS : CygWin www.cygwin.com
• Favorite Shell : ZSH www.zsh.org

Favorite Utilities

• M8 is the simplest of all multi-clipboard programs free version m8software.com/
• ScreenScraper : kleptomania www.structurise.com
• Windows Text Replacement Utility : Shortkeys www.shortkeys.com
• Image Browser : www.irfanview.com
• Graphics : www.gimp.org

PHP/MySQL

• MySQL GUI : SQLYOG www.sqlyog.com Now free!!
• PHP/MySQL : PHPRUNNER www.phprunner.com
  

Favorite Web Hosting

• Hosting : Hostgator Widely held to be the best
  
• Free MySQL/PHP/cPanel Webhosting
• Best FTP Client filezilla.
  

Outsource your Website/Project

• Elance www.elance.com (Get a logo designed from $50 etc)

Access Your PC Remotely

• GoToMyPC GoToMyPC (from anywhere on the Internet) free trial
  

Mailing Lists

• There is Only Aweber aweber.com
  

Backup your Files Online Securely (Free up to 2GB)

• Mozy.com

Download Tip

• It is often quicker to download programs from http://www.download.com/ as often the "free" versions are hidden on the actual websites