Handy little apps

Over the years i’ve found a few handy little applications that just make things so much easier (windows applications sorry linux and mac geeks ).

I’ll quickly list these below;

• Display Fusion
  This small little util makes working with multiply monitors a lot easier with some minor tweaks such as expanding the task bar to multiply monitors. You really need to look at this your self.
• Remote Desktop Manager
  This application isn’t just a replacement for RDP but allows you to connect to different protocols using one simple system. I would recommend it for any dev as it can do remote RDP through a VPN which you setup all in RDM so you don’t have to connect to the VPN and loose your internal network.
• IETester
  This is a must, you can use Virtual PC to do all your testing but sometimes you just need to quickly check this is your program.
• Notepad++
  This is a must it just works and you will never go back to the bad notepad
• WinMerge
  When you need to merge something or even compare directories this is your program.
• Teracopy
  This is a replacement for the bad windows copy, move etc. This allows pausing and resuming of copying files and is just quicker then the normal windows copy. A must have.
• UtiluMFC
  This is like IETester but has multiply version of Firefox
• Expresso
  This is for setting up regular expression for .net
• Linqpad
  For assisting with setting up linq statements

There are a lot more but these are just a few to get you started.