What software could you not do without?

[Rightz]

As a webmaster is often useful to have software to help you with your work - sometimes to cut corners, sometimes as a necessity.

My question to you is what software could you not live without?

[Rightz]

Just to clarify - I'm not asking you to advertise brands. Just curious what types of software you use regularly.

:)

[vivalasvegas]

My html editor and ftp client.

[victor]

The scripting language I use (not Perl, not PHP, not Ruby: without naming names: the other one).

I use it everyday to fix little things, analyse other things, and to write complete solutions to client problems.

[benihana]

a decent code editor, sftp, and PhotoShop

[Raymond]

Dope war :)
Editpad lite (just like notepad, but with tabs)
Firefox
WSFTP

[Rightz]

Does anyone use software to create scripts like a php form wizard or anything?

I only use fireworks,ftp and notepad but I wondered if I'm missing anything!?

[wolfadeus]

I don't pay too much attention to the html editor or ftp client that I use, but prefer frontpage and filezilla; on the other hand, I do pay much attention to the picture editor - photoshop is the only one I use.

Being a non-native speaker, the spelling check of Word often proves to be highly useful.

Browserwise, I need IE and Firefox to check my sites.

[txbakers]

Textpad. Can't live without it.
Fireworks
Outlook

I use something called PhotoZoomPro to get screen shots and convert them into 300dpi images for brochures.

[Easy_Coder]

The OS that runs ever so smoothly in my brain...

[Iguana]

I have a windows GZIP/TAR utility - I used to do my weekly update by FTP of 5,000 files, now it is only 5 gzip files and 5 commands in terminal mode to unzip

[carguy84]

visual studio 2005
enterprise manager
webdrive
smartftp
photoshop
RDP

[inbound]

Another vote for Textpad - The regex search/replace and ability to handle large files makes it ideal for all sorts of SQL generation and PHP coding tasks.
Also, strangely, I've developed a slight dependence on the calculator button on my keyboard. (not exacly a 'killer app' but very handy).

[Rightz]

LOL the noble calculation should not be forgotten.

What is this textpad. Never heard a thing about it. Using notepad here. May have to look into it.

[LifeinAsia]

database- without it, our sites would be worthless

games- without them for short breaks, *I* would be worthless

[Rightz]

oooooh i like the yahoo card games... although just tried my first few sukudo games. Could be playing more. Kinda adictive.

[StupidScript]

EditPad Lite (old favorite text editor)
EditPad Pro (for regex stuff ... but I like Lite better for editing)
MySQL
Photoshop/the GIMP (dep.on which OS I'm using)
SecureSSH
"V", the File Viewer (grep and multi-GB file viewing)
... and, of course, Apache ...

[D_Blackwell]

Rightz - Textpad is basically notepad, but with bells, whistles, and other cool stuff. There's a free version, but it's well worth paying for. I use notepad mostly, staying in touch with my caveman roots I reckon, but if there is a validation error on line 224, I reach for Textpad quick enough.

Must have:

Firefox

internet radio hober.com

[Animated]

where would be now without html:)

[BertieB]

PuTTY (or some telnet / SSH implementation, I just happen to like PuTTY). One of the first things I put on a fresh install, without which I could not admin my servers.

Perl is also very handy for getting certain taks done, but I don't use it to its full potential due to my relative 'newness' to it. Still, it has saved me a lot of time.

[Muffin_man]

You gotta have all the latest browsers and old ones too,
including all the Internet explorers (for some reason you can't install more then 1 at a time on a P.C), All Netscape, Firefox, Opera, Mozilla (without the fox) and even that new one "flock" is a good idea.

The better tested a site is the more visitors they can work with. Oh by the way you can download old browsers at: [browsers.evolt.org...]

I also like the worlds best coding software that is related to slepping, and even a "cute" ftp product.

The better tested a site is the more visitors they can work with. Oh by the way you can download old browsers at: [browsers.evolt.org...]