8 & 1/2 Free Appz I can’t Live Without
My laptop is my best bud! Designing @ NetBramha, I spend most of my time on my laptop. I aslo use it for listening to music, gaming, managing my iPod, catching up with my friends around the world and lots more…In fact I can confess that i am addicted to my Laptop, and these 8 & 1/2 applications makes it even more irresistible… Well these are some of the applications I can’t live without
1.Launchy:
I rarely touch mouse while navigating in Windows. Thanks to the Lauchy Opensource Keystroke launcher. With this you can rapidly do tasks like launching applications, running scripts, use as a calculator, … many more can be added by adding more plugins.
2. Digsby:
Gtalk + Yahoo… + LinkedIn + twitter I’m happy to have everything in a single App.
I know this came very recently and I lived through the age before that. But since I came across this superb piece of software, I can’t live without it anymore! 
3. muCommander:
A good replacement to the famous Total Commander which was unfortunately a paid software. muCommander is a lightweight cross-platform file manager, with features like support of FTP, SFTP….. Full keyboard access, in-built support for Archive files like ZIP, RAR, GZIP….. & many many more.
4. Firebug:
Its an addon to the Firefox. Just a keystroke away, with this you can inspect and edit live HTML pages, tweak CSS to perfection, debug JavaScript, monitor Network activity and the list goes on. A must tool for a web developer.
http://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1843
5. Kuler:
A great place to get color inspirations and even a great place to store your own color palettes privately or publicly. You can make color palettes from a base color or from a image(This feature I LOVE VERY MUCH!).
6. Gvim
I know there are hundreds of editors out there. But I some how got stuck on this brilliant editor!!!!
Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. Vim is often called a “programmer’s editor,” and so useful for programming that many consider it an entire IDE. It’s not just for programmers, though. Vim is perfect for all kinds of text editing, from composing email to editing and configuration of files. (Source: About @ Vim.org )
7. Cygwin
Earlier I really missed the commands like ls, Grep, diff, sed…. in Windows. but with Cygwin you can get all those super duper commands and other Unix tools in Windows. In windows it is very difficult to do tasks like cleaning up. svn folders from a project before deploying to production server. With Cygwin you can do this with just one line of code 
8 & 1/2. Dropbox
It’s a simple online file sharing/synchronizing app packed with features like automatic syncing, upload when internet is inactive,… and other cool features. With the free account you can share up to 2GB of data.
uTorrent, puTTy, Filezilla, Kmplayer… are again cool & useful free tools which I use everyday. But are replacable and I can handle my life with out them. 
So that was a small list of must have’s.
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[...] Its an addon to the Firefox . Just a keystroke away, with this you can inspect and edit live HTML pages, tweak CSS to perfection, debug JavaScript, monitor Network activity and the list goes on. A must tool for a web developer. More [...]
looks great
Regards: rizzy
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neat tools.. i have got addicted to launchy.. even to run apps that are in my quick launch.. thanks a ton..