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I use these tools for my daily activities. You may find them useful too.

  • Wordpress – The most popular open source blogging platform.
  • Broken Link Checker – This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found.
  • Easy ReTweet – is a WordPress Plugin, which let’s you add retweet or Tweet this buttons for your WordPress posts, together with the retweet count.
  • MeeNews – create a newsletter directly from your blog
  • Mobile Blogging: To generate mobile friendly pages of your blog and also post from your mobile (including iPhone / iPod Touch).
  • Photodropper: Plugin for including photos that have been licensed under Creative Commons, which means that anyone can use it on their own website, as long as the photographer is given attribution and a link.
  • Themes

  • Firefox browser
  • Echofon – notifies you of your friends’ status on Twitter and lets you make posts from your browser status bar. It also allows you to switch between multiple Twitter accounts in one click.
  • Fast Dial – gives the Opera feature in Firefox to access your favorite websites.
  • Firefox Throttle: is a small extension that allows you to cap download/upload rates and monitor current bandwidth utilization.
  • Grammar Checker: Check spelling, grammar of what you write
  • GreaseMonkey – is a Firefox extension that allows you to customize the way webpages look and function.
  • HTML Tidy – helps me to check how clean the html code of the page, this is purely for techies/webmasters.
  • Lori – Life-of-request can tell you how long it takes to load a page. Page Speed could be an overkill, Lori gives a quick glance of what we need
  • LinkChecker – Check webpage links at a glance with simple color coding.
  • MemoryFox – (windows only) focuses on two ( 2 ) types of memory usage and with flushing for memory recovery.
  • Organize Status Bar – move around the icons you see in Firefox status bar (bottom of browser)
  • Page Speed – is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them.
  • Screengrab – is an extension for Firefox that makes it easy to save a web-page as an image. With it, you can save anything that you can see in a browser window – from a small selection, to a complete page.
  • SearchBastard -  Search multiple search engines with one click
  • Search Status – gives a quick overview of the Google, Alexa and Compete (not very relevant for India) Page Ranks
  • Shareaholic – If you use sites like Facebook, MySpace, Digg, Gmail, Twitter you’ll want Shareaholic. Shareaholic enables you to quickly, and very easily share, bookmark, and e-mail web pages via a wide array of your favorite web 2.0 social networking & bookmarking sites — such as Digg, Facebook, Mixx, Gmail, MySpace, StumbleUpon, and many many others.
  • Spell Check – This is not an add on but to activate the inline spell check feature, as you type it will warn you if you there is a typo.
  • Vacuum your Firefox database to make it faster.


  • Thunderbird email client
  • Lightning – a neat Calendar within Thunderbird. This may not work with TB 3.0
  • MailTweak – provides many neat utilities built over default features.
  • MozBackup – used for backing up Thunderbird profiles which can be used later during restoration (disk crash etc)
  • Remove duplicates – at times when you import mail from a client like Eudora/Outlook to Thunderbird there could be a chance of having duplicate emails/folders in Thunderbird. Get rid of those duplicates
  • XPunge – This compacts and empties all your Trash folders. You can set a timer to do this task or do it manually. This may not work with TB 3.0
  • Keep TB running smooth.
  • DragDropUpload – seems to be better than gAttachi (used to drag files into the attachment box)
  • gAttachi – attaches files from Windows Explorer, MS Office, Acrobat directly into your gmail account.
  • yAttach – attaches files from Windows Explorer, MS Office, Acrobat directly into your Yahoo mail account.


  • Gallery – a popular gallery package for websites.
  • Picasa – to organize your snaps on your desktop.
  • Flickr – one of the best web based image/photo portal
  • Picasa2Gallery – to upload from Picasa3 to Gallery2
  • Picasa2Facebook – upload photos to Facebook from Picasa.
  • Picasa2Flickr – add on for picasa to push your snaps to flickr.
  • Gimp – a good alternative to the expensive Photoshop. GimpShop makes hardcore photoshop users feel comfortable with Gimp.
  • Images/photo stock – a list of free and commercial photo providers


  • pidgin – is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. Basically you need just this one IM.


  • Power Toys for Windows XP: PowerToys add fun and functionality to the Windows experience. Advanced calculator, image resizer etc.
  • AVG Free Anti Virus
  • CCleaner – is a freeware system optimization, privacy and cleaning tool. It removes unused files from your system – allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. Additionally it contains a fully featured registry cleaner.
  • FolderSize – shows the size of folders in Explorer. A must have tool.
  • MalwareBytes – has developed a variety of tools that can identify and remove malicious software from your computer.
  • Notepad++ – a better notepad
  • Search – Void tools is far better than Google Desktop search.
  • TechTracker – check if you have any outdated software on your PC
  • TinySpell – a spellchecker that monitors your spelling in all text that you input in any program.
  • Uninstaller – Revo Uninstaller kills all registry keys, folders efficiently

  • AVG Free Anti Virus
  • Panda Cloud Anti virus – free
  • Spybot – Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies.

  • Background – create twitter backgrounds
  • BackupMyTweets – backup your tweets, first year free
  • Facebook app – Your status from twitter gets reflected in Facebook (unable to install these days for new users on facebook)
  • Echofon – notifies you of your friends’ status on Twitter and lets you make posts from your browser status bar. It also allows you to switch between multiple Twitter accounts in one click.
  • OneForty – Find the Best Twitter Apps for the iPhone, Blackberry, Web
  • Qwitter – e-mails you when someone stops following you on Twitter
  • StrawPoll – get response to your polls from your twitter followers.
  • TwitterFeed – Feed your blog’s or site’s RSS feed into a Twitter account thru TwitterFeed. You can configure TwitterFeed to use bit.ly which gives awesome statistics about the click-thrus (shows how many on twitter clicked on your tweet)
  • TwitterGadget: Get  tweets in your gmail account.
  • twtapps – Some cool apps for twitter.
  • Twitter search results in Google search (needs Greasemonkey)
  • Twitsnaps – allows you to tweet your photographs from the phone, through API, and the web. Use your twitter id to login!
  • Reports / Analyzing tools
    • FriendorFollow – Who are you following that’s not following you back? Who’s following you that you’re not following back? Find out! So who is not following me back?
    • GraphEdge – analyzes the activity of your Twitter account.
    • TweetStats – shows interesting graphs of your account. Let us check mine!
    • Twitalyzer – analyzes the quality of a Twitter account
    • TwitBlock – check if any spammers are following you
    • TwitterCounter – compare upto 3 Twitter accounts (in terms of followers)
    • Twitter Grader: Grade your twitter account. Let us check mine!
    • TwitterHolic – Alexa equivalent for twitter? Ranks you in the world and the city you are from
    • Twitturly – tracks popular URLs on Twitter (tweets) real time


Etc

  • 7-Zip: Opensource zip utility.
  • Alternate Software: Find which are the alternate solutions to popular software packages like Photoshop, Word etc for Windows, Mac, Linux and online platforms.
  • FaxZero: Send two free faxes a day to US and Canada
  • Stock.xchng: free stock photo site.
  • Video Media Player
Find the Best Twitter Apps for the iPhone, Blackberry, Web