Zzappers Favorite Programs Tips

Favorite Programs

• Favorite Browser : Opera http://www.opera.com/ Opera has really genial "hidden features"
• Favorite Editor : Vim http://www.vim.org/
• Favorite OS : CygWin http://www.cygwin.com/
• Favorite Shell : ZSH http://www.zsh.org/

Favorite Utilities

• MySQL GUI : SQLYOG www.sqlyog.com Now free!!
• ScreenScraper : kleptomania http://www.structurise.com/kleptomania/
• Windows Text Replacement Utility : Shortkeys http://www.shortkeys.com/
• Image Browser : http://www.irfanview.com/
• Graphics : www.gimp.org

Code Generator

• PHP/MySQL : PHPRUNNER www.phprunner.com

Favorite Hosting Company

• Hosting : supanames http://www.supanames.co.uk/ from £13.99 a year (including domain)

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Zsh is sometimes described as a superset of Bash (ie you don't need to chuck away your bash knowledge)

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