Pavel’s Online Presence

Maximum PC has compiled a list of 30 useful web apps, some of which are definitely worth checking out. Here’s the link to the list, 30 Useful (and Unknown) Web Apps You Need to Bookmark.

A pretty good overview of Google Docs, an online office suite by Google — http://www.labnol.org/internet/office/google-docs-guide-tutorial/4999/

Freewaremission.com posted a list of 51 Essential Programs For A Freeware Only PC. The “Essential” part in the title is quite subjective and has to do mostly with author’s personal preferences. If you’re figuring out what freeware alternatives exist to your own “essential” non-freeware bunch of programs, checking out the following links might prove useful:

Google Code Blog announced the formation of an encyclopedia for web developers, Google Doctype.

In its current (beta) form, Google Doctype contains dozens of articles written by top Googlers on topics important to all web developers: security, performance, caching, DOM manipulation, CSS styling, and more. It contains over 8,000 lines of JavaScript code: Google’s own battle-tested JavaScript library, released today under a liberal open source license. And it contains the beginnings of a test-driven reference of the open web: a reference of every element, every attribute, every DOM method, every CSS property, all backed up by test cases.

From PC Magazine,

We’re going back to the basics: Our 2008 collection of utility software is all about tweaking, manipulating, and totally dominating the looks and functionality of Windows XP and Vista. These 91 tools provide all the help you need to control Windows. All the products work with XP and Vista unless indicated.

91 Utilities to Supercharge Windows

From computerworld,

We’ve found 15 great pieces of software — firewalls, spyware busters, antivirus software, rootkit killers, and general Internet security tools — designed to protect you against any dangers that come your way. They’re free, they’re powerful and they’re easy to use. So what are you waiting for? Start downloading.

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Lifehacker offers a list of free software for various design tasks…

Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies has compiled a list of the top 100 tools for learning.

This list (together with the collection of Top 10 Tools) is proving to be a popular resource to find out about the wide range of tools that can be used in a learning context, and is demonstrating that
e-learning is much much more than online courses.

Quote from the site that explains it all,

Every day we offer licensed software you’d have to buy otherwise, for free! Yes, we are giving away software, and you can download it from our site, right now and right here and our goal is to give away every good piece of software, sooner or later.

Dr. Dobb’s Journal runs a pretty good article that outlines basic steps in the STLC (Software Testing Life Cycle). The article gives brief but very useful descriptions of what should commonly take place at different stages in the STLC (Planning, Approach, Setup, Execute, Loop, Automate)…

eWeek is reporting,

Borland officials said the Cupertino, Calif., company is bringing back its Turbo brand of tools as a set of low-cost, language-specific rapid application development tools for students, hobbyist developers, occupational developers and individual programming professionals.
Turbo product set includes Turbo Delphi for Win32, Turbo Delphi for .Net, Turbo C++ and Turbo C#. Each version will be available in two editions: Turbo Explorer, a free downloadable version; and Turbo Professional, a version priced at less than $500…

MSDN Library May 2006 Edition and SQL Server 2005 Books Online (July 2006) are available for free download from Microsoft