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Continuous integration tool made by Thoughtworks. Allows project automated build and unit test execution.
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.NET library to process HTML files using DOM methods such as XPATH and XSLT. Could be used for processing malformed HTML files, which are not processable by XML parser
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The Microsoft Web Protection Library (WPL) is a set of .NET assemblies which will help you protect your web sites, current, future and past. The WPL includes AntiXSS – encoding functions for user input, including HTML, HTML attributes, XML, CSS and JavaScript and Security Runtime Engine – a wrapper around your existing web sites, ensuring that common attack vectors to not make it to your application
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Template based code generation tool for .NET. Integrates with multiple databases for ORM class generation
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Open source unit test coverage reporting tool.
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One of the most useful plugins for Visual Studio. Makes static analysis of the source code and highlights problem areas. Also simplifies code navigation and refactoring, in code view unit test execution. Not free, but it’s definelely worth it.
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Hides advertisements from pages
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Integrates Delicious bookmarks with browser
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File download manager built in into Firefox
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Faster navigation by using mouse gestures
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Creates screenshots of web pages (entirely or just visible part). Windows only
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Best browser debugger for your JavaScript, CSS and HTML
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Offers the ability to upload or download files to and from most of your favourite sites through one interface. The interface, which opens in a Firefox browser tab, looks much like that of FTP clients with a dual-pane layout. It displays files on your PC on the left, files on the selected website on the right, and status or information in a panel on the bottom. The extension addresses the limitation of the standard upload mechanism where you can upload only one file at a time.
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Provides download manager integration for loading multiple web links, saving YouTube videos
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Selectively blocks flash animations
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Switch your browser proxy settings quickly
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If you have a device with smaller screen, such as netbook, this plugin allows you to run Firefox in convenient to use full screen mode. The full screen functionality in Firefox does not provide some functionality
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Allows changing and extention of any web page with custom JavaScript. Has large number of ready to use scripts for improving the look of some popular web sites.
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Online service to store your login passwords and registration form details. I would use it for storing all non-critical accounts. Makes life easier by making automatic login to websites, registration form prefilling and sharing your account details accross multiple computers.
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Provides convenient image upload directly from browser by right clicking on image. Supports FTP and Image Shack service. After files has been uploaded, its URL is sent to clipboard. Very convenient for posting images to your blog
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Displays information about displayed page from SEO perspective
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Makes screenshot of the web page. Not as good as Fireshot, but this one work on Linux.
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WordPress blogging from Firefox (also supports other applications)
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Used for UI testing, but can also be used for scripting repeatable actions. See also Selenium.
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Web Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP(S) traffic between your computer and the Internet. Allows you to inspect all HTTP(S) traffic, set breakpoints, and “fiddle” with incoming or outgoing data including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and others
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Free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish).
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Version of open source password manager KeePass for Linux. Password files format is compatible between them, so you can keep your password secure on both platforms
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Nessus security scanner. Provides automated check for most common security vulnerabilities
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Open source HTTP debugging proxy with extended support for event filtering, replacing HTTP requst/response data on the fly, etc. Could be also used for web site penetration testing and security cheking. Similar to Fiddler in some aspects, but, since its written in Java it is good for both Windows and Linux. Open source
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Free open source on-the-fly disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP/2000 and Linux
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Open source HTTP proxy written in Java allowing you to inspect HTTP traffic. Compared to other tools, like Fiddler, it allows you to create more fine grained filtering and request/response analysis.
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Web server fingerprinting tool. Relies on web server characteristics to accurately identify web servers, even if they have been obfuscated by changing the server banner strings.
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Open source multiplatform file compression tool. Supports all major archive formats and provides both GUI and command line interfaces. Why people are still using WinZip?
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Open source application allows creation of scripts to automate mouse and keyboard tasks in Windows
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Extension to the standard windows clipboard. It saves each item placed on the clipboard allowing you access to any of those items at a later time. Ditto allows you to save any type of information that can be put on the clipboard, text, images, html, custom formats
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Makes a screehshot of selected area on the screen and allows to make notes directly on the image. A free alternative to SnagIt
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The Open Source Keystroke Launcher. Start your apps quickly without “Start” button
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Useful collection of small utilities from Microsoft. Get better Alt-Tab window, tune your ClearType settings to get a better font rendering on LCD, enable virtual desktops, preview RAW files in Windows Explorer and others
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Open source tool for PDF document creation. Great alternative to commercial tools like Adobe Acrobat
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Advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity.
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Screenshot application for Linux similar to SnagIt application in Windows. Distributed under GPL
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Web-Harvest is Open Source Web Data Extraction tool written in Java. Uses XSLT, XQuery and Regular Expressions for text and XML manipulation
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Free SFTP and FTP client for Windows. Transfer files from Windows to Linux over secure connection using SSH connection
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web picture editor allows to crop, resize, add text and store images for further linking
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Checks your DNS entries for errors
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Check you DNS record update propagation using 13 DNS servers accross the planet
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Search for code snippets examples using plain strings or regular expressions
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Best web based RSS reader. Fetches new articles from server using Ajax, so no more navigating to next page while viewing articles. Some desktop and mobile RSS readers integrate with Google Reader in order to keep read and unread articles in sync.
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Search for source code example. Allows filtering of search results by language and license type
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Test your regular expression in web browser. Supports .NET, JavaScript and Silverlight regular expression libraries
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Shows additional keyword suggestions, average AdWords price per click for given website and keywords
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Provides services to scale image to any size and compression, apply sharpen filter, convert into monochome or tinted, add border. Also shows the result with its file size and dimensions.
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Website converts any HTML page into FB2 or epub file format for reading on e-book reader
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Ultimate web page performance testing tools. Provides detailed page download timeline, location of IP addresses, CPU utilization and other parameters. Provides a selection of test server in different locations.
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Monitors your website and reports via e-mail if site is unavailable or contains (or does not contain) certain string on configured URL address. Cost: free
