List of very useful software tools

[Erel]

Here is a short list of very useful tools that I use almost daily:

- Notepad++ - This tool is a must for developers. It has many useful features. Too many to list here. The encoding stuff and proper handling of different new line characters solves many issues.

- Firefox + Firebug - This one is well known to all web developers, however it is also very useful when interacting with web services. You can easily see the browser communication.

- zscreen - A very good screenshot tool. It is especially useful for me as it can be configured to automatically upload the images to a FTP server.

- CoreFTP - Excellent FTP client.

- AutoHotkey - Allows you to create scripts and run them from keyboard shortcuts. As an example I'm using it to build the libraries jar files and copy them to the required folder.

- Looken (commercial) - A decent search engine for Microsoft Outlook. Much better than the original one. At least on my Outlook which is a bit old...

- 7-Zip - Compression tool that supports all common formats.

- Paint.NET - Pretty powerful image editor.

- novaPDF (commercial) - Creates PDF files. Unlike the free alternatives it supports hyperlinks and other advanced features. A good free alternative is: Bullzip.

That's it.
If you want to only try a single tool then go for Notepad++.

[agraham]

Not to mention JD-GUI | Java Decompiler for poking around inside .jar and .class files.

[Amalkotey]

I recommend:

gSyncit for Outlook

Synchronize your Outlook calendars, contacts, notes and tasks with and Google calendar, documents, and Gmail contacts.

[evilpaw]

Another tool that I have found very useful is SQLiteExpert (Commercial).

Its works will with SQlite databases created on Android, php and windows. It also has the ability to create SQL scripts incuding DDL scripts.

sqlite expert

[ozgureffe]

If you are not tidy while saving you files, dont forget to add ultimate search engine for Win.
Fast, small, easy and works in real time.

Everything Search Engine

You can easily find your files in just a few seconds..

[Rui]

Don´t forget to backup

Cobian Backup

[Jim]

I've found Android has some issues with certain .wav files, as of late I've taken advantage of Online Audio Converter (MP3, WAV, Ogg, WMA, M4A, AAC) – media.io to quickly convert .wav to .mp3 which typically play correctly and are smaller in file size.

[vb1992]

Here is interesting (free) software for Android,
kind of like the MS Office Suite.

Quickoffice » Device Selection

The thing I noticed is that the offer page shows you
all the possible devices that it's offered on, so you click
it (and they track the download of what device), though
they don't have the Galaxy Tab 10.1 listed.

I think it's $15 bucks, but free now.

[agraham]

I have QuickOffice Pro HD on my Xoom but I've not really used it yet. There is a specific Honeycomb tablet version available Quickoffice Pro HD for Android.

[Jim Brown]

For creating audio samples an excellent little application called sxfr is just the ticket