Usefull Tools

• editor: Notepad2 (free)
• screen capture: Screen Hunter 5 (free for business use)
• secure FTP client: Core FTP LE (free for business use)
• refactoring for C++: Refactor! (free for business use)
• cheap Photoshop-like: Paint.NET (free)
• browse .NET assemblies: Reflector (free)
• Web Apps: http://www.dumblittleman.com/2008/12/21-excellent-web-apps-for-college.html

Currently listening to...

• Martin Wolf - FT.com - Welcome to a world of runaway energy demand
• Channel 9 - MFC is back! - Pat Brenner: New Updates to MFC in Visual Studio 2008. This is quite an event. Nothing happened in MFC since Visual Studio 6 in 1998. I'm really surprised since I talked with a Visual Studio developer at TechEd who told me there would be nothing new for unmanaged C++ in Visual Studio 2008.