Web Tools – Part I

It had been a very long time since i went out of touch with my blogosphere. I was adding more and more items in my "To Blog" folders and they went obsolete at present. Anyway, to keep in touch, let me re-iterate few of the developments that interested me in widely used web tools.

1. Google Key board interface - Google Lab
2. Google News - New timeline feature
3. MSN retiring its online encyclopaedia "Encarta"
4. Ubuntu release 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope"

In addition, i also came across some nice tools from the web [thanks to the lifehacker feeds to my reader]
1. A new "slackware" based security specific linux distro Backtrack. It has lot of tools integrated to conduct ethical hacking. I am yet to explore 100% of them.
2. WriteMonkey - a new text editor using which this blog was composed. It is as good as a standard windows "notepad". However, it has a dark background and works in a full screen mode [i mean, there will not be any other icon, menu on the screen when it is used in the full screen mode. It will be only you and your text in a dark background - its interesting and also it goes well with your eyes]
3. Process Explorer - A windows power user interface. Gives lot more information than the usual windows "task manager"
4. Source Edit - Another multi purpose text editor, like the "Edit Plus", but, without any license fee. Yes, this tool is free as of now. I have not used most of its features, but, very useful to work with SQL queries. It also has an ftp interface to work directly on the host files.

I found all of the above to be very interesting. This is not a complete list and it will be growing as i continue to explore new features.

Regards,
bright