[tools]

This page lists some useful tools and links that I visit regularly. If you want to recommend others, please post them in the comments.

Tools

@icon sushi: Image to icon converter that supports the mask editor and the creation of Windows XP 32bit/Windows Vista format icons.
Inkscape: An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.
FileZilla Client: A free FTP tool that lets you easily upload and download files.
SimpleOCR: A simple, free OCR (optical character recognition) program that can extract text from scanned documents or images.

Programming Sites

PInvoke.net: A Wiki that provides declarations for API functions, user-defined types used by API functions, and other information related to calling Win32 and other unmanaged APIs from managed code (written in languages such as C# or VB.NET).
C# Helper: My C# site containing tips, tricks, and examples in C#.
VB Helper: My Visual Basic site containing thousands of tips, tricks, and examples in Visual Basic “Classic” and Visual Basic .NET.
Wolfram Mathworld: This site bills itself as “The Web’s Most Extensive Mathematics Resource” and it’s probably right! A great resource for all things mathematical.