EW:Links

Here are some useful links that I use quite often

Media

● Drudge report
● Savage website
● Savage radio talk show (6pm--9pm EST)
● Columns by Lev Navrozov
● IHateTheMedia.com
● WorldNetDaily
● American Thinker
● Nick's Jr. Harvard website
● Iischers radio
● Crackle
● Hulu
● Netflix

Educational & Informational

● Dictionary
● Answers.com
● Wikipedia
● Bing 3D maps
● Bing new 3D maps
● Merriam-Webster dictionary

Web Development & Programming

● Microsoft official Silverlight website
● Electric Beach
● Microsoft Silverlight informational website
● Silverlight tips, tricks, tutorials and links
● Silverlight show
● Project Rosetta
● W3 schools
● JavaScript kit
● JavaScript source
● Dynamic drive
● Web debugger Fiddler
● C# tutorials and samples
● Microsoft official IIS website
● IIS 7 configuration reference

Software

● Softpedia
● DNS check
● Merak email server
● Simple DNS Plus
● Scripting with Windows PowerShell
● Windows life-cycle policy
● Microsoft update catalog
● MSDN home page
● MSDN code gallery
● SlickEdit
● Windows sysinternals
● Webdrive
● WinZip
● Silverlight Toolkit
● Novell Silverlight project for Unix (Moonlight)
● Microsoft Expression family of products

My favorite tools and utilities...

Programming & Porting

SlickEdit: the best editor in the market that I am aware of. Extremely useful for development, porting, etc. Before I used CodeWright which was another good editor for its time but, unfortunately, the original developer Premia went out of business, and CodeWright ended up owned by Borland who after 2 or so years discontinued it as a product. CodeWright is now a relic of the past. So I use SlickEdit that in many respects even better than CodeWright.

Web debugger Fiddler: an amazingly useful debugger that intercepts all HTTP(S) traffic.

Microsoft Expression Studio: an amazing suite of visual tools for building standard based websites, design and build Silverlight web applications and much more.

Microsoft Visual Studio: without any doubt the best development and debugging visual tool.

InstallShield: an easy-to-use graphical tool for developing software installations using the underlying Microsoft installer service. One needs to get used to it. After that, installation development goes like a charm.

Communication

Microsoft Office Outlook: I use Outlook from almost day #1. Before I used Qualcomm's Eudora. Now I cannot imagine living without Outlook.

Windows Live Messenger: I like it. It never gives me any trouble in terms of post-installation damage to the system, etc. And it is getting better and better.

Webdrive: an extremely useful and indispensible tool. It maps a remote file server as a local drive in the Windows Explorer allowing using the remote server from the command line, scripts, or just as a graphical interface in the Windows Explorer with all the copy/paste and drag 'n drop functionality. Webdrive can connect to FTP, FTPS, SFTP, S3 and WebDAV servers.

Icewarp Merak Email Server: a very good email server with all the anti-spam features possible. After getting used to it and setting up everything correctly, I have zero spam.

Simple DNS Plus: this is a much better DNS server solution compared to the Microsoft built-in DNS service. It has a good GUI and a bunch of options that makes it amazingly flexible and easy to use at the same time.

Other Useful Utilities

WinZip: I've been using WinZip forever and it just keeps getting better and better. The best thing is that it fully integrates with the Windows Explorer. This makes zipping/unzipping/viewing archive contents, etc. very quick and easy.

Some Websites as Utilities

Speedtest: tests your internet connection up and down speed.

IntoDNS: tests your domain DNS server configuration and warns about any problems.