Aptana: The Aptana IDE is a free, open-source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused development environment for building Ajax applications. It features code assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, FTP/SFTP support and a JavaScript debugger to troubleshoot your code.

Link:
http://www.aptana.com/

Beyond Compare: Beyond Compare is a powerful time-saving utility for comparing files and folders on your Windows system.

Link:
http://www.scootersoftware.com/moreinfo.php

GIMP: GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages.

Link:
http://www.gimp.org/

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