Over time, a developer gathers tools that help him develop, code, and use their computer better. Scott Hanselman (another fellow OIT alumni) lists the tools he uses up on his website: http://www.hanselman.com/tools
I figured it wouldn't hurt if I did something similar with the tools I use every day.
· Windows PowerShell
· PowerShell Analyzer (though still use Notepad2 for most of my quick editing of PS scripts)
· Office OneNote 2007
· Google Desktop
· FolderShare
· 7-Zip
· BDD 2007 w/ WAIK (you never know when you need to boot into Vista's PE environment off a USB keydrive!)
· PortableApps.com (I keep multiple USB drives with different variations of of their suite of apps, one for development, one for casual everyday use such as chatting and surfing, etc.)
· Miranda (when not using Windows Live Messenger)
· Windows Live Messenger
· Visual Studio 2005
· Firefox
· Filezilla
· Thunderbird (works better for portable environments)
· Office Outlook 2007 (yeah, I use a bunch of different programs for email)
· XML Notepad 2007
· Eclipse
· TiddlyWiki
· Windows Vista
· Community Server 2007
· Subversion w/ TortoiseSVN
· Truecrypt
· uTorrent