Useful Cool Tools... and they're free

• ASAP Utilities add-on for Excel... Awesome tool for making your life with Excel easier
• http://www.asap-utilities.com/ 
• Example of uses: http://www.asap-utilities.com/asap-excel-tutorial-how-to.php
  
  
•  Expresso. An aweome RegEx Dev tool
• http://www.ultrapico.com/Expresso.htm



• PicPick: Free Screen Capture, image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, cross-hair and whiteboard all-in-one tool
• http://www.picpick.org/
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• TrueCrypt: on the fly volume encryption tool for Windows platforms
  http://www.truecrypt.org