Here are some tools and blog sites that I use/frequent.
General
ClipX - Great tool for keeping a history of
things you've copied to the clipboard (text and images) adding the
ability to quickly access that history with shortcut keys.
IIS Admin - Ignore if you
use Windows 7. Allows for multiple websites in IIS in XP.
Fiddler - Web Debugging
Proxy - This tool has saved my life dozens of times. Great for
debugging web/service requests/responses.
jQuery - Write Less, Do More -
If this JavaScript framework was a person, I would marry it.
JSFIDDLE - Great online tool for testing out
JavaScript, HTML and CSS with various JavaScript frameworks
(jQuery, most importantly)
Launchy - Indexes your start/programs menu (and
whatever else you want) and with a couple keystrokes you can
quickly search and run what you're looking for. I never open my
start menu thanks to this program.
Microsoft
Web Platform Installer 2.0 - Program for installing and
updating various frameworks, server/database tools and popular
applications (Wordpress, Joomla, etc.)
Process Monitor
v2.93 - Monitoring system that allows you to see real-time file
system, registry and process/thread activity. Great for
debugging.
soapUI - Pretty cool tool (despite being
Java-based) for testing/debugging web services.
Visual jQuery - A
jQuery-Driven API for the jQuery Library - API reference for
the jQuery framework.
WinDirStat - Running low on disk space? This
is a neat little tool that will tell you what directories are
taking up the most space.
Firefox
If you're a web developer, chances are you're using Chrome or
Firefox for most of your development because they both sport some
pretty snazzy plugins/tools for web development.
Although Google's Chrome browser is picking up in popularity and
has some decent plugins, I'm still a fan of Firefox so I primarily
use it for development. What about IE? Well...we'll see how v9
goes. :)
Delicious Bookmarks
- If you use Delicious to keep track of sites you liked, then this
is a handy tool to have. Logs into your account and lets you access
your Delicious bookmarks from a side bar.
Firebug - I use this to inspect
HTML, CSS, web requests & responses--which is awesome for
figuring-out what's going on with all of your AJAX requests--and to
debug JavaScript.
Firecookie - An extension
for Firebug that lets you view and manipulate your browser's
cookies.
Greasemonkey - Lets you
run JavaScript against any site you want. Great for tweaking sites
you frequent to get rid of annoying ads or even restructure DOM
elements with jQuery.
Screengrab - Lets you take a
snapshot of a portion of the browser window or everything in the
window (including content out of the screen). Great for doing
screenshots for clients.
Web Developer
Toolbar - A must tool for any developer.