Thomas Hampel

 9 November 2010
Working in the IT business for several years brings a lot of experience of using different tools to increase our own productivity.
Within this article I'm goping to share some tools which I believe are essential for a Domino Administrator.

Workstation

• IBM Support Assistant
• GIMP, a freeware image editor for complex graphics
• Picasa, useful for managing a large amount of pictures
• SnagIT
• Camtasia Studio
• Total Commander , file manager for people who grew up without a mouse.
• FreePDF XP , create PDF documents by printing them
• VideoLAN
• Google Earth
• Notepad++
• Wireshark - an excellent network traffic analyzer
• FaJo TimeTool, a gread freeware application to track time spent for different projects
• Dia or YEd as a replacement for Visio. Visio viewer will help

Lotus Notes Tools

• Teamstudio
• Ytria
• NotesPeek , allows to analyze Notes applications

Browser plugins, (of course for Firefox)

• AI Roboform - store and manage your (Web-) passwords in a secure way.
• IBM Support Bar - direct access to support material of IBM
• Firefox Sync - sync bookmarks across different computers/operating systems, incl. sync to iPhone
• BetterPrivacy - delete supercookies on the fly
• FireBug - even if you're not a web developer, this tool is a musthave to analyze HTTP related problems
• NoScript - musthave to keep a browser secure.

Other Interesting tools

• lucidchart.com - a browser based alternative to Visio