9 SciTE is a fast and lightweight text editor. If you don't care for the big and heavy IDEs and just want to get stuff done, SciTE fits the bill. I have used E-Texteditor and Komodo Edit for python programming in comparison, and the start up times were as follows:

Komodo Edit: 32 seconds
E-Texteditor: 16 seconds
SciTE: 1 second

SciTE is definitely the fastest Windows code editor around. The down side is configuration. You have to muck with a config file if you want to customize the theme or indentation settings or file extension or other tweaks.

10 Great library. I am using it for several projects now and am gradually preferring it over prototype. There are several things which jQuery does in a cleaner manner than prototype, in my opinion. One of which is the new data() methods that saves data with an element without risk of creating a circular reference, this is important because poor old IE6 doesn't know how to garbage collect. Overall, writing jQuery code is much more concise and clean than prototype code.

9 Firefox 3 is blazing fast compared to it's predecessor. This is a step in the right direction. Although there are reports of crashiness still, it has not happened to me. Some essential add-ons (like firebug) are still buggy with version 3, but that is expected and should sort itself out soon.

8 This tool works pretty well. It could be hard to figured out what command line parameters to use, so it takes some reading the help and other documentation and experimentation. It does what it does very well, which is converting video formats.

9 Capistrano is like Make except that It executes commands on any number of remote servers via ssh. It is very popular in the Ruby community for deploying apps, but it needn't be limited to that. Where it really shines is if you have a deployment procedure that requires you to do things on multiple machines, with capistrano you'll starting the cap command on your development box, and you are done. I've wrote a python script - using pexpect - to do a deployment procedure which required me to compile a Java app on the development box, do some svn tagging and other things, and then deploy to either the QA box or the PROD box. The QA box had very different user prudentials and directory structures than the PROD box, and the PROD box environment was super paranoid which meant I had to do a sudo su after logging in as another user. Doing this with pexpect worked, but was challenging, but capistrano is build exactly for this type of thing.