You can download the free version at http://www.any-video-converter.com/products/for_video_free/

Input formats:
avi, asf, mov, rm, rmvb, flv, mkv, mpg, 3gp, m4v, vob, YouTube videos

Output formats:
avi, mp4, wmv, swf, flv, mkv, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2, mpg (PAL or NTSC), mp3, wma, ogg, aac, wave, m4a

Manage data tables, export/import databases, synchronise tables between databases, integrity check, database backup service management, edit database content and many more features packaged as a solution for ALL your MySQL needs.

This runs on windows platforms – WinXP/XP7 and you can download HeidiSQL from Download link

Another GUI tool that is available in the market is MySQL Workbench. The OSS edition of this tool is available under GPL and provides database administrators with database design, modeling with an intuitive GUI. Download MySQL Workbench

To convert mp3 to audio (cda) format, all you need to do is to select InfraRecorder » choose Audio Disc » drag the MP3 file to file list » Click Burn the current compilation to disc

Using InfraRecorder, you can also compile a CD/DVD, record disc images (ISO, BIN, CUE), record dual layer DVD’s, fixate discs and many such features.

You can check InfraRecorder at http://infrarecorder.org

pdfsam is distributed under GPL license and requires Java Virtual Machine 1.4.2 or higher.

This tools helps you in splitting PDF documents into individual pages, merge many pages into a single document, extract odd/even pages and many other features in its basic version.

To learn more about this tool or to download a copy of it visit pdfsam.org

Notes for a beginner …
* VMWare Player and VMWare Server are available for free
* A .vmdk file is the virtual hard drive for the guest OS
* A .nvram file stores the BIOS settings of the virtual machine
* A .vmx file stores the configuration settings for the virtual machine. All you
need is a text editor to edit the VMWare configuration settings.
* A .vmsd file stores information about VMWare snapshots.

Some links to get you started in the VMWare’s Virtual World

VMWare Player Download

.vmx creation utilities

EasyVMX (to create virtual machine settings that run on VMWare Player)
VMBuilder

Virtual Machines using VMWare Player – Blogs

Easy to follow Blog on creating virtual machines using .iso image

Create a windows XP virtual machine

Virtual machine repository (Linux distributions)

Linux source

VMWare’s Appliances Listing (There is more to the virtual world than OS)

Setting up a Virtual Private Networks is as easy as clicking through the buttons. Check out this product at LogMeIn

WebScarab is developed as an open source tool by The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) and can be downloaded from OWASP website

There are many useful firefox options and extensions that comes in handy during software development life cycle and in this article we will be listing few of useful plugins that we commonly use.

To find information related to the page that is getting displayed on the browser click Tools > Page info. This will give you permission settings of a page, security identity of the page, feed url and other page specific information like page content-type, encoding, meta tags used, cookie permission settings etc.

Web Developer extension
Added as a toolbar in firefox, this extension gives CSS related information, page information, outlines page elements, tab index, gives topographic information and many such details.

Colorzilla
Finds elements on the page corresponding to a given color, find out CSS rules and helps in checking the DOM element colors.

CSS Viewer
Helps give comprehensive list of CSS values for any chosen element.

Link Checker
If you are building applications which will involve heavy cross linking between pages this tool will gracefully point out the broken links in the pages helping the developers in swiftly modifying the links.

MeasureIT
It comes handy for the designers especially when they want to find out the width/height of an image or the size of the layout as it draws a ruler to get the pixel dimensions.

LiveHTTPHeaders
Tool to find the http header information including the cookie information that is transmitted when a request for a page is made.

User Agent Switcher
As a developer have you ever come across a situation where you wanted to identify your web pages with different user agents IE6, IE7, Firefox to the web server. Then this is the tool that you are looking for. It also supports Flock, Seamonkey, Mac OS and Linux user agents.

IE TabFor cross browser compatibility especially with the varied CSS rules in different IE versions, it often becomes hectic to test the functionality across different browsers. This tool helps run IE as a tab inside firefox.

YSlow
This is a plugin from yahoo and it aids in finding why a page loads slowly.

Firebug
This is the single most commonly used plugin by the development community. It helps developers in debugging, tracing attributes and values in html, css, javascript in addition to help traversing ajax requests.

Subversion (Tigris) Download
http://subversion.tigris.org/getting.html

Open Source Version Control Book
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/

Git Distributed Open Source Version Control Download
http://git-scm.com/download

Git Man Page
http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html

CVS Download
http://www.nongnu.org/cvs/

CVS Help
http://ximbiot.com/cvs/manual/