ProductivityTools

Get computer related questions answered

• http://experts-exchange.com/ (excellent! This is a pay site.)
• http://java.sun.com The Java forums here are great for searching, but if you ask a question it's hit or miss as to whether someone will answer it.
• http://jguru.com/ I don't know how good this site is because I've only asked one question there. You get great answers if you search there, but I asked one question there and it wasn't answered at all.

Online reference:

• http://safari.oreilly.com/ O'Reilly has all their books online. You pay for a certain bookshelf size and then can put any book on it that you want. You can change the books are your shelf, but you can't move a book off your shelf until it has been there for a month. I find this service invaluable. It eliminates the lag time between wanting to know about a subject and receiving the book. Also, I hate paper reference books. Having them online makes them searchable and O'Reilly has the ability to narrow a search to a specific book.

Get misc questions answered

• http://uclue.com (excellent! This requires a fee per question.)

Development environment

• Eclipse Editor?
• Visual SlickEdit (for quick text editing)
• Open Office
• Thunderbird
• Multiple monitors! I have three! Life is good!
• I've switched to Opera (from Firefox/Mozilla). The speed is very cool and it keeps state between closing the browser much better than Firefox.