I have been using HeidiSQL for about a year or so now. I found it gave more control over table management and queries than the default MySQL workbench application. And its free to try

The company I work for is doing some pretty neat stuff in PDF to HTML5, so for the first time ever I have put a browser recommendation (chrome) on our site with a link to download it. I had a copy of Windows 1, so this wasn't done lightly. If enough people do the same perhaps MS may wake up. Maybe... I know the standard is still evolving, but at least browsers like chrome make an attempt to keep up with the demand with updates rather than issuing only bug fixes and making us wait sooo long before any of the new toys can be played with. To say it works in the IE10 preview is just a tease, because its not yet a proper browser. Its 2012, not 1995!

They are still very useful for running Java programs in windows. The .bat file lets you setup JVM options and directives as well as loading additional libraries and command line arguments. But then again, I am also a baby boomer.

You may find you need to combine two products to get the functionality you require - rendering and editing of PDF are chalk and cheese (and lots of work). If you are using Java, JPedal[^]has excellent rendering and extraction functionality, and if you combine this with iText you get editing abilities. Both have LGPL versions