Mysql Tools

I've been using some tools for mysql administration (either web or desktop applications), the more used are:

1. phpmyAdmin: default web administrator in many bundle installations, useful, basic; not ajax-y which sometimes makes me feel like that's a boring place to be.. kinda ugly too, Still backup function are easy to find and use.
   
2. turbodbadmin: nice web application with ajax all around, looks like a desktop applications and it is very efficient.
3. SQL Yog: desktop application, very easy to use when you try to copy a whole database from a server to another remotely.

Here you will find some other tools and overviews about them.

Web tools

Here some useful tools for web applications:

1. Ajax loading application: here is some nice feature for web developers that allow us to create some animated gifs which can be used when some ajax request is in process. Why is it important? Because we're showing the user that something is actually happening when she/he has requested something and there is a waiting time needed to show the expected results.
2. Tiled backgrounds designer: web designers can used this to generate some professional backgrounds with patterns that now is a trend. Apart from being useful, it's a nicely developed web 2.0 application since you can post your background, there is community sharing and voting and it's a usable and efficient application. It will definitely rank in my choice for web applications

My choice for best web applications

1. Photsynth: It needs an active x pluggin for Internet Explorer, but it's like using something from the future now. The way the navigation goes through the 3d environment is great and the way I order photos in a 2d model is superb.
   
2. Google Maps - Live Maps: the entire map can be seen as a gigapixel image, street view is truly useful and the directions tools that both sites offer are a great way to show how web 2.0 apps are afecting nowadays rutine.
   
3. Google Reader: the best way to keep you updated, it has a high performance and forget about having to check manually every feed either in your browser or surfing page by page. In 5 minutes I can overview more than 80 feeds. Apart from the mail web systems, I thinks this is the most useful web software available for professionals.
   
4. Yahoo: the ultimate usability portal, well studied components which give the user a lot of information in one page.
   
5. Flickr: great community where people can actually know the whole world with high quality photos taken from great photographers. It has great sense of usability (yahoo trademark), and you can spend a whole afternoon using it in conjunction with the apps described at point 2.
   
6. Microsoft's Hotmail: It's fast to manage, I can do a lot of things faster than If I were using gmail or yahoo mail, it's very intuitive with the "right click" options.
   
7. iGoogle: the extensions and the widgets offered are great, you can actually set your internet "dashboard" here.
   
8. Youtube: the ultimate web 2.0 site. Huge community, huge traffic, and very entertaining site.