I'll second PuTTY & Filezilla. I have used WinSCP in the past but I remember being a little flaky. As for IDE, Zend Studio looks pretty rad. I actually use an

I'll second PuTTY & Filezilla. I have used WinSCP in the past but I remember being a little flaky. As for IDE, Zend Studio looks pretty rad. I actually use an old copy of Dreamweaver 8 for the very sensible reason that I like the syntax highlighting colours (and I could never really quite bother to alter them in any other IDE). It just looks really nice and I feel happier coding in it! Before that I used Ediplus 2/3 which is nice lightweight editor, kinda similar to Notepad++.