On Unix and Linux systems, we can use the "tail -f" command to view and monitor the information in the log files generated by the system or software. This is a very useful feature for programmers or system administrators. It's a pity that Windows doesn't have this feature built in. If you need to implement similar functions, you can use a third-party program, Tail4win.

WebLog Expert is a fast and comprehensive website access log analysis tool developed by Alentum Software from Israel. It can help webmaster uncover all kinds of important statistical information about the website usage, including visitor activities, access statistics, files visited, paths through the site, operating system and web browser versions of the visitor, reference pages information, search engines, error records, and more.

The operation and maintenance of websites or web services can't do without checking and analyzing the server logs. For this, many webmasters or administrators may have the very powerful and professional log analyzing tool from Microsoft - logparser (AKA: Log Parser, Microsoft Logparser) in mind. But Microsoft Logparser's command line interface can be a daunting challenge for many non-professional managers. Thereupon, some enhanced GUI tools for Microsoft Logparser such like Visual Log Parser GUI, Log Parser Lizard appeared.

CSV (short for Comma Separated Values) is a plain text file format that uses comma, Tab or other delimiters to separate the file content. It's very common to use a .csv file to store the tabular data. For example, a lot of small programs use the CSV file to keep their configuration and data. In general, the most convenient way to view and edit a CSV file is really to use Microsoft Excel. However, it has a disadvantage - the edited and saved CSV file format is not UTF-8 by default. And, most of other third-party CSV editors do not support UTF-8 format well either.