If you’ve been following my series on Linux text editors you have read about a number of different variations on this theme. Some editors have been very GUI friendly, some have been just shy of a text-based editor, and some of them fall somewhere in between. Many people seem to prefer the in between editors [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source

In my last article I introduced you to Gedit (see “Gedit: No more text-based editor for you!“) and, as promised, this time around we will examine the KDE equivalent…Kate. Kate is an interesting beast in that it is comprised of two parts: KatePart (which is the underlying editor that is also used in other KDE [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Software

Intype is a text, code and xml editor for the Windows operating system that resembles advanced editors like Notepad++ in many aspects. It features the same extensibility and customizability as the popular Notepad replacement including scripting support and native plugin support. There is not a noticeable difference performance wise considering the program startup time and [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

It’s getting pretty hard to get excited about online image and photo editors seeing as they’re a dime a dozen. However just today I discovered one which I particularly liked and thought I would share with you: Pixlr – The online image editor Pixlr had been developed by a Swedish guy who launched the service [...]

Categories: Online Services

The newest version of Windows Live Writer has been released as a technical preview, primarily to showcase changes to the SDK. That isn’t to say this build is simply internal changes, you’ll find a number of new features and even some UI modifications. In fact I think once you have a bit of a poke [...]

Categories: Software, Tools

Open Office 3.0 beta has been released by the Open Office development team and is ready to be tested by the large community. The biggest change in my opinion is the support for Microsoft Office 2007 files, you know those docx, xlsx and pptx type of files that could not be opened not long ago [...]

Categories: Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Tools, Windows

If you are a fan of dark-room type apps and editors which provide much more comfort in comparison with the regular ones in terms of eye strain as well as more intuitive controls, you don’t wanna pass this one. Since the first port of the original Mac OS’s darkroom type editor was created, several other progs and online services with similar features have appeared.

Categories: Online Services

I sometimes quote websites and do a normal copy paste job to copy the website content to the editor of my blog or into a word processor. Unfortunately this copy job always pastes the original formatting of the original source to the editor as well which means that the text may have a different size, font type or color. It is quite a hassle to remove the formatting of the copied contents to make it look like the rest of your content.

Categories: Tools