Notepad++ has been my Notepad replacement for the last years and I have never looked back since I installed it on my first computer. It combines the speed and low resource usage of Notepad with an advanced functionality that includes syntax highlighting, plugins and multi-views. Today the first beta version of Notepad++ 5.0 was released [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

A colleague of mine build a static html website a few years ago. He slowly but steadily created hundreds of html pages which was great for him because he could simply use one already finished file as a template for a new one. It did however pose a problem as well. Updating information across all files was very time consuming. Think of extending the copyright notice each year, adding advertisement to the websites or changing the navigation.

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Tools, Windows

Text Stat is a small program for Windows that analyzes text files and html documents displaying a wide variety of statistics about it in the end. It displays figures about the amount of paragraphs, words, letters, sentences, printable characters, spaces, carriage returns, number of words per sentence, syllables per word and a word list with [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Tools, Windows

While browsing the GoogleDocs blog I found an interesting update about two updates already in this year. The less significant, although probably better update if you want to organize yourself is the ability to add sub-folders. For me this was a much awaited feature since no matter how many tags and other organizational stuff I can add, a good folder structure is always a must.

Categories: Google, Online Services

Most solutions that encrypt files require the installation of encryption software which has to be started again if you want to decrypt the encrypted files. A quick and easy way to encrypt text files would be to use the free Steganos Locknote program which encrypts text files using the 256 AES algorithm.

Categories: Security, Tools