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The thing that surprised me most about TFA was that the author was able to find some feature that wasn't in MS Word. It always seems to have every feature known to man, except the feature I want, when I use it.

Look for Fookes Software to be purchased any day now. . . .

The number of software fatalities in the area of Web development is caused by the rapidly changing standards. You need to learn how to do things directly and simply with whichever stable tools suit you.

I like Notepad++ but have also had a good experience with NoteTab (Free and Pro). The latter has a powerful macro language.

http://www.notetab.com/

I couldn't find active links for one or two of them myself, but here's an updated list -- in some cases these aren't the original sites, which have disappeared, so obviously it's worth being extra careful with antivirus software... apologies for the mess of links; the filter doesn't like short lines...

1by1 (play MP3s), AriskKey (recover passwords), AutoRuns (enumerate startup tasks), BurnCDCC (burn ISO images), CD (basic CD player), CDex (rip CDs + convert MP3/WAV), Copier [0X Copy Machine] (scan + print), CWShredder (clean spyware), DComBob (tame DCOM), DirLister (make quick file lists), Discover (force windows onscreen), DupeLocater (find and clean), FileRecovery [PC Inspector] (undelete), Folder2ISO (use with BurnCDCC), FoxitReader (read PDFs), GUIPDFTK (split/join PDFs), HijackThis (find spyware), HJSplit (split/join files), Identify_Boards (identify hardware), KatMouse installer (due to MS drivers), LCISOCreator (make ISO image from CD), Leaktest (test firewall), Microsoft keygen (people lose things), MultiRes (change res + force refresh), Multi Timer (stopwatch), NoteTab Light (text editor), NTest (test monitor setup), OnTop (pin windows to foreground), Process Explorer (task manager), ProduKey (recover passwords), Registry Commander (virus cleanup), ResHacker (examine executables), Rootkit Revealer (just in case) ShootTheMessenger (turn service off), Shred by AnalogX (simple filer shredder), TedNPad (unicode text editor), TFT (dead pixel locator), UNPnP (tame SSDP), UPX (compress executables), UnitConverter (what it says), utorrent (basic torrent app), VCdControlTool (mount ISO images),

There are reasonable alternatives though, such as
Notetab Light, which is totally free, no nagging, no ads, nothing.

1. FireFox, how else am I going to find and download the rest?
2. AVG AV, so that the next 8 actually are what I want.
3. Net Transport, to get the next 7 faster.
4. WinRAR, some of the rest require extraction, and whatever one might say about WinRAR, I prefer it.
   
5. WinAmp, so that I can listen to RadioStorm while I wait for the rest to download.
   
6. Trillian Pro, so I can tell everyone I am reinstalling.
7. NoteTab Pro, I paid for it for a reason after all.
8. OpenOffice.org, so that I don't have to wait an hour for it to download when I need to use it later.
9. Scorched Earth 3D, for a little fun.
10. Synergy , check it out if you wanna know.

Notepad SHOULD be replaced

Notetab Light

Every computer that I do any work on has the freeware version installed. It opens quickly. makes backups of items and does everything that I need.

In case you don't happen to have a loaded Acrobat (loaded acrobat? don't let him on the high wire!), or if you can't bear to wait for Adobe's disclaimers to load, here's a quick-n-dirty HTML mirror of the .pdf file. Ugly as sin: did it by pasting the text into Notetab and using "convert to HTML".

Yes, it's on Tripod, so beware the popups and banners. Whaddya expect from us skr1pt k1dd13z?

I'd definately use NoteTab. The Pro version is worth every penny. It has a tabbed interface, cusomizable toolbar with lots of gadgets, Clipbooks (can range from simple text macros to complete mini-applications with a powerful scripting language), Very fast "Replace All" command, URL and HTML-tag highlighting, Multiple-level undo/redo, Option to show nonprinting characters, Bookmarks, Wrap to column, Line-number ruler, Choice between real/fixed/smart tabs, autoreplace MS Notepad, spell checker, thesaurus, integration with html utilities, plus lots more.

I've been using it for 5 years have never had any problem with it. All minor version upgrades have always been free (everything after the .). It's lightning fast and just keeps getting better with every release.

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I personally use NoteTab for just about everythnig from note-keeping to times when I need to look at several text documents at the same time. For web development, I quite love Macromedia's HomeSite, but since I can't afford to own a legal copy (shh... don't tell), EVRSoft's 1st Page 2000 is far from being a step down. It's free, it's fast, and it has similar features and feel as HomeSite. (But after kludging around with Cold Fusion, I will probably not go back to HomeSite. ColdFusion Studio still gives me nightmares.) Then for C/C++ development, I'm still looking for the right editor. I'm picking up Emacs on Linux, but for Windoze dev work, I need something with a filename other than MSDEV.EXE. I've come to hate that file with everything in me. But if you're a lazy coder like me, C++ Builder (or Kylix 3 in Linux) is definitely the way to go.

NoteTab, Golden Pen and HTML-Kit...

I'll just stick to Notepad personally, as far as windows is concerned. Other than that, VI forever!

My absolute favorite programming IDE ever was Borland Turbo Pascal 7.0; therefore, I'm a sucker for any editor written in TurboVision, like RHIDE or SetEdit.

DOS Edit is still pretty decent in the console; on the GUI side, NoteTab is a notepad replacement on steroids (the "Light" version is free).

If you download Cygwin, you can compile almost any UNIX-y text editor you want, including my favorite--nano.

And if all else fails, Ask Google!

I agree with the use of text editors. When in Windows I use Notetab. It is a drop in replacement for MS Notepad. It includes many addins and macros for dealing with any type of text file, including decent HTML support. It is great for viewing and editing multiple files at once. The 'light' version is free.

A good free HTML editor is 1st page 2000.

Of course my two sub teen kids mainly use MS Frontpage when they are in Windows. When they have problems getting it to do a specific task, I use one of the two above to fix it.

NoteTab is one of the best programmer's text editors available, and the Lite version (which has 90% of the capability of the Pro version) is free. (The Pro version is only $20, and is worth much more than that.)

The name is similar but NoteTab is just massively useful (compared to Notepad, which is a joke).

See www.notetab.com

It's free, not written by Micro$oft, and it is probably the best editor for the Wincrap platform ever written. It has sidebars for HTML and a few other things, plus it can strip HTML tags automatically and completely (very few errors).

It is available at www.notetab.com

And, oh BTW, it runs rather well under WINE but it's a bit slow and the icons in the toolbar don't always show. But all other functions work.

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Ok, for those of you who don't know, the FrontPage Server extensions are basically intended to take the place of things which are commonly don't by server scripts.

Fortunately, due to an internal policy change at the company we are no longer using the FrontPage server extensions (something I've advocated throughout my tenure here) but when we started we have to use them. Their operation is of course the typical Micros~1 "mystery wrapped in a riddle wrapped in an enigma" approach to software, but they seem to use <!-- --> style comments as markers in the Web pages that use them.(FrontPage is designed so that you can create Web pages even if you couldn't write a single line of HTML.)

I hate FrontPage, when my boss isn't looking I use emacs or Notetab on Windows boxes.

Another excellent free beer editor for Windows text (and HTML) is Notetab . Emacs for DOS is also available from DJGPP.

Alex Bischoff
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