Programming environments that claim to have it all are everywhere but most programmers complain that they fail to live up the hype.

SlickEdit is a cross-platform attempt to break this trend as a multi-language code editor that allows programmers to create, navigate, modify, build, and debug code faster and more accurately. There are several features unique to SlickEdit that will make of it interest to programmers.

Context Tagging is one of them which allows you to drill down from a symbol to its definition, or quickly find all references without searching - a huge time saver for most under pressure programmers. Another is Completion on Space. This option allows you to press the spacebar when List Members is displayed and will insert the appropriate code without you having to type it which is another huge time saver.

There are many other more standard features of SlickEdit too including syntax highlighting, code templates and creating custom typing shortcuts with aliases that will help you finish your coding quicker.

Whether it's a major or minor project, SlickEdit packs in a huge number of time saving features combined with quick response times to make it a cross-platform editor worth reckoning with.

Download SlickEdit 2008 in Softonic

If you don’t know much about web design or programming, creating your own web page might seem like a daunting task. You should probably start off with a good WYSIWYG editor, simple enough that you don’t need to code anything yet packing all the tools to create good web pages. Web Page Maker is a program that will allow anybody to create a good looking website in seconds.

We immediately felt at ease with the WYSIWYG features of the program. You can drag and drop pictures on your page and reshuffle them around the way you want. It’s also easy to insert text boxes to add information and titles to your web page. If you’re feeling lazy, you can also use one of the available templates and tweak it to your liking. The menu bar has a button to instantly clone pages and a preview button to see how your web page looks in your favourite browser. Ready-to-use Java Script and HTML code can also be inserted into your web page in seconds.

Web Page Maker is a WYSIWYG web editor with a quick hands-on approach and accessible features. Although it only offers three types of shapes and the navigation bar feels pretty basic, the program is a great solution for beginners who want to create their own HTML pages without getting lost in technical jargon and coding.

Download Web Page Maker 3.03 in Softonic

One of the most challenging aspects of having a large music collection is being able to manage tag labelling.

If your tags are not labelled properly, it's almost impossible to organise them well. TagScanner is a powerful TAG editor with batch functions and special features that allows you to export playlists to HTML or Excel worksheets. What's most useful about this program though is the fact that it can edit huge numbers of tags at the same time and not just that, but it can import tag information from Amazon or Freedb. The information that's retrieved can sometimes be hit or miss in accuracy but it saves a hell of a lot of time. You can generate tag information from file and folder names and it can edit a wide range of music formats including MP3, OGG, Musepack, Monkey's Audio, FLAC, AAC, OptimFROG, SPEEX, WavePack, TrueAudio, WMA, MP4 files. In terms of tagging, it's also pretty impressive supporting ID3 1.0/1.1/2.2/2.3/2.4 tags, APE v1 and v2 tags, Vorbis Comments, WMA tags and MP4(iTunes) metadata. The player is basic but it does allow you to create playlists and export them for reference which is useful for showing others your collection.

A very powerful tag editor that will surely save you time although you may find that automatically retrieved tags are not 100% accurate.

Download TagScanner 5.0.525 in Softonic

If you're a big fan of Wordpad but wish it was a little more advanced, then without doubt, TextPipe is for you.

With TextPipe you can specify all your text processing needs through one application rather than having to remember and manage several text editors, command line tools, custom scripts and Word and Excel macros. In a nutshell, TextPipe basically makes it fast and easy to convert, transform and re-form data in text files including HTML and XML documents. Probably the most outstanding feature of TextPipe is that it is very fast and can handle files of unlimited size. TextPipe is also remarkably efficient at handling multiple tasks simultaneously. The advantage of this is that you only need to learn how to use one tool rather than several to do multiple tasks. For those that have invested a lot of money or are planning to invest a lot of money in an editor, it's also a much cheaper solution. If the developers claims are right, it certainly packs an impressive punch when it comes to making corrections. They report that in a recent speed trial, TextPipe made the same number of changes to a document in seconds that took MS Word hours.

A very powerful all in one text editor, cleansing and conversion tool although it will only come into it's own if you're dealing with very large documents and tasks.

Download TextPipe Pro 8.1.10 in Softonic

If you need to create or edit text files and want something with more options than the default Notepad/WordPad programs that come with Windows but don't need the power and complexity of a full-fledged word processor, check out NotePro. Although it has many powerful features typically found in a word-processor, it's very simple to use.

NotePro has a clean, attractive interface that puts nearly all the options you'll need right on the well-designed button bar. NotePro handles standard text files, and also creates and saves Rich Text Format, Word, Windows Write, and HTML files used by Microsoft Word and other word-processors. You can have multiple documents open at one time.

Download NotePro 3.71 in Softonic

It's not easy to get excited about the look of a PHP environment and editor but PHP Designer puts in more effort than most to create a stylish and highly usable one.

PHP Designer is a complete PHP IDE (Integrated Development Environment) and PHP editor that caters for just about all your PHP coding needs but it also applies itself to HTML, CSS and JavaScript development. The main aim of PHP Designer is to boost your productivity and make your life easier. However, because of this, it's aimed more at beginners than professional editors, although there's enough there to keep the latter interested too.

Probably the main bonus of PHP Designer is the intelligent syntax highlighting which spots errors as you type, meaning less head scratching at the end of a long coding session. This applies not just to PHP but to other languages as well. Of course, PHP Designer also comes with a debugger which can test scripts for errors and suggests possible solutions although as with all debuggers, the success rate can be hit and miss according to most users.

If you're looking for a good looking PHP editor that supports plenty of other languages too, then PHP Designer may well make your life a lot easier.

Download PHP Designer 2008 6.1 in Softonic

Creating professional RSS feeds is one way to extend the coverage of your website and make it look more professional to your readers.

Feed Editor allows you to create new RSS feeds that look professional but also put you in total control of them at all times. Feed Editor generates feeds using Version 2.0 of the RSS standard and it's based on a WYSIWYG editor so there's no need to have any XML knowledge whatsoever.

Feed Editor can also generate RSS feeds from CSV and HTML files, supports uploading via FTP and works with graphics using templates. With Feed Editor, creating RSS feeds will become a pleasure. In addition, Feed Editor also supports podcasts with an unlimited number of feeds and importing from CSV and HTML feeds.

Feed Editor is a solid RSS feed editor that will give you as much control as you need over your RSS feeds and give your website a much more professional feel.

Download Feed Editor 5.2 in Softonic

WinMerge is an Open Source visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.

Features:

• Visual differencing and merging of text files
• Flexible editor with syntax highlighting
• Handles DOS, UNIX and MAC text file formats
• Unicode support
• Difference pane shows current difference in two vertical panes
• Location pane shows map of files compared
• Highlights differences inside lines
• File filters in directory diff
• Moved lines detection in file compare
• Shell integration
• Rudimentary Visual SourceSafe and Rational ClearCase integration
• Archive file support using 7-zip
• Plugins
• Localizable interface via resource DLL
• HTML-based manual

Download WinMerge 2.8.6 in Softonic

Wouldn't it be nice if you could edit PDF documents in the same way that you edit Word documents?

Well you can with Abdio PDF Editor (formerly known as Microadobe PDF Editor) which is a professional PDF editing application. Abdio PDF Editor aims to make creating and editing PDF files just like using Mircosoft Office Word and for the most part, it succeeds. Abdio PDF Editor also allows you to work with a wide range of file formats such as native Word and HTML files.

Creating a new PDF is easy in Abdio PDF Editor. Simply open a new project, select the page size you require and the background color. Next you have the option to import a document into Abdio PDF Editor. You can import by selecting "File" and then "Import" Word (DOC), RTF, TXT, HTML and XML formats. From here, you can edit text much as you would in Word. You can insert images and tables, hyperlinks and edit the header and footer just as you would with any Word document. To secure your document at the end, you can define a password so that it can only be opened by authorised users in Abdio PDF Editor.

If you're not a big fan of editing in Adobe's PDF own editor or are a grand master at using Word, Abdio PDF Editor is a considerably easier way of editing PDFs.

Download Abdio PDF Editor 8.6 Build 80705 in Softonic

Brilliant is the database software family that allows you to create a database without having any special knowledge or skills. You can harness the power of the application to perform all manner of tasks, including:

• Forms
• Report styles
• Queries
• Mathematical formulas
• Scripts
• User interface
• Custom export/import
• Design your database software

Visual Form Editor

A characteristic feature of Brilliant Database, which allows creating new databases quickly and easily. You choose the required element from the element set and put it into the form. You can modify such properties as color, font, location, style or type, according to your requirements.

Report Style Editor

Allows creating any forms of visual representation when making a printout, such as Catalogs, Reports, Envelopes, Labels, Business Cards and others.

Toolbar Editor

This intuitive feature allows you to hasten and simplify the work with your database. By using this tool, you can create new buttons, menus and "hot keys", as well as new options to the program.

Formula Editor

A handy tool created to help you automatate data processing. Using standard mathematical constructions, you can set the formula according to which the necessary data will be calculated.

Visual Script Designer

Allows automating routine operations without having to study special programming languages. All of the script constructions are created by means of a series of simple-to-follow wizards.

Custom Import Editor (Parser)

Allows importing text data from any other programs and files directly into the database using the drag-and-drop technology. With its help you can add information from web sites, text documents or mailing programs into the database.

Custom Export Editor

Can be used to create templates to export data in the plain text format or HTML format, send e-mail directly from the database, integrate your database with MS Word, etc. You just add the field names to the template, and during export they will be replaced with record values from the database.

Download Brilliant Database Professional 7.5 in Softonic

NoteTab Pro is a leading-edge text editor and HTML coding tool, and an ideal Notepad replacement. Winner of top shareware industry awards since 1998, this elegant application does it all: you can handle multiple large files with a simple tabbed interface, use a spell-checker and thesaurus, format text, use multiple undo, and bookmark documents. You can build templates, use powerful system-wide searches, and do global multi-line replacements.

Key features:

• Open and edit many documents at once
• Multi-level undo/redo
• Very fast text processing
• Highlights URLs and HTML tags
• Supports document templates
• Multilingual spell checker and thesaurus
• Supports regular expression search/replace
• Programmable - add your own features

Download NoteTab Pro 5.7 in Softonic

Text editor that highlights more than 50 filetypes! (C/C++, HTML, ASP, PHP, Perl, Pascal..) Built-in spell checker, HEX editor, UNICODE, code templates, auto correction, print preview, bookmarks, export the text with highlighting to RTF, HTML and LaTeX format, support many character sets, scripting engine, evaluate math expressions, regular expressions, support file format for Windows, Unix, MacOS.

Download GridinSoft Notepad 3.3.2.6 in Softonic

NoteTab Light is the ultimate free Notepad replacement and a capable HTML editor. A slimmer version of the award-winning NoteTab Pro, this slick application makes text editing a breeze. Move quickly around a stack of large files with a simple tabbed interface. Format your text to your heart's content. Write with the font of your choice, fixed-width or proportional.

Key features:

• Open and edit many documents at once
• Capable of editing huge text files
• Text drag-and-drop editing
• AutoCorrect/Auto-replace mode
• Clip tool for quick and easy text insertion
• Capture text sent to Clipboard

Download NoteTab Light 5.7 in Softonic

With an ever growing collection of digital photos, many of us are in constant search of an appropriate tool to manage them all.

Photo Manager 2008 Professional can be the answer to this search. This full featured application works as a photo manager, viewer and editor, plus including some extra tools to make the most of your photo collection: HTML album maker, tag editor and more.

The program features a classic interface divided into several areas that contain your system's folder structure, image preview and a task list. You can view your photos in thumbnail lists or in a gorgeous full-screen slideshow, apply a series of basic edition effects, create an HTML photo album to share your pictures online, see and edit EXIF data (which includes camera model, exposure, date and time, etc) for each image, print several photos on a single sheet of paper and find duplicate images, among other possibilities.

Despite the array of tools included, Photo Manager 2008 Professional falls a bit short of expectations. Its editing capabilities are a bit limited – at least when compared to other similar programs – and it also lacks functionalities that you can often find in other photo editors.

Photo Manager 2008 Professional is a photo editor and viewer with which you can organize, view and edit your pictures, though it lacks many advanced tools you can find in other similar apps.

Download Photo Manager 2008 Professional 1.0 Release 2 in Softonic

Writing PHP code and testing it on-the-fly can be a real hassle but this offering from DzSoft promises to ease the pain of coding by acting as a virtual server that can process code and display the results.

DzSoft PHP Editor is primarily a code editor, and includes the majority of features that you’d expect from this type of software. However, while most rival code editors tend to generalize, offering syntax highlighting for a multitude of languages PHP Editor is specifically tuned to the needs of web programmers who are working with the Hypertext Preprocessor language. Evidence of this can be found in the inclusion of common code and functions libraries and the ability to run and preview your work.

At first glance the program doesn’t appear to have a particularly intuitive interface. The design wouldn’t be out of place in Windows 95 and the main editor window is a typical reproduction of Notepad with each line numbered for easy reference. What appears to be a navigation bar on the left offers some hope of functionality, and once you get stuck in to coding it really delivers. The explorer bar tracks everything and records the location of each include, function, variable, and class you use. Should you wish to specifically save a reference point you can add up to nine bookmarks, although you can’t assign names to them - an addition that would have helped clarify what function each snippet serves.

To use the run and preview feature you must install PHP on your PC, a simple operation when compared to setting up your computer as a server that can process PHP. With a syntax check also included, this tool comes highly recommended to anyone that will be writing significant bodies of PHP. DzSoft PHP Editor may be a little rough around the edges, but with its outstanding functionality, that can be forgiven.

Download DzSoft PHP Editor 4.2.0.0 in Softonic

If you find that your programming development tool doesn't exactly make life easy for you, you may be pleasantly surprised by RJ TextEd. It's basically a web development tool and a Unicode text editor which aims to make HTML coding simpler, faster and more intuitive.

Some of the key features are syntax error highlighting, auto completion and a very handy CSS editor. One rather unusual feature is that RJ TextEd includes an FTP client that enables you to get your coding published super quick although it's not exactly an advanced client and if you need secure connections, you're probably best not to rely on it.

For those that are relatively new to coding, another handy feature is the HTML validation tool which allows you to format and repair your code using wizards. Finally, it also includes spell checking, e-mail support and advanced search options. The remarkable thing is that this is all entirely free although the downside is that it won't support all coding languages so if you frequently use different ones, you'll need something more flexible.

Download RJ TextEd 4.51 in Softonic

With an ever growing collection of digital photos, many computer users are in search of an appropriate tool to manage them.

Photo Manager 2008 can be the answer to this search. This complete application works as a photo manager, viewer and editor, plus including some extra tools to make the most of your photo collection.

The program features a classic interface divided into several areas that contain your system's folder structure, image preview and a task list. You can view your photos in thumbnail lists or full screen, apply a series of basic edition effects, create an HTML photo album to share your pictures online, see and edit EXIF data in each image, print several photos on a single sheet of paper and find duplicate images, among other possibilities.

Despite the array of tools included, Photo Manager 2008 generally falls short of expectations. Its editing capabilities are a bit limited – at least when compared to other similar programs – and it also lacks functionalities that you can easily find in other photo editors.

Photo Manager 2008 is a photo editor and viewer with which you can organize, view and edit your pictures, though it lacks advanced tools you find in other similar apps.

Download Photo Manager 2008 1.0 in Softonic

Besides letters and numbers, keyboards have dozens of signs that are used by many languages around the world but which are not always easy to insert. Many of them require strange key combinations that you obviously don't know by heart.

This is why PopChar Win is so useful: it enables you to insert special characters in your writings on the fly, so that you don't waste your time trying different combinations or looking them up on the Internet. I specially liked the way characters are inserted: simply select it with your mouse and it will be copied to whichever text editor or email client is open. Plus, the program's window can be launched with a hotkey and closes immediately after inserting the character.

On the downside, this version is just a demo that doesn't provide access to all characters. Also, I don't understand why the complete text font list is displayed only in a separate window and not under a menu, which would be much easier.

Download PopChar Win 3.4 in Softonic

OCR software need not be expensive and can be the quickest way to transfer huge amounts of text in an article or publication to editable text.

TopOCR is completely free and designed to be simple and user-friendly enough for use with a digital camera or smartphone. The aim is to make it easy to acquire documents and texts from business cards, newspapers, books and magazines without having to carry around a bulky notebook computer and scanner. OCR is surprisingly accurate and the developers claim it has up to a 99.8% accuracy rate with a 3 Megapixel camera. There are no page limits and no extra downloads or components needed. It can handle images with mixed text and graphics and it can even tolerate skew and uneven lighting. In terms of output formats, you have searchable PDF and HTML formats that are able to read 11 different languages. In addition, Smartphone owners will find it indispensable with full support for them including a useful (although not very accurate) Text-To-Speech software. This means that you can record thoughts, minutes and dictations and play them back later for TopOCR to print out.

This is a hugely comprehensive and generally accurate OCR package and best of all, it's entirely free.

Download TopOCR 3.0 in Softonic

WebPicker is designed to help you collect, manage, and distribute web information while you surf. Each time you find a web page, or a portion of a page, that you wish to keep for future reference, simply save it to the WebPicker library. With a single click, you save all of the images, text, tables, Java applets, videos, Flash files, and other page elements.

Useful benefits of WebPicker:

Easy Collecting

WebPicker is fully integrated with Internet Explorer, so you don't have to learn a new browser to capture and manage web pages. The built-in browser, however, is worth learning, as it lets you generate a note that you can attach to the page, perform web page edits, or discard the page

Easy Managing

The app's Internet Explorer-like interface allows you to keep track of all of the information that you've captured from the Internet. With simple drag-and-drop operations, you can cut, paste, and group information. Keeping, sharing, and reading Internet data is as easy as moving files in an Explorer tree.

Easy Distributing

Turn information and graphics into a CHM help file, and share your collection of information with anybody who has Windows installed. You can also export your saved web pages to folders or files, for display on handheld computers. It's simple to save information as an ebook, and share it as a self-running EXE file

Easy Editing

WebPicker's advanced HTML editor lets you work in a visual environment, or tinker directly with the HTML source code. As a result, you can modify and redesign the web information to suit your needs.

Download WebPicker 3.6 in Softonic