Notepad++ is a free, open source application for writing text. A powerful editor full of options, Notepad++ is ideal for programming as well as normal text.

Notepad++ works with tabs, so it's very easy to work with multiple files open at the same time. Comparing texts is therefore very easy, and every line is numbered. Font size in Notepad++ can be increased simply by holding CTRL and the mouse wheel used to zoom in. Pressing F12 makes the current tab float above everything else in Windows.

For coding, Notepad++ recognizes many programming languages, and will automatically make something like HTML much easier to view by color coding the text. It also has an excellent find and replace tool. As a replacement for Window's Notepad, NotePad++ is incredible, because it has so many more features and abilities, while still being incredibly lightweight and stable.

NotePad++ is a functional application, but it won't win any prizes for looks, and many of the functions are only useful to programmers. However, anyone who writes text will find Notepad++ a useful tool, and much better than Windows Notepad.

NotePad++ has more features than you're ever likely to use, but is one of the best and most complete text editors available.

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Using doPDF is piece of cake. All you need to do is open a document in Microsoft Word, WordPad, Notepad or any other text editing software, choose the Print command and set doPDF as your default printer.

doPDF will ask you where to save the PDF file and when finished, the PDF file will be automatically opened in your default PDF viewer. The whole process takes less than a minute and you'll be amazed at how accurate the PDF version of your document is.

Another way to use doPDF is from the program’s own interface. Select the file you want to convert to PDF and hit the Create button to make it happen. On the downside, this option doesn’t let you configure conversion options such as page size, orientation and resolution.

doPDF is one of the easiest and fastest ways to convert your documents to PDF for free.

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ClocX supports many features like anti-aliasing, transparency and mouse-over transparency, over 400 included customizable skins, interface in 34 languages, click through, customizable priority, auto-load, alarms, calendar and many more.

ClocX is completely free and clean software. No adware, spyware or toolbars are included. ClocX allows users to customize its look completely by selecting one of many styles and various options. Advanced users can even create their own styles or edit any of current styles just using a graphic editor and Notepad.

Users who like to customize look of their desktop will love ClocX. It allows them to choose from many of styles and it adds extra functionality like creating alarms.

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Overview

If you take a lot of screenshots for creating tutorials, Snagit 11 is better than ever. Snagit 11 still has smart window detection so you can automatically select to capture a window or part of the window so you don't have to spend time cropping the image.

New features

For a long time, Snagit was only used to capture and annotate still images but that changes with Snagit 11. The biggest feature update for this version is the ability to capture video. You can now create screencasts using Snagit and upload them directly to YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, an FTP server, or Screencast.com.

While Snagit can capture video and voice for screencasts, don't expect the full range of editing features that you find in TechSmith's dedicated screencast application, Camtasia Studio. Snagit 11 aims to make sharing short video tutorials easy. If you want more professional results for your screencasts, give Camtasia Studio a try.

Another big feature upgrade that you'll find in Snagit 11 is the ability to download more stamps and other annotation tools. If the current set of annotation tools aren't to your fancy, just hit the "get more" link inside the app to be taken to TechSmith's website. You can also download plugins for sharing on sites like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and many more.

Snagit 11 also features improved text capture. If you take a screenshot of some text, Snagit automatically detects it and throws it into the Snagit Editor. From there, you can easily export it to whatever text editing program you'd like such as Microsoft Word, Notepad, and Evernote.

Overall, Snagit 11 is a great update for an already amazing program but those running Snagit 10 may not need the new features introduced in this version.

If you don't want or need better text capture, easy social sharing, or video capture, Snagit 10 will work just fine.

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ZetaWord lets you do everything you can do with Notepad for Windows, but has some added features, such as word counting and line sorting. It is completely free to use.

ZetaWord is meant for all Windows users who want to edit and view text-based documents.

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When you install AkelPad, it offers three possibilities - you can install it as a completely new program, add it to Windows shell or to completely replace Windows Notepad. AkelPad then does everything that Notepad can but also includes features such as Multiwindows, Recent Archives, Shortcuts and Re-open closed document functions. You can also do simple things like change the color and size of the font and visualize the documents in various formats with AkelPad.

The coolest feature in AkelPad though is the ability to add plugins. These include syntax highlighting, auto-completion, script execution, keyboard macros and much more. Autocomplete is particularly useful as it saves a lot of time typing documents by predicting what you write beforehand. The latest version has added more power to AxelPad allowing you to edit files bigger than 64K and it allows you to preview files before you open them

AxelPad is a great substitute for notepad although you can get most of these features in an average word processor.

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Notepad++ is a free, open source application for writing text and Notepad++ Plugin Manager expands its capabilities with a useful plugin manager.

Notepad++ Plugin Manager is a plugin that allows you to install, update and remove plugins from Notepad++. A centrally hosted XML file contains the list of plugins which Notepad++ Plugin Manager downloads and processes against the list of installed plugins.

To install Notepad++ Plugin Manager, simply download the .zip file and place the PluginManager.dll file in the Notepad++ plugins directory, and the gpup.exe in the updater directory under your Notepad++ program directory. (e.g. "C:\Program Files\Notepad++\updater"). Alternatively, just add the PluginManager.dll to the plugins directory, then do a reinstall of Plugin Manager from the plugin itself.

Notepad++ Plugin Manager allows you to install, update and remove all existing plugins, notify you when an installed plugin has an update available, and allows you to update directly. There are many other useful features such as the ability to calculate dependencies between plugins i.e. other plugins will be installed automatically if the user installs plugins that can be used with it. Notepad++ also ensures that only plugins that are compatible with Notepad++ are shown.

Note that Vista and Windows 7 users can only install and update Notepad++ Plugin Manager if they run Notepad++ as an administrator. You must then update plugin manager and it should work properly under a normal user.

Notepad++ Plugin Manager is an indispensable tool to manage plugins in Notepad++.

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It almost sounds like science fiction, but the truth is that Dragon NaturallySpeaking totally surpassed our expectations. It seems that text-to-speech technology has improved a lot over the last few years, and Dragon NaturallySpeaking has clearly taken advantage of it.

The main drawback to Dragon NaturallySpeaking, like with any other voice recognition program, is that it requires some long, boring training – based mainly on reading texts to the computer. Also, the program isn't 100% accurate – something that we expected anyway – but its percentage of right words in dictation still remains certainly impressive.

After training Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the program is quite intuitive and easy to use. The interface is reduced to a small bar from which you can access all the main tools and functions: dictation, reading text aloud, improving accuracy, managing commands and vocabulary... and the best thing about Dragon NaturallySpeaking is that you don’t need to speak to the computer as if you were a robot. Just talk naturally, and it’ll pick it up.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking is seamlessly embedded in Windows, which means that as long as you have it running, you can start dictating in any application, from Notepad to Firefox. And of course, the functionality in Dragon NaturallySpeaking is not limited to dictation: you can also control the computer with your voice: open and close apps, browse the web, view files, and more.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking is, in other words, like one of those amazing voice-controlled computers you see in movies, only that this time it’s on your own PC!

Dragon NaturallySpeaking is an amazing voice recognition tool that lets you control the computer with your voice and dictate texts in any application.

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It almost sounds like science fiction, but Dragon NaturallySpeaking totally exceeded our expectations. It seems that voice recognition technology has improved a lot over the last few years, and Dragon NaturallySpeaking has clearly taken advantage of it.

The main drawback to Dragon NaturallySpeaking, like with any other voice recognition program, is that it requires some long, boring training – based mainly on reading texts to the computer. Also, the program isn't 100% accurate – something we expected anyway – but its percentage of right words in dictation still remains impressive.

After training Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the program is intuitive and easy to use. The interface is reduced to a small bar from which you can access all the main tools and functions: dictation, reading text aloud, improving accuracy, managing commands and vocabulary. The best thing about Dragon NaturallySpeaking is that you don’t need to speak to the computer as if you were a robot. Just talk naturally, and it’ll pick it up.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking is seamlessly embedded in Windows, which means that as long as you have it running, you can start dictating in any application, from Notepad to Firefox. And of course, functionality in Dragon NaturallySpeaking is not limited to dictation: you can also control the computer with your voice - open and close apps, browse the web, view files, and more.

Dragon NaturallySpeaking is, in other words, like one of those amazing voice-controlled computers you see in movies, only that this time it’s on your own PC!

Dragon NaturallySpeaking is an amazing voice recognition tool that lets you control the computer with your voice and dictate texts in any application.

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Its fancy aero transparent background. Includes both codepad and notepad. the notepad files are codified with its extension .intf. In the codepad preconfigured code extensions like .html .php .css and more. the only one with iGerli great quality.

Software editors because of the codepad and upcoming new features and to normal users because of the notepad and upcoming new features.

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Purchasing an iPhone is a big financial decision for some. Make sure you like what's inside the tin by trying it out on your Windows PC first with iPhone Simulator.

This small program is written in Flash and lets you interact with a virtual iPhone on your desktop. In some ways, it is quite similar to the popular iPad emulator, iPadian. You can play around with the interface, as well as try out default applications that come standard in the iPhone.

With great quality graphics, this app lets you test some of the iPhone's popular feature. With iPhone Simulator, it's possible to access the clock, calculator, notepad and iOS system preferences. The wallpaper can also be modified. While iPhone Simulator looks like it's using iOS, it's important to note that this is a flash application and cannot adequately simulate the entire experience of an iOS device.

Unfortunately, some key applications on the phone are not activated. This includes the popular Safari browser. iPhone Simulator is also modeled after the third generation iPhone so anything new that came out in iPhone 4 can't be tested here.

iPhone Simulator is a handy utility if you want to get an idea of what it's like to own an iPhone. Unfortunately, the features you can test remain limited.

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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.

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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.

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 DzSoft 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 DzSoft PHP Editor 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 DzSoft PHP Editor really delivers. DzSoft PHP Editor's 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 on DzSoft PHP Editor 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.

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What EditPlus offers:

Syntax highlighting for HTML, PHP, Java, C/C++, CSS, ASP, Perl, JavaScript, VBScript, Python and Ruby on Rails. Also, it can be extended for other programming languages based on custom syntax files.

Seamless Web browser for previewing HTML pages, and FTP commands for uploading local files to FTP server.

Other features include Hex Viewer, HTML toolbar, user tools, line number, ruler, URL highlighting, auto completion, cliptext, column selection, powerful search and replace, multiple undo/redo, spell checker, customizable keyboard shortcuts, and more.

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It supports double-sided printing to save paper. The `Open` file dialog also contains a list of most recently open files. It supports text files greater than 64kb and you can open multiple windows without launching another session of the program.

The menu and open/save dialog boxes were improved to look like Office 97 and Windows 95/98 programs respectively. An on-line up-todate help system is available.

A HTML Tags toolbar for commonly used HTML tags. Innovative Window Buttons to let you switch between child windows likethe Windows Taskbar. Requires MS Internet Explorer and Internet Connection.

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It includes more than 64 different types of animationto liven up your Windows Notepad as you use it. There are 4 different characters that would appear randomly as you launch the program.

They are Genie,Merlin, Peddy and Robby. Synthesized Voice is also produced when a menu/command is executed. It comes with Office 97 like menus with graphics.

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