Microsoft Personal Folders Backup (PST)

The Personal Folders Backup download creates backup copies of your .PST files at regular intervals, in Outlook 2002 and later versions, making it easy to keep all of your Outlook folders safely backed up.

This tool is not new (october 2003) but it is republished to state that it also works on Outlook 2007.

Backing up your Microsoft Outlook information is quicker and easier with the Personal Folders Backup feature. Personal Folders Backup creates backup copies of your .PST files at regular intervals, in Outlook 2002 and later versions, making it easy to keep all of your Outlook folders safely backed up.

With Personal Folders Backup, you can choose which of your .PST files you wish to back up, and how often you wish to back them up.

Each .PST file contains all of your Outlook folders, including the Inbox, Calendar, and Contacts. You can have a single .PST file (usually called "Internet Folders" or "Personal Folders" in your Folder List), but you might also have an additional .PST file that you use for archiving ("Archiving Folders"). Personal Folders Backup lets you back up any or all of these .PST files.

Note: Personal Folders Backup only backs up .PST files. If you have a Microsoft Exchange Server mailbox, your server mailbox folders are likely backed up regularly by your server administrator. For additional details and assistance refer to Using the Microsoft Outlook Personal Folders Backup tool.

Download: Microsoft Personal Folders Backup (PST)

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Get Ready for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 Beta and Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta

The latest finalized versions of Visual Studio and .NET Framework have been around for quite some time now, almost half a year taking into consideration the November 2007 release to manufacturing dates. But while .NET Framework 3.5 was made available for download at the end of the past year, the "official" launch of Visual Studio 2008 was pushed back until February 2007, as the latest iteration of Microsoft's suite of development products built under the Visual Studio umbrella accompanied Windows Server 2008 to the market via the Heroes Happen. The Redmond company is now gearing up for the first step in the next stage of the two products' evolution, namely the Service Pack 1 milestones.

Both .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 have been cooking over at Microsoft, and the company is now preparing to release the first Beta builds. "We will be releasing the beta of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 and the .NET Framework SP1. Each of these releases contains a significant amount of new functionality and bug fixes for developers which will further enhance their experiences with our products. However, this bulletin is focused on new functionality specifically in .NET Framework SP1 and Visual Studio SP1 for Client development," explained Lai Hoong Fai, Senior Independent Software Vendors Technology Advisor, Microsoft Malaysia.

Lai Hoong Fai provided little additional details about VS2008 SP1 Beta, and focused on the testing release for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. However, the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta forum is already live, even though so far Microsoft has failed to deliver the Betas for either of the two service packs.

"The .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta delivers more controls, a streamlined setup, improved start-up performance, and powerful new graphics features for WPF development. This release includes numerous bug fixes and the following feature areas: new and improved graphics capabilities for both 2D and 3D, new controls and extensibility, performance improvements for startup and runtime, as well as streamlined setup and interop with HTML (DOM) as well as DirectX," Lai Hoong Fai added.

The Redmond company is also hammering away at .NET Framework 3.5 in order to deliver an evolved user experience through streamlining the setup process. In this context, the client applications and scenarios will benefit from a new .NET Framework 3.5 Client Profile which will be introduced as a subset of .NET Framework 3.5.

"The beta is intended as a mechanism to allow early testing and feedback. As a beta release, it is recommended that you only install the service pack on test machines (VPCs would be great for that purpose). Note that there are a few known incompatibilities with this service pack including: Expression Blend, the Silverlight 2 Beta 1 SDK, and the Microsoft Silverlight Tools Beta 1 for Visual Studio 2008. A new version of Expression Blend 2.5 March Preview has been released that is compatible with this service pack. These issues will be resolved for the final release, but it is important that you start testing your apps for compatibility and provide feedback to us," Lai Hoong Fai stated.

When the Betas for .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 and Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 are alive, I will provide you with an update. In the meantime, .NET Framework 3.5 can be downloaded from here; Visual Studio 2008 is available for download here.

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Best Programming Jokes

How can you tell when a programmer has had sex?
When he's washing the pepper spray out of his eyes.

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Two bytes meet.  The first byte asks, "Are you ill?" 
The second byte replies, "No, just feeling a bit off."

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Eight bytes walk into a bar.  The bartender asks, "Can I get you anything?"

"Yeah," reply the bytes.  "Make us a double."

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Q. How did the programmer die in the shower?
A. He read the shampoo bottle instructions: Lather. Rinse. Repeat.

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How many programers dose it take to change a light bulb?
None - It's a hardare problem

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Why do programmers always mix up Halloween and Christmas?
Because Oct 31 equals Dec 25.

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There are only 10 kinds of people in this world: those who know binary and those who don't.

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A programmer walks to the butcher shop and buys a kilo of meat.  An hour later he comes back upset that the butcher shortchanged him by 24 grams.

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"Knock, knock."
"Who's there?"
very long pause….
"Java."

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Programming is 10% science, 20% ingenuity, and 70% getting the ingenuity to work with the science.

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Programming is like sex:
One mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.

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A man is smoking a cigarette and blowing smoke rings into the air.  His girlfriend becomes irritated with the smoke and says, "Can't you see the warning on the cigarette pack?  Smoking is hazardous to your health!" 

To which the man replies, "I am a programmer.  We don't worry about warnings; we only worry about errors."

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There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damned lies, and benchmarks.

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A programmer is walking along a beach and finds a lamp.  He rubs the lamp, and a genie appears.  "I am the most powerful genie in the world.  I can grant you any wish, but only one wish." 

The programmer pulls out a map, points to it and says, "I'd want peace in the Middle East." 

The genie responds, "Gee, I don't know.  Those people have been fighting for millenia.  I can do just about anything, but this is likely beyond my limits." 

The programmer then says, "Well, I am a programmer, and my programs have lots of users.  Please make all my users satisfied with my software and let them ask for sensible changes."

At which point the genie responds, "Um, let me see that map again."

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All programmers are playwrights, and all computers are lousy actors.

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Have you heard about the new Cray super computer?  It's so fast, it executes an infinite loop in 6 seconds.

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The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

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"I just saw my life flash before my eyes and all I could see was a close tag…"

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The computer is mightier than the pen, the sword, and usually, the programmer.

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Debugging: Removing the needles from the haystack.

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Two strings walk into a bar and sit down. The bartender says, "So what'll it be?"

The first string says, "I think I'll have a beer quag fulk boorg jdk^CjfdLk jk3s d#f67howe%^U r89nvy~~owmc63^Dz x.xvcu"

"Please excuse my friend," the second string says, "He isn't null-terminated."

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From the Random Shack Data Processing Dictionary:

Endless Loop: n., see Loop, Endless.
Loop, Endless: n., see Endless Loop.

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The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware engineer with a software patch, and a user with an idea.  - The Wizardry Compiled by Rick Cook

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One hundred little bugs in the code
One hundred little bugs.
Fix a bug, link the fix in,
One hundred little bugs in the code.

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A computer science student is studying under a tree and another pulls up on a flashy new bike.  The first student asks, "Where'd you get that?"

The student on the bike replies, "While I was studying outside, a beautiful girl pulled up on her bike.  She took off all her clothes and said, 'You can have anything you want'."

The first student responds, "Good choice!  Her clothes probably wouldn't have fit you."

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CIA - Computer Industry Acronyms

CD-ROM: Consumer Device, Rendered Obsolete in Months
PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
ISDN: It Still Does Nothing
SCSI: System Can't See It
MIPS: Meaningless Indication of Processor Speed
DOS: Defunct Operating System
WINDOWS: Will Install Needless Data On Whole System
OS/2: Obsolete Soon, Too
PnP: Plug and Pray
APPLE: Arrogance Produces Profit-Losing Entity
IBM: I Blame Microsoft
MICROSOFT: Most Intelligent Customers Realize Our Software Only Fools Teenagers
COBOL: Completely Obsolete Business Oriented Language
LISP: Lots of Insipid and Stupid Parentheses
MACINTOSH: Most Applications Crash; If Not, The Operating System Hangs
AAAAA: American Association Against Acronym Abuse.
WYSIWYMGIYRRLAAGW: What You See Is What You Might Get If You're Really Really Lucky And All Goes Well.

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Funny Error Messages

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God as a Programmer

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Computer Stupidities

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Comedy Code is syntactically correct programming code written just for fun.  The code doesn't actually have to do anything if it's executed, but it should look like regular code.

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Why computers are like men:

1. In order to get their attention, you have to turn them on.
2. They have a lot of data, but are still clueless.
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they are the problem.
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have had a better model.

Why computers are like women:

1. No one but the Creator understands their internal logic.
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.
3. Even your smallest mistakes are stored in long-term memory for later retrieval.
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.

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Laws of Computer Programming

1. Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
2. Any given program costs more and takes longer.
3. If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
4. If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
5. Any program will expand to fill available memory.
6. The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output.
7. Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.
8. Any non-trivial program contains at least one bug.
9. Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.
10. Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

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• Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There's always one more bug.
• Shaw's Principle: Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
• Woltman's Law: Never program and drink beer at the same time.
• Gallois' Revelation: If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled, and no one dares to criticize it.

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A programmer finds himself in front of a committee that decides whether he should go to Heaven or Hell.  The committee tells the programmer he has a say in the matter and asks him if he wants to see either Heaven or Hell before stating his preference.

"Sure," the programmer replies.  "I have a pretty good idea what Heaven is like, so let's see Hell."  So an angel takes the programmer to a sunny beach, full of beautiful women in skimpy bikinis playing volleyball, listening to music and having a great time.  "Wow!" he exclaims, "Hell looks great!  I'll take Hell!"

Instantly the programmer finds himself in red-hot lava with demons tearing at his flesh.  "Where's the beach?  The music?  The women?" he screams frantically to the angel.

"That was the demo," the angel replies as she vanishes.

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Jesus and Satan have an argument as to who is the better programmer.  This goes on for a few hours until they come to an agreement to hold a contest with God as the judge.  They set themselves before their computers and begin.  They type furiously, lines of code streaming up the screen, for several hours straight.

Seconds before the end of the competition, a bolt of lightning strikes, taking out the electricity.  Moments later, the power is restored, and God announces that the contest is over.  He asks Satan to show his work.  Visibly upset, Satan cries and says, "I have nothing.  I lost it all when the power went out."

"Very well," says God, "let us see if Jesus has fared any better."

Jesus presses a key, and the screen comes to life in vivid display, the voices of an angelic choir pour forth from the speakers. 

Satan is astonished.  He stutters, "B-b-but how?!  I lost everything, yet Jesus’ program is intact!  How did he do it?"

God chuckles, "Everybody knows… Jesus saves."

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Redneck Computer Terms

LOG ON: Makin' a woodstove hot.
LOG OFF: Don't add no more wood.
MONITOR: Keepin' an eye on the wood stove.
DOWNLOAD: Gittin' the farwood off the truck.
MEGA HERTZ: When you're not keerfull gittin' the farwood.
FLOPPY DISC: Whutcha git from trying to tote too much farwood.
RAM: That thar thing whut splits the farwood.
HARD DRIVE: Gittin' home in the winter time.
WINDOWS: Whut to shut when it's cold outside.
SCREEN: Whut to shut when it's black fly season.
BYTE: Whut them dang flys do.
CHIP: Munchies fer the TV.
MICRO CHIP: Whut's in the bottom of the munchie bag.
MODEM: Whutcha do to the hay fields.
DOT MATRIX: Old Dan Matrix's wife.
LAP TOP: Whar the kitty sleeps.
KEYBOARD: Whar you hang the dang truck keys.
SOFTWARE: Them dang plastic forks and knifes.
MOUSE: Whut eats the grain in the barn.
MOUSE PAD: That's hippie talk fer the mouse hole.
MAINFRAME: Holds up the barn roof.
PORT: Fancy Flatlander wine.
ENTER: Northerner talk fer, "C'mon in, y'all."
CLICK: Whut you hear when you cock your gun.
DOUBLE CLICK: When the dang gun don't far when you pull the trigger.
REBOOT: Whut you have to do at bedtime when you forgot the kitty's still outside.

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Software Development Cycles

1. Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free.
2. Product is tested. 20 bugs are found.
3. Programmer fixes 10 of the bugs and explains to the testing department that the other 10 aren't really bugs.
4. Testing department finds that five of the fixes didn't work and discovers 15 new bugs.
5. Repeat three times steps 3 and 4.
6. Due to marketing pressure and an extremely premature product announcement based on overly-optimistic programming schedule, the product is released.
7. Users find 137 new bugs.
8. Original programmer, having cashed his royalty check, is nowhere to be found.
9. Newly-assembled programming team fixes almost all of the 137 bugs, but introduce 456 new ones.
10. Original programmer sends underpaid testing department a postcard from Fiji. Entire testing department quits.
11. Company is bought in a hostile takeover by competitor using profits from their latest release, which had 783 bugs.
12. New CEO is brought in by board of directors. He hires a programmer to redo program from scratch.
13. Programmer produces code he believes is bug-free…

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Top 10 phrases spoken by a Klingon Programmer

1. A TRUE Klingon Warrior does not comment his code!
2. By filing this bug report you have challenged the honor of my family.  Prepare to die!
3. You question the worthiness of my code?  I should kill you where you stand!
4. Our competitors are without honor!
5. Specifications are for the weak and timid!
6. This machine is GAGH!  I need dual Pentium processors if I am to do battle with this code!
7. Perhaps it IS a good day to die!  I say we ship it!
8. Our users will know fear and cower before our software!  Ship it!  Ship it and let them flee like the dogs they are!
9. My program has just dumped Stova Core!
10. Behold, the keyboard of Kalis!  The greatest Klingon code warrior that ever lived!

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The programmer compiled an array of reasons as to why he can't find a girlfriend with a good <HEAD> on her <BODY>, reason 0 being that he has limited cache.  So he searches his memory to recall connecting to the TCP/IP tunnel of his last girlfriend — sometimes even without a secure socket.  His last girlfriend always complained about his lack of comments. He fumed, "I hate commenting!"  Realizing it was a program requirement, he told her she had nice bits.  This resulted in a Syntax Error.  Now she demanded a massage, but this was rejected as "Feature Creep."  He smacked her back-end and shouted, "Who's your parent node?!"  He scanned for open ports.  He attempted to install a backdoor worm but her response was 403.  While his data uploaded into her input device, she considered terminating the process.  But instead she initiated a Do While loop where she recalled a previous boyfriend with a larger pointer.  To expedite the routine routine, she screamed, "Hack into my system! Hack deep into my system! You're 1337, baby!"  This caused his stack to overflow, and he shot his GUI on her interface.  (Source)

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What's the difference between drug dealers and computer programmers?

Drug Dealers	Computer Programmers
Refer to their clients as "users".	Refer to their clients as "users".
"The first one's free!"	"Download a free trial version…"
Have important South-East Asian connections (to help move the stuff).	Have important South-East Asian connections (to help debug the code).
Strange jargon: "Stick," "Rock," "Dime bag," "E".	Strange jargon: "SCSI," "RTFM," "Java," "ISDN".
Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market.	Realize that there's tons of cash in the 14- to 25-year-old market.
Job is assisted by the industry's producing newer, more potent mixes.	Job is assisted by industry's producing newer, faster machines.
Often seen in the company of pimps and hustlers.	Often seen in the company of marketing people and venture capitalists.
Their product causes unhealthy addictions.	DOOM. Quake. SimCity. Duke Nukem 3D. 'Nuff said.
Do your job well, and you can sleep with sexy movie stars who depend on you.	Damn! Damn! DAMN!!!

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35 Useful Source Code Editors Reviewed

To edit HTML- and CSS-code you only need a simple plaintext-editor — the rest depends on your skills and your creativity. However, to make your life a little bit easier, you can use some more comfortable source-code editors with advanced editing features. These features can effectively support you during coding, debugging and testing. Powerful modern editors provide developers with syntax highlighting, diff, macros, plugins, code-snippets, preview-option and an integrated FTP-management tool. Some editors go even further and offer a complete integrated development environment with numerous features and functions.

In the list below we present an overview of 35 established or rather unknown — but useful source code-editors; you’ll probably find “usual suspects” — your favourite editor or the editor you’ve once been working with. But you’ll also find some rather unknown alternatives which are definitely worth considering when choosing an optimal source code editor.

Some of the “ancient” text-editors such as EMacs or Vi are still alive and have achieved a remarkable level of quality over years. We’ve presented them below proving that sometimes it is really better to consider preferring a rather old editor to a “fresh” one. The position of the editors in the list is rather random and doesn’t necessarily correspond to our personal evaluation of the editors. Please notice: even although this overview presents quite many editors, it doesn’t mention all of them.

Yesterday we’ve published a review of 25 WYSIWYG-editors. Now, what about useful source code editors? What is your favourite?

SubEthaEdit

Subethaedit (Mac)
SubEthaEdit is rather unknown, but a very powerful and lean text editor. What makes the editor different is its primary focus on collaborative web development. For instance, when using the editor you can see live what changes the other developers have introduced — in their or in your documents. When a source code file in your project has been changed, the tool notifies you immediately in the main window.

The editor includes advanced editing features such as a UNIX command line utility to enable complex and interactive pipe workflows with your terminal, completely user customizable syntax highlighting through styles, support for editing files as administrator. Improved AppleScript support to allow control of sharing features is also available. A definitive choice for collaborative coding process. Price: $29. A 30-days trial version is available.

Some of Subethaedit’s features:

• Share documents with Bonjour
• Collaborating
• AppleScript menu and manipulate text with AppleScript
• Safari-powered live-updating HTML preview
• Autocompletion
• Splitview
• Integrates with FTP clients as external editor
• Customizable syntax highlighting

Panic Coda (Mac OS), a web development software rather than a source code editor, incorporates a licensed version of the SubEthaEdit engine, rather than having a custom one, to allow for sharing of documents over the Bonjour network. Coda also boasts a new Find/Replace mechanism, which allows users to do complex replaces using a method similar to regular expressions.

Aptana Studio

Aptana Studio (Win / Mac / Linux)
Actually, Aptana Studio is a relatively new but already prominent IDE (integrated development environment) for building Ajax web applications. Aptana offers coding assistance for JavaScript, HTML, DOM, and CSS. The editor is highly customizable and extensible. Debugging, errors and warning assistance are available as well. You can also use a number of Aptana plugins which offer comfortable tools for developing with Ruby on Rails, PHP, Adobe AIR, and Apple iPhone.

Aptana has some pre-included popular Javascript libraries (Adobe Spry, Prototype, MochiKit, YUI, Mootools, Dojo Toolkit, JQuery, Scriptaculous) as well as a JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) Editor. The editor can definitely be considered as a professional and powerful source code editor.

The editor is available in two versions: the Community edition with the core pieces of the Aptana framework and Professional Edition with all features and support. The Community edition is open source. The pricing for Aptana Studio Pro, a plugin that extends the open source edition with more features, starts at $99 (thanks, Kevin Hakman).

Some of Aptana’s features:

• Visual ScriptDoc gives you a compact way to explore the hierarchy of your code.
• FTP support
• CSS Preview
• CSS, JavaScript, HTML and DOM coding assistance
• Integration with Firebug for Firefox,
• Snippets allow you to quickly insert common and frequently-used text into your documents

UltraEdit

Ultraedit (Win)
UltraEdit is probably the most advanced and therefore not lightweight text editor. It is a plaintext, HTML and HEX editor and an advanced PHP, Perl, Java and JavaScript editor for programmers. Compared to other editors, Ultraedit also include regex capabilities, keyboard shortcuts, environment and workspace support, code folding, macros, SSH/Telnet, multiline find and replace and unicode support.

UltraEdit supports disk-based 64-bit file handling (standard) on all 32-bit Windows platforms. A very popular editor which is now released in its version 14. Ultraedit costs $49.95. If you are looking for a web-development focused editor with numerous advanced features Ultraedit is the first option to consider.

Some of Ultraedit’s features:

• Code Folding
• Unicode support
• Disk based text editing and large file handling - supports files in excess of 4GB, minimum RAM used even for multi-megabyte files
• Mulitline find and replace dialogs for all searches (Find, Replace, Find in Files, Replace in Files)
• 100,000 word spell checker, with foreign languages support (American English, British English, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish and Swedish)
• Syntax highlighting — configurable, pre-configured for C/C++, VB, HTML, Java, and Perl, with special options for FORTRAN and LaTex. Multiple word-libraries are available for free download.
• FTP client built in to give access to FTP servers with multiple account settings and automatic logon and save. (32-Bit Only) Includes support for SFTP (SSH2)
• SSH/Telnet window
• Project/workspace support
• Environment Selector - Provides predefined or user-created editing "environments" that remember the state of all of UltraEdit’s dockable windows, toolbars and more for user convenience.
• Integrated scripting language to automate tasks
• Configurable keyboard mapping
• Hexadecimal editor allows editing of any binary file, shows binary and ASCII view
• Named templates
• HTML toolbar preconfigured for popular HTML functions

Komodo Edit

Komodo Edit (cross-platform)
Komodo Edit is an open-source scripting environment which was developed for programmers who need a multi-language editor with broad functionality, but not the features of an IDE, like debugging, DOM viewer, interactive shells, and source code control integration. The editor includes a full range of supported languages (Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl) and platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows ). Like Komodo IDE, Komodo Edit also supports browser-side languages like JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and XML.

Considering that Komodo Edit is free and offers functionalities which aren’t available in commercial products, it is a very impressive professional editor for dynamic languages and definitely worth checking out. You may want to consider Komodo IDE (price: $295) which is a multi-platform, multi-language development environment for end-to-end dynamic web application development.

Some of Komodo Edit’s features:

• support for all major scripting languages
• in-depth autocomplete and calltips
• multi-language file support
• syntax coloring and syntax checking
• Vi emulation
• Emacs key bindings
• code snippets and code folding
• project manager
• XPI Extensions support provides the same capability as Firefox, with all standard Mozilla APIs
• multi-user support and many more.

Eclipse

Eclipse (Java / cross-platform)
Eclipse is an open-source Java-based integrated development environment (IDE). Originally, Eclipse was meant to be used by Java developers, however, since users can extend its capabilities by installing numerous plug-ins, Eclipse is widely used by professional developers of all kind. For instance, plug-ins for C and C++ (CDT-project), Perl, PHP, ColdFusion, Ruby, Python and C# are available.

In Eclipse you will definitely find all features you would expect from a professional source sode editor. However, you will also find much more. Additionally, among nifty features of the IDE are advanced code completion, refactoring, content assist and parameter hints, snippets, advanced search, faster navigation, synchronization with CVS, actions saver (you can assign actions performed on a file each time its saved), advanced compare view, definition of team-wide settings for code clean ups (Clean Up profile), a Quick Fix assistant and many-many more. And to get the ultimate productivity boost, check out the Mylyn extension. Eclipse is a very powerful and flexible solution which should definitely be considered by professional developers.

TextMate

TextMate (Power PC / Intel Mac)
TextMate is a high-end source code editor for Mac OS which looks damn sexy. Its integration of version control systems, recordable macros, regular expression search and replace (grep) and shell integration combine most useful features in one single interface.

What is distinctive for TextMate is the integration of scope selectors: a scope selector is a pattern much like a CSS selector which is matched against the scope of the caret (i.e. current context) and the outcome is either a match or a non-match. There are also powerful macros and downloadable bundles available.

There is a 30 days tria versionl. A license costs $48.75. Windows-users can check out E - Text Editor, a text editor that directly apes TextMate and supports TextMate macro bundles and Intype.

Some of TextMate’s features:

• Ability to Search and Replace in a Project
• Clipboard History
• Completion of Words from Current Document
• CSS-like Selectors to Pinpoint the Scope of Actions and Settings
• Dynamic Outline for Working With Multiple Files
• File Tabs when Working With Projects
• Foldable Code Blocks
• Plug-able Through Your Favorite Scripting Language
• Recordable Macros With No Programming Required
• Run Shell Commands from Within a Document
• Support for Darcs, Perforce, SVK, and Subversion
• Support for More Than 50 Languages (incl. LaTeX integration)
• Switch Between Files in Projects With a Minimum of Key Strokes
• Themable Syntax Highlight Colors
• Visual Bookmarks to Jump Between Places in a File

HTML-Kit

HTML-Kit (Win)
HTML-Kit is a freeware full-featured editor designed to help HTML, XHTML and XML authors to edit, format, lookup help, validate, preview and publish web pages. Despite its name and the light download size, HTML-Kit is a multi-purpose tool that has support for several scripting and programming languages.

Features: macros, hotkeys, batch search and replace, wrapping selected text with snippets, auto/manual block indenting, auto backup files by appending a new extension or by making a copy in another folder, autosave, multiple methods of previewing, bookmarks, multi-line search and replace and more. Due to its features suite, HTML-Kit may be considered as a serious free alternative to Ultraedit.

Some of HTML-Kit’s features:

• more than 400 free plugins available for customizing and extending HTML-Kit (including ASP, CF, C#, iHTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Perl, PHP, Python, SQL etc.).
• multiple live preview modes
• code snippets
• Validate HTML, XML and CSS
• Actions Bar
• Integrate with Windows shell
• batch actions
• HTML Tidy
• auto backup and auto save
• TimeTracker
• Text to Speech Wizard
• UnicodePad
• FTP Workspace

Scriptly

Scriptly (Win)
Scriptly is an extensive, almost overloaded freeware-code-editor for coding in HTML and PHP. The editor offers 7 styles of syntax highlighting, code completion, code consistency check, code inspector, tree view of the source code for HTML, PHP and CSS, browser preview in IE and Firefox, print preview and image editing.

Hex-viewer, diff viewer, multi-file search and replace, table-assistant and MySQL-assistant are available as well. Developers can also set hotkeys, use code snippets and employ the project management tool, including to-do-notes. Hence developers get almost everything they might ever need — for free. A really powerful freeware alternative to commercial products.

BBEdit

BBEdit (PowerPC and Intel Macs)
Like Ultraedit for Windows, BBEdit is one of the well-known professional source code-editors for Mac-users. The editor was created with focus on web-authors and software-developers. Among interesting features of BBEdit are text factories which allow to automate repetitive text-processing tasks and Preview Server support you can use to preview pages which use PHP, JSP, or other server-side processing techniques.

Apart from that, file comparison, enhanced source control management (integrated support for the Subversion and Perforce allows to work with multiple repositories) and extensible syntax coloring support available.
There is a light version called TextWrangler which is free. BBEdit costs $125. If you are using Mac, BBEdit is definitely a good option to consider. There is a 30-days trial version available.

Some of BBEdit’s features:

• Automator support
• Transparently reads and writes gzip (.gz) files
• Transparently reads and writes DOS, Unix, and Mac files
• Splittable editing windows
• Automated auto-save
• Extensive FTP and SFTP support
• Run Unix scripts and filters
• Native Mac OS X spelling checker
• Comprehensive AppleScript support: scriptable, recordable, and attachable

Screem

Screem (Linux)
Screem is a web development environment for HTML/XML-documents. It’s purpose is to increase productivity when constructing a site, by providing quick access to commonly used features. While it is written for use with the GNOME desktop environment in mind it does not specifically require you to be running it, just have the libraries installed.

Screem has some nifty features such as advanced CVS support, broken link checking, intelligent code completion and support for regular expression. You can also copy some content from a web browser and have the html that was selected pasted, rather than just the text. The latest version was released in 2005, but it’s still worth considering when using Linux.

Some of Screem’s features:

• Broken Link Checking
• CTags Support
• CVS Support
• Document Structure Display
• Helper Applications
• Inline Tagging
• Page Previewing
• Page Templates
• Spell Checking
• Syntax Highlighting
• Wizards

CSSEdit

CSSEdit (Mac)
While most editors presented in this overview are (X)HTML- or PHP-oriented, CSSEdit focuses on CSS, offering a solid foundation for standards-based web-designs. Among other things, CSSEdit offers real-time styling: even when your dynamic Web App is powered by a complex database or makes use of AJAX, you can style and analyze it without the hassle of uploading or refreshing.

The editor also uses intelligent CodeSense, so instead of suggesting a list of predefined keywords, it actually analyzes your Style Sheet and behavior to offer smart, context-sensitive suggestions. A fresh, nice-looking, intuitive and powerful application for editing stylesheets. Price: 29.95 €.

Some of CSSEdit’s features:

• live preview
• Selector Builder lets you describe what elements to style in plain English.
• elegant visual interface
• intelligent source editing
• X-ray Inspector shows you what styles apply to the web page
• Validation Inspector lets you validate your style sheets against W3C standards
• Milestones integration

Arachnophilia

Arachnophilia (Java / all)
Arachnophilia is a freeware Java-based legacy editor which was first released in the mid 90s. The tool is a powerful programming editor with some special HTML production and editing features. The editor has RegExp functions and the text compare functionality. It doesn’t offer something revolutionary, but it is cross-plattform. The last version 5.3 was released in March 2008.

Some of Arachnophilia’s features:

• HTML Validate will help you find and correct structural errors in your pages
• Code Beautifier
• Spell Checker
• Advanced FTP Operations

CoffeeCup HTML Editor

CoffeeCup (Win)
This editor was first released in 1996 and was regularly updated since then. The last version offers decent HTML & CSS code completion, document dependency check and 40 bullet proof CSS/XHTML layouts. The built-in WYSIWYG-editor should be avoided as it is quite quirky and doesn’t produce meaningful code. The editor itself, however, is focused on producing clean and valid markup. Powerful, but no amazing. Price: $49. A trial-version is available (Nagware).

Some of Coffeecup’s features:

• HTML & CSS Code Completion
• Quick Tag Help
• Project Management
• Graphics Collections
• Wizards
• Built-in SiteMapperCreator

Smultron

Smultron (Mac)
Smultron is a free text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10 with useful features one won’t find in any alternative — even commercial — products. E.g. if you don’t want to be disturbed by other applications or the desktop you can let Smultron cover the whole screen to let you concentrate on your work. You can preview HTML-files directly in Smultron and save snippets of text and insert them with a shortcut.

Smultron can also use regular expressions and it can run commands and scripts. It can be used for a whole variety of needs — particularly, for web programming or script editing. Intuitive and powerful.

Some of Smultrons features:

• split window
• snippets
• AppleScript support (limited)
• support for the ODB Editor Suite
• auto-completion
• command-line utility

EditPlus

EditPlus (Win)
EditPlus is a lightweight text editor, HTML editor and source code editor for Windows. It can serve as a good Notepad replacement, but it also offers many powerful features for Web page authors and programmers. A distinctive feature of EditPlus is its support for user-defined tools, help files and keystroke recording files. The output of tool execution can be captured in the Output Window, so that you can double-click the error line to automatically load the file and locate the cursor to that line.

Among other things you can also use multi-line regex-based find & replace, auto indentation, code folding, compiler integration, shell integration and an integrated web browser. The last version was released in April 2008. Price: $35. There is also an evaluation version available.

Some of EditPlus’ features:

• integrated Web browser for previewing
• Ruler
• Auto-completion
• Powerful search and replace
• Multiple undo/redo
• Spell checker
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts

EmEditor

EmEditor (Win)
EmEditorText Editor is a lightweight yet extendable and simple text editor for Windows. Compared to other editors, it is very quick, highly customizable and portable. E.g. you can easily set up a removable USB drive to copy project and configuration files to a new machine. A useful feature of EmEditor is its ability to record and play keystrokes and mouse operation against other applications. This capability allows you to automate certain tasks, e.g. when testing your applications.

The Shell Object is used to send keystroke and mouse activities and to enumerate or find top-level windows. Furthermore, the editor supports Unicode and macros. EmEditor is certified for Windows Vista and can quickly open huge files — up to 248 GB or 2.1 billion lines — with only a little memory. Price: $39.99.

PageSpinner

PageSpinner (Mac)
PageSpinner is an easy-to-use, professional web page editor for Mac OS which supports HTML, XHTML, PHP, SSI, CSS with a built-in JavaScript generator. Among other features PageSpinner has a built-in FTP support, customizable syntax color-coding of JavaScript, PHP, Cascading Style Sheets and the integration with Apache and the Terminal in OS X.

PageSpinner also supports Include files that enable you to change common sections on all pages in a folder or a site, by simply editing a single include file. Price: $29.95. The editor can be used for free 21 days.

Some of PageSpinner’s features:

• built-in FTP support
• customizable syntax color-coding
• support for Server Side Includes,
• integration with Apache and the Terminal in OS X
• Fully customizable Live previews
• HTML validation
• A Tag Clipboard
• AppleScript support

skEdit

skEdit (Mac)
skEdit is a rather unknown, but very flexible text editor for web-development on Mac OS. Compared to other applications, it offeres the integration of a version control system (Subversion) which is often unavailable in alternative products. Apart from that, skEdit is an intuitive editor which covers most of web-developer’s needs. Price: $34.95. There is a 25-days trial version.

Some of skEdit’s features:

• Edit files over FTP, SFTP, or WebDAV
• Extensible Editing
• Code Completion
• Snippets
• HTML Tidy
• User Scripts
• Preview in Browser

HateML Pro

HateML Pro (Win)
HateML Pro is a lightweight freeware editor and a powerful PHP IDE with support for (X)HTML and CSS for both professional and novice users alike. It was designed with focus on helping to accelerate the process of editing and debugging web applications, php scripts and XHTML sites. The editor offers a standard suite for efficient web-development: automatic syntax checker, intelligent code-completion tool (IntelliSense & CodeHint), PHP debugger, built-in FTP-client, MySQL Manager and an integrated preview.

Some of HateML Pro’s features:

• Advanced Syntax Highlighting
• Automatic syntax checker
• IntelliSense & CodeHint
• Debugger & Profiler
• CodeBrowser
• FTP Client
• MySQL Manager (plugin)

Emacs

Emacs (22 operating systems, among them Linux, Mac OS X and Windows)
Emacs (Editor MACroS) is the classic and legacy editing application among Linux-editors. It is the oldest (1976) and the most authoritative editor presented in this overview. There is a large number of extensions that add further functionalities, including a project planner, mail and news reader, debugger interface, calendar, and more.

The editor is popular for its built-in macros and powerful keyboard shortcuts that make editing text documents very efficient. However, you need to climb the learning curve which is quite time-consuming and isn’t easy to achieve for beginners. You can also consider GNU Emacs and XEmacs which are both advanced, open source and cross plattform versions of EMacs. Emacs is freeware and is released under GNU-License. An advanced option for hardcore-programmers.

Some of Emacs’ features:

• Many Languages
• Complete built-in documentation, including a tutorial for new users.
• Highly customizable, using Emacs Lisp code or a graphical customization interface.
• Content-sensitive editing modes

Adobe HomeSite

Adobe HomeSite (Win / Mac)
Homesite was once one of the leading code-editors widely used among developers. Many things have happened since then: finally HomeSite has joined the Adobe family where it doesn’t really matter any more today. However, HomeSite has some nifty features such as project management, integrated CSS editor, code snippets, tag inspector, tag insight and tag completion, macro recorder, folder deployment, auto backup, highly extensible user interface and Fireworks integration.

Macromedia HomeSite+ is included with Macromedia Dreamweaver. The software can be bought at Adobe for $99. Powerful and useful, even if it’s not really used often.

Some of Homesite’s features:

• Macro Recorder
• Tag Editor
• Tag Insight and Tag Completion
• Tag Inspector and Tag Tree
• XHTML 1.0 Support
• Enhanced Code Snippets
• Code Snippets
• Productivity Wizards
• Integrated CSS Editor
• Secondary Files Tab
• Project Management and FTP
• Find & Replace/li>
• Auto Backup
• Multi-Language Validator
• Code Formatting

Notepad++

Notepad++ (Win)
A free, mature source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment. The editor can be considered as an advanced yet simple text-editor which is extremely customizable and offers most functionalities which are available in high-end commercial products. Alternative: Notepad 2.

Some of Notepad++’s features:

• Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding
• User Defined Syntax Highlighting
• Auto-completion
• Multi-Document
• Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
• Full Drag’n’ Drop supported
• Zoom in and zoom out
• Multi-Language environment supported
• Macro recording and playback

NoteTab

NoteTab (Win)
NoteTab is a mature text and HTML editor which has been first released in 1998. This application does it all: it can handle a stack of huge files; it has advanced formatting features, offers multi-line global replacements and corrects your spelling mistakes. There are 3 versions of NoteTab. If you are going to use NoteTab, it’s reasonable to only use the Pro Version which costs $29,95.

Some of NoteTab’s (Pro Version) 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

PSPad

PSPad (Win)
PSPad is another freeware source code editor which should be in every review of professional editing applications.
As a web authoring editor, PSPad contains syntax highlighting, macros, clip files and templates. Integrated HEX Editor, Project support, FTP Client, Macro Recorder, File Search/Replace, Code Explorer, Code page conversion are available as well. PSPad a;sp catches and parses compiler output, and can compare different source code versions. PSPad is Freeware.

Some of PSPad’s features:

• work with several documents at the same time (MDI)
• FTP client - edit files directly from the web
• macro recorder to record, save and load macros
• text difference with color-coded differences highlighted
• templates (HTML tags, scripts, code templates…)
• installation contains templates for HTML, PHP, Pascal, JScript, VBScript, MySQL, MS-Dos, Perl,…
• syntax highlighting according to file type
• user-defined highlighters for exotic environments
• auto correction
• intelligent internal HTML preview using IE and Mozilla
• full HEX editor
• external compiler with output catcher, log window and log parser for an "IDE" effect in every environment
• integrated TiDy library for formatting and checking HTML code, conversion to CSS, XML, XHTML
• export with highlight to RTF, HTML, TeX format to file or clipboard
• reformat and compress HTML code, tag character case change
• Code explorer for Pascal, C/C++, INI, HTML, XML, PHP and more in development
• spell checker
• internal web browser with APACHE support

jEdit

jEdit (Java / all)
jEdit is, together with Arachnophilia, another cross-platfrom source text editor for professional coding. The editor supports over 130 file types. The current line is highlighted; the source text is divided into blocks such that the beginning and the end of braces are directly visible. Copy-Paste-friends have an unlimited number of clipboards. You can split windows in multiple viewing modes and save the configuration for further projects. jEdit is free — it is released under GPL 2.0 license. Very powerful, however not that easy to get used to first.

Some of jEdit’s features:

• Built-in macro language; extensible plugin architecture. Dozens of macros and plugins available.
• Plugins can be downloaded and installed from within jEdit using the "plugin manager" feature.
• Auto indent, and syntax highlighting for more than 130 languages.
• Supports a large number of character encodings including UTF8 and Unicode.
• Folding for selectively hiding regions of text.
• Word wrap.

TopStyle

TopStyle
This editor was written by the creator of HomeSite. The program offers unique features, including the option to upgrade your HTML documents by replacing outdated markup with equivalent styling. You can also convert HTML to XHTML and check your CSS syntax against multiple browsers, using a side-by-side preview. Price: $79.95, a trial-version is available.

Some of TopStyle’s features:

• Split the preview between Internet Explorer and Mozilla
• Preview CSS
• CSS Checker
• Customizable main window
• Style Upgrade tool to quickly replace all outdated HTML code.
• Site Reports

Quanta Plus

Quanta Plus (Linux)
Quanta is widely recognized as the most advanced free software web development environment. But a lot of people do not know that Quanta is a friendly editor for all XML documents. You can even import DTDs, write scripts to manage editor contents, visually create dialogs for your scripts and assign script actions to nearly any file operation in a project. Quanta is based on KDE and was released under GPL.

Some of Quanta’s features:

• Templates
• Plugins
• Integrated preview
• User toolbars and actions
• Project management

Taco HTML Edit

Taco HTML Edit (Mac)
A free software for Mac OS X. It is designed to simplify the process of creating attractive web sites that render correctly in various browsers. Taco HTML Edit includes tag wizards, which generate valid HTML markup. Taco HTML Edit also helps find errors in your HTML markup, and it can also check spelling in your documents.

Some of Taco’s features:

• Code Clips
• Insert Wizards
• Live Preview
• Syntax Checking
• Tag Coloring

TSW WebCoder

TSW WebCoder (Win)
With a very strong focus on HTML, CSS, PHP/MySQL, but also with features which cover JavaScript, XML and ASP.NET, in TSW WebCode you probably get all features a modern source editor for web-development really needs.

You can use code inspector to directly preview the properties of a given element, FTP-manager allows you to upload file changes directly to the server. With Project ToDo-list you can check what is done and what is needed to be done. Also, a browser preview option (for IE and Firefox) provides you with the result of your work.

Finally, you can verify and validate your code with Integrated W3C validation and real syntax check for PHP and keep track of your projects with ease, using the advanced project management. A very compact and powerful source code editor. WebCoder 2007 can be purchased for $59.99 for personal use and $89.99 for commercial use. A trial-version is available.

Some of TSW WebCoder’s features:

• Built-in FTP client
• CodeFolding
• CodeSnippets
• CSS Inspector
• MySQL database client
• Search & replace in multiple files
• Syntax coloring and wordwrap

TextPad

TextPad (Win)
A general purpose editor for plain text files. Really easy to use, with most of the features a power user requires. Whether you simply need a powerful replacement for Notepad, a tool for editing your web pages, or a programming IDE, TextPad does what you want, the way you would expect.

Some of TextPad’s features:

• Huge files can be edited, up to the limits of virtual memory.
• English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish user interfaces.
• A spelling checker with dictionaries in 10 languages.
• Multiple files can be simultaneously edited, with up to 2 views per file.
• Warm Start feature lets you restart exactly where you left off.
• Text can be automatically word-wrapped at the margin, or at a specified column, if it does not fit on a line.
• Unlimited undo/redo capability.
• A keystroke macro recorder, with up to 16 active macros.
• Toolbar with fly-by usage hints, and an active status bar.
• A powerful search/replace engine using UNIX-style regular expressions, with the power of editor macros.
• A built in file manager for fast file copying, renaming, deleting etc.
• Viewer for binary files using a hexadecimal display format.
• Built in file comparison utility, and up to 16 user-defined tools with argument macros.

Vim

Vim (all)
Vim (Vi IMproved), first released by Bram Moolenaar in 1991 for the Amiga computer, is a legend. It is a highly configurable console text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems. The editor is often called a “programmer’s editor” for keyboard macros and powerful set of programmer’s tools and it is so useful for programming that many consider it an entire IDE. Like vi, Vim’s interface is based not on menus or icons but on commands given in a text user interface.

Vim has derived from Vi which looks pretty nasty although is pretty powerful. You may want to check out gVim or gVim Portable for Windows (with graphical user interface) and MacVim for the Mac.

Vim is extremely powerful. With this editor you can do everything you might ever think of. Vim isn’t simple, it isn’t intuitive and it isn’t user-friendly: it is a tool, the use of which must be learned. A nice application to start becoming a coding ninja with.

• syntax highlighting for over 200 languages (you can define your own syntax)
• Edit-Compile-Fix: You edit a program, type “:make” and Vim shows the error messages in a window.
• highlighting matches: when you search for a pattern, all matches found can be highlighted.
• you can map keys, change the colors, add new commands, use scripts
• completion, comparison and merging of files (vimdiff)
• extended regular expressions
• scripting languages (both native and through alternative scripting interpreters such as Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, etc.)
• folding: a range of lines can be hidden, and one line displayed instead. This gives a quick overview of what a file contains.
• editing of compressed or archived files in gzip, bzip2, zip, and tar format and files over network protocols such as SSH, FTP, and HTTP
• session state preservation
• unicode and other multi-language support
• trans-session command
• cursor position histories

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TorrentSpy ordered to pay $110m

File-sharing site TorrentSpy has been ordered to pay $110m (£56m) in damages to the Motion Picture Association of America for copyright infringement.

The ruling from a court in the United States comes just weeks after the website shut down.

TorrentSpy facilitated the illegal sharing of copyright files by hosting a collection of links to films and music.

TorrentSpy parent company Valence Media and its owners Justin Bunnell and Wes Park have filed for bankruptcy.

The MPAA first began legal action against the website in February 2006.

"This substantial money judgement sends a strong message about the illegality of these sites," said Dan Glickman, chairman of the MPAA.

"The demise of TorrentSpy is a clear victory for the studios."

TorrentSpy utilised a legitimate file-sharing technology called BitTorrent. It makes it easier to exchange large files over the internet without having to rely on central servers, with individual users sending and sharing bits of files.

In a four-page ruling, US District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper said that TorrentSpy had to pay $30,000 for "each of the 3,699 infringements shown".

The judgement is one of the largest fines ever handed down for copyright theft.

TorrentSpy shut down on 24 March and the website now has a message saying it has closed as "the ultimate method of privacy protection".

It states: "The legal climate in the USA for copyright, privacy of search requests, and links to torrent files in search results in simply too hostile."

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Windows XP Service Pack 3 Network Installation Available

Microsoft has finally made the Windows XP Service Pack 3 Network Installation Package for IT Professionals and Developers available from Microsoft Downloads.

The x86 version clocks in at 316.4 MB and is intended for system administrators who are required to updated more than 1 computer, or if you don't want to have use Windows Update the next time you clean install Windows XP.

Additionally, Microsoft also released a x86 ISO image of Windows XP SP3 standalone update CD. Currently there is no SP3 update for Windows XP (x64) because the kernel is based on Windows Server 2003 (x64) which has a separate update time-line. For release notes, checked build versions check here for both Vista SP1 and XP SP3.

Download: Windows XP SP3 Network Install (x86) | 316.4 MB
Download: Windows XP SP3 Update ISO Image (x86) | 544.9 MB (Updates XP to SP3 only).

 

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The Most Popular Free WYSIWYG Editors - Web based HTML editors

The WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) concept is present in almost every content creation or update action performed over the web. The WYSIWYG principle implies that in the final form, the published version, the content will have a similar structure and appearance with the one obtained during the editing process.

Modern web applications and sites have implemented WYSIWYG editors as necessary functionality both for users (in case of comments or feedback forms, forums posts and more) and administrators who update or add content to a website with the help of online visual tools. For example, almost all content management systems provide in administration control panel a WYSIWYG HTML editor or the possibility to add one as plug-in.

WYSYWYG editors allow persons that do not have technical skills to add or edit website content in a visual manner because they automatically generate the necessary HTML code to reflect certain user actions, like changing the text heading, adding or resizing an image, inserting audio or video files in web pages and more. The web based WYSIWYG editors are widely used because they require only a browser to run and allow users to perform website content modification online, without the need to use supplementary FTP programs or to install third party applications.

The most popular WYSIWYG editors are written in JavaScript-DHTML and many of them also use AJAX technology. These editors ensure a maximum degree of compatibility with the majority of web browsers, have a high loading speed (the source code is compressed) and provide easy to understand graphical user interfaces.

Xinha is an easy to configure and implement WYSIWYG HTML editor compatible with browsers based on Gecko engine and Internet Explorer. It can be added to any type of application ranging from a simple one field form editor to complex website updating tools. Another lightweight and fast web based HTML editor is FCKeditor. It outputs XHTML 1.0, automatically detects user language (offers multilanguage support) and can be integrated in any server side application.

TinyMCE allows you to transform any HTML element into a WYSIWYG editable object. There are multiple customization options available for this editor. For example, through Gzip compression method on server side, TinyMCE file sizes are reduced up to 75%. The content update could also be performed by employing AJAX technology (without refreshing the current page) in a few lines of code.

WYMeditor is a WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) XHTML editor that outputs structured XHTML code in compliance with W3C standards. The user cannot alter the code due to the separation between the layout and content structure. The results are reflected in better information management. WYMeditor performance and usability is close to a WYSIWYG HTML editor.

NicEdit and Damn Small Rich Text Editor are two examples of applications based on AJAX technology that allows you to add online content editing features to your applications. By using WYSIWYG editors of this type, the web page element editing functionality can be added in a global manner and only with a few lines of code. If you have a blog or a content management system, Loki (a semantic WYSIWYG XHTML editor) provides integration possibilities through RSS feeds.

The applications presented in this article should demonstrate the endless integration options and editing capabilities of web based WYSIWYG HTML editors. The selection of an appropriate editor for a certain project will depend on various factors like integration possibilities, editor file size, editor graphical user interface and more.

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