February 12, 2012

Techbits #1: Notepad++

Let's get the ball rolling!

Here we go with our first Techbit, one of my favourite open source utilities: Notepad++.

Notepad++ is a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) editor with lot of rich functionality. It provides you with a lot more functionality than the editors available by default on your operating system i.e. than Notepad or Wordpad if your computer is running Windows.

Yes, there are other editors like EditPlus and TextPad. However, these are commercial applications and are supposed to be used only on an evaluation basis - unless you want to buy them from thereon. With the ethical nature of application usage after the completion of evaluation period being one reason, the other reason for you to start using Notepad++ is to encourage Open Source.

Notepad++ can be downloaded from http://notepad-plus-plus.org/.

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