Monthly Archives: June 2007

Notepad++ v4.1 released – Notepad++ is a free generic source code editor (and Notepad replacement), which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment.

The version 4.1 is available. In this release not only the interface of Find in files dialog is improved distinctly, but find, replace and find in files dialogs are now 3 in 1.

The version 1.73 of Scintilla include the CMake lexer. And just by chance, I worked a lot with CMake recently at work, so I updated Scintilla from v1.71 to v1.73, and supports the language of CMake. CMakeLists.txt is also available for the source code of Notepad++ (in “src” directory). It’s tested only with the generation of VC project file, but not with the generation of MinGW makefile.

3 new plugins are added in this release : SpellChecker, NppExec and QuickText. SpellChecker help you to corect the tipos in your document. You should have aspell instaled to make it work. With NppExec plugin you can execute your commands or saved scripts without leaving Notepad++. It makes you triple your productivity! QuickText is a snippet manager. Once you define all your snippet in you beloved language, type the macro keyword then Ctrl+Enter – I can hear you say “wow”.

Another new feature is the clickable URL (http only). It’s rather a gadget, but I like it.

v4.1 fixed bugs and added features (from v4.0.2) :

1. Fix the crash issue while saving settings on quit.
2. Fix the crash issue while using the command line with one launched Notepad++ instance.
3. Enhance Find in files feature :
* Improve Find in files user interface (more intuitive).
* The search result (also for find in all opened files) is docked on the bottom of Notepad++.
* Recursive search is optional.
* Search result is collapsable by file.
* User defined keywords for search result.
4. Add tabbing interface in Find dialog : Find/Replace/Find in files
5. Add clickable URL http link feature (double click to trigger).
6. Add cmake language support.
7. Add mark all without launching Find dialog (Ctrl+M).
8. Fix the ROFL (Recent Opened File List) bug : try to open a non-existing file from ROFL, the full file path doesn’t be removed from ROFL.
9. Enhance the backup feature : in verbose mode, the file will be backed up in .\nppBackup directory.
10. Update Scintilla component to v1.73

For further information about this project, see :
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/
and the project page :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/

Don

[SourceForge]

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This is a very interesting application, if you have lots of domain names that you’re looking to sell. This application can do everything for you.

Domain Name Portfolio 0.6.2 (Default branch) – align="right" alt="Screenshot" hspace="10" vspace="10">
Domain Name Portfolio is a Web based application to help domain owners better organize their portfolio. It allows you to list your domains with their expiry date, registrar, price, status, and category. It also allows visitors to your portfolio to contact you about a given domain.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
A bug in the emailer class which caused a parse
error was fixed.

[FreshMeat]

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This is really funny, NSA employee’s have problems trusting each other.

Underfunded NSA Suffers Brownouts – An anonymous reader writes “Almost ten years after the an internal report, and a year after a Baltimore sun story warned that the electrical system at the fort Meade NSA HQ couldn’t keep up with the growing electricity demand … the problem has got worse. The ‘NSA has had to resort to partial, rolling brownouts at its computer farms and scheduled power outages and some offices are experiencing significant power disruptions’. NSA director Alexander testified to congress about this problem. It is suggested he wanted to add more than $800 million to the 07 budget. A recent public powerpoint presentation suggested 70% of of all intelligence spending goes to contractors. It also included a graph, without numbers, of this spending. It suggests that US intelligence spending is around $60 billion. An internal survey that showed NSA employees have problems trusting each other.”

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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If you’re a hard core HTML/CSS/PHP hacker, this list will come in handy. It has lots and lots of tools that will help you with the average day hacking. Some will shave off minutes from development time and other hours.

Essential List on Firefox Extensions for Webmaster The Essential List and Resources on Firefox Extensions is a popular post here, due to one reason – Firefox has too many extensions and it is difficult and time consuming for a user who just wanted to install some cool extensions to get started on their Firefox journey. Because our original list was more toward normal and daily usage – and being a part time webmaster and blogger, I want to introduce some of the extensions I used to assist my webmaster responsibilities and tasks. Oh yes, I will only display extensions that save my web developing time for other tasks and projects in my life. Same drill here – I am going to list some must have, should have and good to have extensions, based on my experience and usage:

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Unfortunately there is no swiftweasel for debian etch/testing:

I had to browse to the SourceForge project page, and download the appropriate version for my machine, which is a athlon64/32bit.

I just untar’d the file, and ran ./firefox from within the directory and it picked up all my settings and everything. Next I had to set it up so that I just had to type firefox within a console. So I created a symlink in my ‘bin’ folder with all my other custom perl scripts and other command line programs/scripts:

I also had to setup my fluxbox keybinding like so:

I originally was using “iceweasel” which is the Debian fork of Firefox, you can read why Debian had to fork Firefox on WikiPedia

I do notice a difference, pages load pretty fast and the FasterFox Plugin helps. However they packaged an extension called “AdBlocks” which I’ve never used and I don’t really like. But for now I have just removed it.

Swiftweasel 2.0.0.4.1 (Default branch) – Swiftweasel is an optimized build of the Mozilla
Firefox Web browser for Linux. It offers builds
for both AMD and Intel processors. Swiftweasel is
100% compatible with all Firefox themes, plugins,
and extensions.
License: Mozilla Public License (MPL)
Changes:
The update notifications feature that made its
first appearance in 2.0.0.5pre is installed. When
a new version is available, you will be notified
so you can get it. Further font rendering
improvements were done. Automatic detection of
plugins is done in common directories in the file
system. A few more build tweaks were made. The
“Release Notes” option in the Help section brings
up the release notes.
[FreshMeat]

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CheckGmail 1.12 (Default branch) – align="right" alt="Screenshot" hspace="10" vspace="10">
CheckGmail is a system tray application that checks a Gmail
account for new mail. It is fast, secure, and uses minimal
bandwidth via the use of Atom feeds.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
This release adds information about attachments
and clickable URIs in the message full text.
Numerous bugs have been fixed, including the
issues with XGL/Compiz, international character
display, and multiple monitors.

[FreshMeat]

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Zoph 0.7pre2 (Pre-release branch) – align="right" alt="Screenshot" hspace="10" vspace="10">
There are many photo-gallery programs available. Zoph is different, as it concentrates on the management of large collection of photos instead of just showing them on the Web. It can store a lot of information about your photos, including the regular EXIF info, photographer, location, title, description, rating, and the people in the photo. Photos can appear in multiple albums and categories. Additional features include search, slideshows, lightboxes, email, access privileges, and multiple languages.

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License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

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Changes:
A few bugs have been solved and all translations
have been updated. All duplicate and unused
strings have been removed from the translation
files. Dutch, German, Canadian English, French,
Norwegian, and even Swedish Chef are completely up
to date now. Danish, Italian, and Turkish are
almost up to date. [FreshMeat]

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Blender animations help prevent crime in Britain –

The Avon and Somerset Constabulary in Great Britain uses animations created with the open source tool Blender to help citizens understand how to protect their vehicles and possessions from theft.

[Linux.com]

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This is a good article, talks about RedHat and Microsoft and how RedHat knows whats actually going down.

Why Red Hat doesn't need a deal with Microsoft –

The trade press reported a lot of rumors this past week about the chances for a patent protection pact between Red Hat and Microsoft similar to the agreements Microsoft negotiated with Novell, Xandros, and Linspire. Red Hat doesn’t appear to be interested in the least. Here’s why.

[Linux.com]

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Safari 3.0.2 Beta – Safari has always been the fastest browser on the Mac and now it’s the fastest browser on Windows, loading and drawing web pages up to twice as fast as Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Mozilla Firefox 2.

Why you’ll love Safari:

* Blazing Performance2x Faster – Safari is the fastest web browser on any platform.
* Elegant User Interface – Safari’s clean look lets you focus on the web – not your browser.
* Easy Bookmarks – Organize your bookmarks just like you organize music in iTunes.
* Pop-up Blocking – Say goodbye to annoying pop-up ads and pop-under windows.
* Inline Find – Search any text on any website with the integrated Find banner.
* Tabbed Browsing – Open and switch between multiple web pages in a single window.
* SnapBackSnapback – Instantly snap back to search results or the top level of a website.
* Forms AutoFill – Let Safari complete online forms for you, automatically and securely.

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[NeoWin-Software]

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