Win; Mac; Linux Whenever I do programming I tend to use some form of text editor, and so far my favorite app for that is Notepad++. Ever since they added in the code auto-completion it has been a great tool for the projects that I’ve worked on. The only downside is that it won’t exactly work if you’re looking for a free cross-platform solution. That’s where Editra comes in. It’s a Python-based program that has ...

Whenever we’re wrapping up a poll on CyberNet, we always include a graph that provides more visual results of how the poll turned out. It’s easy to do because PollDaddy, the service that we use to manage our polls, provides the graphs for us. For one of our recent polls, someone asked in the comments how we made the chart. We responded and explained how, that we use PollDaddy. At that point we weren’t aware ...

Google has finally begun migrating RSS feeds that are being hosted on Feedburner over to Google’s own servers. It’s been over a year since Google acquired Feedburner, and since then the service’s 1.92 million feeds have generally been untouched. Why now? Google has begun rolling out Adsense for feeds after closing the doors on Feedburner’s CPM-based advertising solution. Before you can place ads in your feeds, however, you’ll need to migrate them over to Google’s ...

The last few Alpha releases of Ubuntu 8.10 have been a bit controversial because of the dark brown theme, called NewHuman, that it was shipping by default. Good news for those of you who weren’t too fond of that theme… it’s no longer default in Alpha 4! The NewHuman theme is still included as an option, but a new one called Human-Murrine has taken over the default spot. I downloaded and installed the new Ubuntu ...

It was almost one year ago that we first got a glimpse of what Firefox Mobile looked like running on the Nokia N800. Then in January we saw some mockups of what their iPhone-like interface might look like for other devices, and even more recently we saw a video demonstration that knocked our socks off with an intuitive tab navigation system. Where’s the project at now? The version that runs on the N800 is making ...

Windows only uTorrent is definitely one of my favorite BitTorrent clients on Windows, and after 9-months of development version 1.8 has finally been released. This new release includes full Vista support (including the Windows Firewall), Teredo/IPv6, and numerous other enhancements. Back in December 2006 you may recall our concern as to where uTorrent was going to head since it had been acquired by BitTorrent. A lot of dedicated followers said that they would be switching ...

About a week ago we wrote a MyFive including five things we wished the iPhone 3G had. Among them were more than a 2 megapixel camera, a flash for the camera and video recording, multimedia messaging service, a replaceable battery, and a 32GB option. In the comments, Pieter pointed out that to be fair, we should write another article about five things that the iPhone can do better than other phones. We thought it was ...

(Click to Enlarge) Windows only One thing that Microsoft finally got around to doing in Vista is making it easier to manage the partitions on your hard drive. Using the built-in Disk Management you can do most common operations without needing any third-party tools, and in my experience it works pretty well. Windows XP users aren’t quite as fortunate when it comes to resizing partitions on their computer. Up until now finding a partition manager ...

Weekend Website Back in December, we introduced you to a site called ConsumerSearch, an online publisher and aggregator of consumer product reviews and search. We talked about the benefits of putting the time into reading reviews before you buy including time saved and money better spent. It’s definitely a great site worth checking out if you like researching potential purchases. To add to ConsumerSearch we were recently introduced to another great site called alaTest. AlaTest ...

If you shop Amazon.com frequently for books for whatever reason, maybe because they are more affordable than your local bookstore, but you miss the experience of actually looking at books on the shelf, checkout Zoomii. Zoomii is a site I recently stumbled upon that tries to give users a “real” bookstore experience by placing books on shelves to browse through. You use your mouse to “drag” yourself all over the bookstore, and you can zoom ...

Fun Friday Several months ago we put together some tech trivia so that you could test your tech knowledge. It was fun, so we decided to do a Part 2! We tried to make some of them a little more challenging than others. Let us know how you did! How many songs have been sold via iTunes (according to Apple’s latest report)? A. 10 billion B. 5 billion C. 1 billion D. 15 billion How ...

BBC recently posted a video titled “Britain seen from the skies above” and while it was fascinating simply to watch, to think about it really gave us a new perspective on privacy. It’s a real short clip, about a minute, so take a look and you’ll see what we mean: Everybody is concerned about privacy online yet not many pay attention to privacy elsewhere. People are being tracked all over the place as the video ...

As you probably remember Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 1 was sporting a very brown theme when it was released, and it made some people do a double-take to figure out what the heck was going on. Just about two-weeks ago Alpha 3 was released of the new version of Ubuntu, and it still included the dark brown theme (called NewHuman) from the original release. I’m not a big fan of the new theme, and I’m not ...

It looks as though Microsoft is dancing around the fact that they need a forum - a place where people can go to post their tips and questions for anything Microsoft related whether it be Windows or the Zune. They just relaunched Windowslive.com as a community site which we see as a step in the right direction, but they aren’t quite there yet. Speaking to Read Write Web, the Windows Live senior marketing manager Marty ...

Time Saving Tuesday Windows only One trend that I’ve noticed as bandwidth and hard drive storage space continues to grow is that sending CD/DVD’s over the Internet is becoming a preferred way for distributing media. These files are typically in an ISO or BIN/CUE format, which most people will then burn to a CD/DVD before using them. The good news is that you can easily save the time and money involved in doing this by ...

(Click to Enlarge) Songbird is a media player that I’ve had a lot of faith in ever since I took a look at it back at version 0.2. The fact that users create extensions just like in Firefox gave the perception that it would become very successful, but for awhile development had slowed down considerably. I’m happy to say that the first Release Candidate of Songbird 0.7 was released, and it keeps on getting more ...

When you ask Firefox users what their favorite extension is they’ll commonly say Adblock Plus. It’s currently the second most popular extension on the add-ons site, and receives over 250,000 downloads every week. With numbers like that you’d expect the extension to be installed on nearly every copy of Firefox, but that’s not the case. What I found out when I released CyberSearch was that any developer can choose whether or not they want the ...

In the past we have said that it would be nice if Gmail offered the option to create a white list for messages from certain email addresses that should never be sent to the spam folder. We can’t really complain about Gmail’s spam filter because it does a fantastic job catching actual spam, but on occasion it will manage to take a “good” message and put it in the spam folder. If you’re expecting a ...

Back in May we wrote about a website called Scrabulous where you could go to play the classic game of Scrabble. We mentioend at the time that there was also a version of it available on Facebook as a Facebook App, but we weren’t sure how long they were going to be around. The reason we said that was because Hasbro and Mattel had asked Facebook to remove it. The makers of Scrabble would have ...

July 2008 has come to a close, and as always we enjoy taking a look at how the browser and operating system market share changed from the previous month. July was actually a big month for monitoring web browser usage because it’s the first full month that the browsers have had to bake onto the machines of millions and millions of users. Were the new releases a success? Judging by the stats from Net Applications ...