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Funny News on Notepad++

Recently I updated my installation of the swiss army knife of programming - Notepad++ - and I stumbled upon the notes of the author of N++ (find it online here):

My laptop was screwed by my smelly cat. By trying to jump to my desk, she reversed one cup of coffee on it.

It will cost me a lot of money (1 thousand euros !) to repair it, so I just let it die (laptop, not cat).

So now I’m waiting my laptop manufacturer returns me back my dead laptop in order to get all my development from the hard disk.

I especially like the disambiguation that he didn’t let his cat die! Beside the actual fun value of these words they had a rather surprising effects: The author of N++ got a computer for ongoing development, quite a cool part of hardware …

I never really liked the whole web interface thing …

Although I’m rather happy with blogs in general, I really appreciate real applications. Currently I’m testing ScribeFire, an Firefox extension for creating blog entries. It seems to integrate with my blog(s) seamlessly and promises to be a good friend Seems also to support spell checking …

Irfanview & Launchy Updates

Missed it when they where fresh & new, but however, better now than never.

Irfanview has been released in v4.0. IrfanvieView is a free and extremely powerful image viewer for Windows (now also Vista, but I haven’t tried). This is one thing I really miss on Linux!

Launchy is out in v1.25. Launchy is a small Windows utility, which opens a very small input window when pressing <alt>-<space>. As it has indexed all your programs from the start menu you just type in a few letters and you program is highlighted. With hitting <enter> you can start it. I haven’t used my start menu sinced I installed Launchy :-D. With v1.25 you can also search Google (google <tab> [search term]) or view the weather forecast (weather <tab> [location]). The most important feature however is Navigation to folders (start e.g. with ‘c:’ <tab> …)