A zero-day vulnerability has been found in Windows Notepad. The security expert who found the vulnerability showed a screenshot on Twitter indicating that by using this vulnerability a potential attacker can launch programs or commands from Notepad. Using a small trick, the attacker can bring up command line or cmd.exe. This in turn can be Read More …
When we have to edit a plain text file, we often think of Windows Notepad or Notepad++, but there are many other great alternatives too. EverEdit is one of those alternative text editors that offers many features for programmers or web designers. This advanced text editor is very small in file size, but is very Read More …
DocPad is a free text editor for Windows. It comes with many advanced features is certainly much better than the plain old Windows Notepad. The most exciting feature of DocPad is its ability to use skins and make it look very pleasing to the eyes. You can use it for editing TXT files, for editing Read More …
Notepad++ is a versatile text editor with many features such as syntax-highlighting for many programming languages. This open-source editor is an excellent Windows Notepad replacement and has become the first choice of many coders whether it is web development or system programming. Many of the Windows users who have been using Notepad++ for years just Read More …
If you want a very simple text editor in Windows, then you already have Windows Notepad at your finger tips. You can launch Notepad from its shortcut in the Start menu or by launching “notepad.exe” manually using the Run dialog. But if you want a little more than what is provided by Windows Notepad, then Read More …
PSPad is a very useful text editor and code editor for all sorts programming languages. I first started using it for coding PHP scripts many many years ago and have been using it for editing the web related files such as stylesheets, HTML documents and so on. But it is not limited to editing website Read More …
For many years, Windows users were satisfied with the basic text editor called Windows Notepad. But the advanced users soon grew out of Notepad and started using advanced editors like Notepad++. If you are looking for an alternative to Notepad++ then PilotEdit Lite would make a good candidate. PilotEdit Lite is the free version of Read More …
AkelPad is a small text editor that can replace the inbuilt Windows Notepad. It offers the simple editor interface just like Windows Notepad, but you can also switch it to a multi-window interface mode as well as pseudo multi-window interface. The multi window interface looks just like Notepad++ while the pseudo multi-window interface allows you Read More …
Back in the day when students were researching books, magazines, journals and manuscripts for their final thesis, they usually ended up with tons of photocopies, books, and hand-written notes on their table. But fast forward to modern times, students can manage everything on their laptop but still they end up having scanned pages, PDF files, Read More …
UniRed is an open-source text editor for Windows that supports all types of unicode characters (hence the name UniRed). The installer package comes with two languages English and Russian with the latter selected as default. After the installation, when you launch UniRed, it will use the Russian language for all of the interface. You can Read More …