I’ve used the vi text editor for 13 years now. Under Windows, I’ve used vi clones in several flavors:
The now-defunct shareware editor “Lemmy” which I’d licensed
The port of Elvis to Windows
and finally, when I’ve been able to tolerate it for very long, Vim
I’ve always been ecstatic that Vim exists. I’m more ecstatic lately [...]
OneLook’s reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word.
Check out the example’s at OneLook’s reverse dictionary page to see the useful stuff you can do there [...]
I’ve poked around at most of the “Best Programmer Font” lists on the net over the last year or two and have been pretty disappointed with the results. Quite a few of the top picks are non-scalable bitmap fonts that are painful to look at. When Microsoft released the new fonts (or some [...]
On any given week I have several bookmarks which will likely have a short lifetime: Forum threads that will likely run their course in a week or two, eBay auctions that will be over in a few days, etc. I’ve found a decent way to handle these bookmarks with Firefox and figured I’d [...]
Amaznode is a visualization of products similar to your search query. I’ve found it much more useful than Amazon’s offerings for exploring products or topics similar to the one I am interested in. Give it a minute to populate itself once you enter a search term. I tried “forced induction” this morning [...]
Ages ago I used the twm window manager under UNIX/X11 and loved its DontMoveOff setting which disallowed windows from being moved (even partially) off of the visible desktop. It allowed me to quickly drag windows to corners or edges of my desktop and align them cleanly.
I have been wanting a utility to allow this [...]
