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This Notepad2 Mod Sports Code Folding, Word Auto-Complete & More

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Usually when we talk about text editing or word processing apps, we often get a mixed bag of opinions from people. Some like minimalistic, Notepad-like utilities that provide distraction free editing, while others favor apps that come packed with a horde of features and options. If you’re a programmer or a web developer, you probably already have your own favorite text editor. Though in terms of choice, there are a bunch of text editing tools available for Windows on the internet, both free and paid. Notepad2-mod is a Windows app inspired by Notepad2, which itself builds upon the minimalism of Notepad while adding certain useful features from other, more advanced text editors. The application provides a full-featured text editing workspace optimized for writing code, whether you require some basic HTML editing or do some advance coding with syntax highlighting. The application has a ton of advance features that you won’t find in Notepad, and many that aren't there in Notepad2. Read More

Create & Save Online Code Snippets With Tagging Support [Web]

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SnipSave is a simple yet useful web application that can be used to create code snippets, which can be saved and used in the future for various projects or purposes. These code snippets let you save time and can be especially useful when you have to use the same code for numerous projects. The app allows easy tracking, storage and management for all types of codes. SnipSave lets you tag your code snippets and enter a title for each one. SnipSave allows you to search for code by entering queries in a search box displayed at the top of the page. While you can save code in lots of ways, SnipSave will let you edit the code and save the changes you make to it. The app requires a simple sign up and has an easy-to-use interface. Read More

Search Code Snippets, Graphics, Website Templates & More With Artist Maker

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Having problems searching through multiple sites for a particular image, video, code or a template? With Artist Market, the free and portable Windows and Linux application, you can easily search for the artistic object of your desire without having to manually go through a long process of searching multiple sites. Whether it’s background images, icons, videos, Java or PHP scripts, Wordpress templates or a flash player design. Everything is just a few clicks away. Read More

Generate Up To 64-Color RGB & HEX Palettes From Any Image [Chrome]

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For web designers, one of the most daunting tasks is coming up with a color scheme from scratch. In this regard, other well-developed websites and apps can prove to be a great source of inspiration. Then there may be times when you'd just want to locate the exact value for a particular shade? Palette For Chrome is an extension that lets you create as many as sixty four color palettes from an image that you like. You can then use the RGB or Hexadecimal values for your website design. The extension adds a Palette For Chrome option to the right-click context menu, which contain further sub-options in the form of Create 16-color palette, Create 24-color palette and Create 32-color palette. You will also find a Create custom palette option in the menu, which lets you move a slider to adjust the number of colors you want in your output. Read More

DetoClip: Extract Source Code & Plain Text From Web Content In Clipboard

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DetoClip is a multi-purpose clipboard manager for Windows that supports a wide range of file types, including TXT, RTF, HTML, BMP etc., allowing you to hold as many clipboard items in its stack as you want. The application is geared towards web developers who deal with dozens of code files, and copy code structures from one file to another. It provides switchable preview between plain text, formatted text and source code for text you copy from web pages, letting you quickly copy the HTML code of selected text to application development IDE. Unlike other clipboard managers, it allows you to edit the clipboard items, making it easy to create customized clipboard items which can then be pasted into required applications. Read More

Plastiliq PixelPicker: View Color Codes Of Desktop Items In 10 Formats

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Picking the right color for the right job can do wonders for your presentation. Using the right or wrong colors - say, for your website - can make or break the mood of the visitor to keep browsing through your page or switch to another one. Some days ago, we covered ColorToy, an application that allows you to view color values in multiple formats. The downside of that application was that it only allows you to select a color and view its RGB, HEX, Decimal etc, values, but it did not let you view the color values of an image or desktop. For images, you can use Pictures to Color and Color Finder, but if you want to view the color codes of items on your desktop, give Plastiliq PixelPicker a try. Keep reading to find out more. Read More

WebEdit: Use Text Expansion & Integrate Code Snippets Into Notepad++

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Notepad++ is a light-weight, yet powerful application development IDE that supports a great number of native and third-party plugins to speed up the application development process. If you are a web developer, and looking for a way to create text expansion functions and code templates in order to quickly use them in code files, WebEdit is just what you probably need. It’s small Notepad++ extension that includes all commonly used code templates with an option to create new code templates and edit existing ones. The extension is highly customizable in terms of configuring the code completion and template settings; it saves the settings and code templates in a ‘WebEdit.ini’ file, allowing you to share it with other Notepad++ users. Unlike other code completion and template collection managers, it has the ability to send the code templates to Notepad++ toolbar, so that you can write specified code template with a click. Read More

Dragbox: Drag & Share Source Code Without Signing Up [Web]

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Dragbox, a simple web application, allows you to share source code with others in only a few easy steps. All you need to do is simply drag and drop the code files into the provided container. As you drop these files, a link will be generated, which can then be shared with others. Your target recipients can not only view the code, but also manipulate it. Dragbox is completely free, and only requires a log in with your Facebook account. Once you’re logged in, code files with a maximum size of up to 5MB can easily be shared. Read More

Dash: Create A Code Snippet Library For Frequently Used Code [Mac]

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A programmers job isn’t easy; writing lines and lines of code, and sometimes staring at the same bit of code for days, trying to find just what’s messing up an otherwise perfectly executable program. Dash is a Mac app that might make life for programmers somewhat easier. If you often have to code in different languages, and find it annoying to write or re-write your frequently used code snippets, this app just might be the thing. It allows you to save snippets of code, sorted by programming language, and searchable not just by their title, but also by content. This makes it easy to quickly copy a code template, or to modify an existing one. Read More

Highlight: Convert Source Code Into Formatted, Syntax Highlighted Text

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Highlight is a powerful source code formatter and highlighter that supports more than 150 programming languages, and provides multiple color themes to export code modules into HTML, RTF, XML, LaTeX and TeX format. Since software IDE and development platforms offer support for only a few programming languages, you can use this application to highlight and understand the syntax of any language, and share the code files with highlighted syntax with others to help them understand the programming language code structure. Apart from applying syntax highlighting, it has the ability to convert the source code into formatted text with proper & clear indentation. Highlight is an extensible application, and allows adding plugins, written in LUA framework, to extend the built-in functions, as well as add new features. Read More

Duplicate Content Allows You To Detect Duplicate Content Online [Web]

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Duplicate content on your website can hurt your website’s Google ranking, and can be a serious issue with respect to copyright violations as well. Duplicate Content is a web app that can help you detect similar content on two web pages. It is especially useful for web developers and bloggers who are interested in seeing similarity between two sites. It is a simple, online service that lets you check the extent of duplicity between two webpages by comparing the text as well as the HTML markup of both pages, and shows a comparison between the HTML, standard and smart text. You can also embed the duplicate checking code on your own website from the said web app. Details after the break. Read More

CSS Load: Create & Auto Generate CSS Code For Site Load Animations

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We’ve reviewed many CSS code generators; some that apply effects to different elements like boxes and layers or the most recent one, XEO CSS, that allow you to edit the CSS by using a visual editor and passing on coding altogether. CSS Load is yet another web application that auto generates CSS code. The code generated is meant for your site load animation. It allows you to pick site load animations from eight templates and customize its color and speed. Read More

CSS3.0 Maker – Get CSS Code For Border, Box Shadow Effects & More

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We’ve reviewed a couple of CSS code generators before like Layer Styles and the ThemeShock CSS Drop Shadow Generator. Both are excellent but limited since they generate code for a single effect only. CSS3.0 Maker is a an auto CSS code generator that generates code for border, text shadow, box shadow, outline effects and skew, scale or rotate an element. You can work on multiple CSS files (different styles in each file) by creating different files. Code is downloaded as an HTML file and CSS is added as an internal sheet. The service tells you what version of Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari and Opera the effects will render in and which mobile devices will support it. Read More

Code Jumper – Jump To Visual Studio 2010 Code Segments & Declarations

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Like previous versions, Visual Studio 2010 also has a built-in feature to bookmark segments of code through Find and Replace dialog. The Bookmark feature lets you easily navigate through significant segments of code and declarations by adding blue glyphs in left sidebar. These glyphs helps visually scan the important code modules. But what about navigating through code segments and declarations? Read More

BatchFormat – Remove Unused ‘Usings’ And Format Visual Studio Document

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Do you often find it challenging to clean code file from unnecessary statements, imported snippets, functions, etc., and also to indent code, sort or remove unused Using directives in Visual Studio document? Visual Studio, just like many other software development IDEs, doesn’t provide features to clean the code file from such superfluous content, which makes it hard to not only dry run the code but visually scanning the important code modules present in document a tiresome task as well. What you probably need is a plugin which can automate the process of formatting documents without requiring you to find code format irregularities. BatchFormat is Visual Studio 2010 add-in to format document by removing and sorting different elements of any code file in current solution. Read More

Snippets Plugin For Notepad++ Adds Code Snippets In Source Code Files

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Using off-the-shelf components is one of the best methods of applying agile software development technique on application development projects. Coding application modules from the scratch is not recommended when you have access to modules which perform somewhat similar functions that you want in your application. Code snippets boosts the application development in plentiful of ways; you can create code snippets which perform some basic functions, so they can be easily imported to required modules of applications to include the required functionality. If you use Notepad++ to create and edit source files of your application/web development projects, Snippets may help you quickly insert most commonly used code snippets. Read More

Favorite Documents – Bookmark Visual Studio Code Files & Organize Them

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If you’re working on multiple Visual Studio projects, you must be looking for a way to quickly access most frequently used code files of each project without having to close current project. Since Visual Studio  2010 doesn’t offer an option to keep a list of frequently used code files handy, you have to manually open code files to quickly switch between them. How about an add-in which lets you open selected code files and other Visual Studio documents on the fly without having to switch between projects manually? Favorite Documents is an add-in for Visual Studio 2010 which is written to quickly open individual Visual Studio documents and also to access specified files in groups. Read More

Create, Debug, And Run C# Scripts With CSDirect

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It can be quite a hassle to test, debug, and run C # scripts in Visual Studio, as sometimes it takes too much time to open project and test individual scripts. To quickly compile C# scripts without having to open Visual Studio or define Import and references lists, you can use previously featured standalone application, called FastSharp which lets you compile and run C# code along with VB and F# as well. However, the downside of application is that it doesn’t support syntax highlighting and code auto-completion features, plus you can’t gain access to your custom libraries. Read More

Chop Makes Code Reviewing Easier For Developers

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Code reviewing can be an act of simple courtesy from one developer to another or it can turn in to an endless thread of criticisms aimed at proving one’s prowess in developing. Regardless of what intentions lie behind one developer reviewing another developer’s code, there are few easy and well structured ways of doing it. Chop is a web service that lets you share code with anyone and post comments to different parts of it. Anyone you choose to share the code with using Chop can then add further comments to yours and help you fix/review it.

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Visually Compare Code & Text With Online File Comparison App ‘DiffNow’

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Comparing text or code isn’t something that the average person has to do but for developers or programmers who are often plagued with this task, it’s nothing short of a nightmare especially if you don’t have an effective tool to help you do the job. DiffNow is an online app that lets you compare text, code (HTML, Python Unicode), PDF documents, binary files and Zip archives. The app interface is divided in to two panels that scroll simultaneously as you scroll up or down making it easier to compare code line by line. The app also detects the differences in text/ code and highlights it accordingly. Read More