MetroTextual Is A Minimal, Elegant Text Editor With Syntax Highlighting

If you’re a programmer, web developer or even a casual user looking for a simple and minimal text editor that keeps the UI out of your way while writing code or plain text documents, Metrotextual is worth giving a shot. This easy-to-use text editor lets you do all your coding in an aesthetically pleasing interface that is bound to make you ditch notepad for good. While it is not exactly a very feature-rich program, that’s exactly what it boasts; lightning fast performance over number of options and no compromise on minimalism. In addition to being a basic text editor, the application can come really handy for software developers due its Scintilla-powered syntax highlighting for several programming, markup, scripting and database query languages. Read More

Codeanywhere For Android Is A Code Editor With Built-In FTP Client

Codeanywhere for Android is the mobile client for the free, multi-platform code editing web service by the same name. The app syncs with your codeanywhere account and like the web service, allows you to add multiple FTP or SFTP servers, browse through and edit the added servers’ files and folders, download and edit any HTML, PHP, Javascript, CSS and XML files on the go. Simple, fast and easy to use, the app is particularly useful for users who own a website and consistently find the need to make quick changes to it while away from their computers. While we may elaborate on the app's feature set past the break, let's first look at what the official Codeanywhere Android client has on offer. The app's long list of features comprises multi-platform support, an integrated FTP client, dedicated editors for PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript & XML, compete (S)FTP support, built-in file editor, search & replace, support for photos & videos, file permission management, support for SSL and lots more. Read More

Snippely Brings Notes And Code Organization Under One Window

If you’re in the habit of storing its and bits of text, quick notes, memos etc all over your hard-disk in small text files, with weird filenames like asdf.txt, abc.txt, note1, note2 and so on, this tool can certainly be a lifesaver for you. Snippely is a very basic open source text and code organizational tool that stores all your quick notes and texts in one place, categorized in groups for better management. Read More

Develop And Upload Websites Online With ShiftEdit

ShiftEdit is an online browser-based IDE (Integrated Development Environment) that packages multiple features for developing web pages. It supports website development in PHP, HTML, CSS and JS (Java Script). You can create, edit, and publish web pages, access and upload files through build-in (S)FTP client, and revise previously accessed/edited pages. It comes with couple of time-saving features like, code snippets and jump to line closing brackets to bring ease in coding. Read More

HTML Coding Made Easy With Zen Coding

Zen Coding is one of the best HTML coding assistant ever created. Confusing at first and perhaps a little tricky to get around, but once you get the hang of it, nothing can beat the ease it will bring to a coder’s life. Zen Coding is basically a set of plugins that can work with a huge variety of text editors (Notepad++, Coda, Espresso, Aptana, Komodo etc, to name a few). Their specialty is to expand abbreviations into complete HTML structures, in a most intelligent, unbelievable way. Read More