Larry Mahony

Useful tools - XYplorer and Notepad++

October 26th, 2007

I’ve come across two very useful and powerful tools recently. One is a replacement for Windows Explorer and the other is a Text editor that doubles as a replacement for Windows Notepad.

Xyplorer is a very powerful alternative to Windows Explorer. I had enough of Explorer recently with crashing and hanging and general lack of power and I’ve switched to this new tool. It costs €17.50 for a license or €35 for a lifetime license but you can evaluate it for free for 30 days and from what I’ve seen so far I’ll definitely be purchasing it. One of the most obviously useful features is that it lets you create tabs so you can view multiple folders in one window. It’s also got very detailed file managment features.

Notepad++ is a free Windows text editor that has very quickly become my editor of choice. It can install itself as a replacement for the basic Notepad which is handy, it’s very fast and it comes pre packed with support for loads of programming languages. I’ve been using it for a lot of PHP editing lately when I can’t be bothered waiting for Eclipse to start up or churn through it’s annoyingly slow procedures.

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