Posts Tagged ‘freeware’

Notepad2 text editor

In: Technology & Gadgets

15 Sep 2007

Wahoo, I found Notepad2. It contains the only two features I really use ALL the time in a text editor: syntax highlighting and UNIX (grep) style regular expressions search and replace.
For those who don’t know about regular expressions search and replace, it allows you to do wacky stuff like swap words, change case, and to [...]

Best freeware

In: Technology & Gadgets

15 Sep 2007

Discovered a few I like and didn’t know about:
From Live Slick. The comments actually pointed me to a program I really like Notepad2.

Linux Slug: VOIP & Weather Station

In: Technology & Gadgets

2 Sep 2007

I wanted a silent weather server to run wviewweather on, to go with my new Davis Vantage Pro 2.

In view of the latest problems Vonage has been having (they are involved with litigation with Nortel, Sprint, Verizon and SunRocket), I decided to go somewhat farther afield to seek out an alternate solution.

To serve as both [...]

Linux installed

In: Technology & Gadgets

31 Mar 2007

Finally got my first LINUX server up-and-running for the fire department. It’s a great indication of how some distributions are much better than others. Read on to see how it progressed.

Password generator

In: Technology & Gadgets

19 Feb 2007

SuperGenPass is a neat utility was called out on TWIT (This Week in Technology). It’s a password generator that allows you to generate passwords for various websites based on a master password. Alternately, you could use the tiered system I’ve used before (1 password for secure websites, 1 password for less secure websites, 1 password [...]


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