BabelPad: Feature Rich, Unicode And Freeware Text Editor

BabelPad (Version: 6.2.0.3) is a text editor or word processor that comes with a lot features, especially if Unicode, fonts or foreign languages are concerned. BabelPad supports rendering to make different language display properly, in particular it uses Microsoft’s Uniscribe services. It is made to ease rendering of different fonts, simplified and traditional Chinese for… Continue reading BabelPad: Feature Rich, Unicode And Freeware Text Editor

NoteItDown: Simple Notepad Alternative

NoteItDown (Version: 1.2 as of this post) is a no-install, portable freeware Notepad alternative. Its features are basic and it is lightweight. It has the .rtf, rich text features such as changing text and (text and note) background color, adding or removing indent, aligning text and changing fonts. Notes are saved in a tree structure… Continue reading NoteItDown: Simple Notepad Alternative

Notepad Enhanced: Interesting Notepad Alternative

Notepad Enhanced is a text editor, it does not have many outstanding features as it basically aims to be a better version of Windows’ own notepad. It supports file associations but that can be done within Windows as well. The main reason for it to be called ‘enhanced’ is its tabbed interface. Notepad Enhanced does… Continue reading Notepad Enhanced: Interesting Notepad Alternative

Freeware Shorts: DocPad

DocPad (Version:10.0 as of this post) is a text editor and an enhanced alternative to Notepad. Beside the typical plain text editing it offers the following and more. Adding or removing indentations. Bookmarking specific lines. Jumping to a specific line. Removing extra spaces. Converting case. Converting between formats like Base-64, UTF-7 and others. Dragging and… Continue reading Freeware Shorts: DocPad

AH Note: Free And Simple Notepad Alternative

AH Note is a young entry in the notepad alternative universe. AH Note’s capabilities are all visible via its icons around the program interface. Its features, those not common to all simple notepad alternatives are listed below. Copy options to copy the current file name and path. Indent selected text by 1 column increments. Add… Continue reading AH Note: Free And Simple Notepad Alternative

Notepad X: Open Source Notepad Alternative

Notepad X is described by its author as Notepad X is an open source text editor, with a lot of customization options created to help users managing text documents, featuring tab navigation Notepad X stands at 1.8MB including its plug-ins and icons. It is a simple no frills tabbed Notepad alternative with the usual shortcuts… Continue reading Notepad X: Open Source Notepad Alternative