Ian Scott

To edit HTML- and CSS-code you only need a simple plaintext-editor — the rest depends on your skills and your creativity. However, to make your life a little bit easier, you can use some more comfortable source-code editors with advanced editing features. These features can effectively support you during coding, debugging and testing. Powerful modern editors provide developers with syntax highlighting, diff, macros, plugins, code-snippets, preview-option and an integrated FTP-management tool. Some editors go even further and offer a complete integrated development environment with numerous features and functions.

In the list below we present an overview of 35 established or rather unknown — but useful source code-editors; you’ll probably find ‘usual suspects’ — your favourite editor or the editor you’ve once been working with. But you’ll also find some rather unknown alternatives which are definitely worth considering when choosing an optimal source code editor.

Some of the ‘ancient’ text-editors such as EMacs or Vi are still alive and have achieved a remarkable level of quality over years. We’ve presented them below proving that sometimes it is really better to consider preferring a rather old editor to a ‘fresh’ one. The position of the editors in the list is rather random and doesn’t necessarily correspond to our personal evaluation of the editors. Please notice: even although this overview presents quite many editors, it doesn’t mention all of them.

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Todd Cochrane is the CEO of Raw Voice, a longtime podcaster at Geek News Central and helps connect podcasters with advertisers via his Blubrry podcast network.

He’s also known for having strong opinions, on topics ranging from the PodShow/Mevio name change to the quality of podcasters’ RSS feeds.

I asked Todd about his perspective on user-generated content and the state of podcasting:

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SIMable May Be Easiest Way to Unlock 3G GSM Phones [Cellphones]: “

A company called SIMable has produced a little chip that they call the ‘10-second solution’ for unlocking carrier-tethered GSM handsets. The gimmick is that, instead of unlocking the phone itself—and risking invalidation of your warranty— the chip works on the SIM card, provided you punch a hole in the SIM.

Yes, I said ‘punch a hole.’ The SIMable card lies flat against the SIM, and you first have to perform the following surgical procedure. At least the hole-puncher comes free with the £16.99 chip:

For certain 3G phones including the 8GB Nokia N95, Nokia E51, Sony Ericsson W200 and others to maintain ‘full 3G functionality,’ you will have to make an addition cut to the card itself:


It’s not clear if SIMable is shipping to the US, though there’s no reason to believe it wouldn’t work here. There’s also no mention of Apple’s iPhone on the site, although the Inquirer mentions it in the first paragraph of their own writeup. Hopefully SIMable is just getting around to that, after testing on 70 or so other, more popular phones.

Update: Corrections were made to the post following some clarifying comments (thanks!). As far as this being a copy of other products, that may very well be the case, although SIMable maintains that it is not:

NOTE - SIMable is not linked in any way to other similar products and enables full 3G functionality. We include a free customised cutting press ruling out any messing around with scissors.

[SIMable via The Inquirer]

(Via Gizmodo.)

The Belkin GoStudio is a portable podcasting studio designed to let you capture high-quality audio recordings on-the-go and then publish directly to iTunes when docked.

Features:

• Dock lets you record directly to your iPod
• Built-in microphone
• Built-in speaker for playback
• Inputs: Dual XLR,  1/4 in
• Battery powered
• Recording meter
• Gain control and a compressor/limiter

The Belkin GoStudio is expected to be available this summer.

(Via Podcasting News.)

On May 6, 1998 Apple announced the iMac. A new concept in computers, the all-in-one, sexy, translucent “bondi blue” iMac involved some very controversial design decisions that changed computing. Photographer Dave Ward teams up with model Dana for a photo-tribute to the ten-year-old iMac.

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Who Kicks More Ass: Batman or Iron Man?: “Batman is darker, has a tortured soul, rubber pants, and all those sexuality issues with Robin, but come on, does he have a stripper pole in his private plane? Of course not. And what about all the rest? Can he make his own gadgets without having to go run for help to daddy’s company? Can he let girls do their make-up while they look at his…”

(Via digg.)

Since starting to use Twitter more regularly I’ve been asked by quite a few readers for tips on how to grow the numbers of Twitter Followers. Today I’m going to give a few tips on how I’ve grown my own Twitter Follower numbers up over 5500 in the last few months:

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A source tells us that ’someone who designed part of the iPhone UI, who generally has access to new hardware locked down in a room to play with, ‘ told him that the new iPhone will run on faster 3G networks, as expected; feature new, improved speakers on the bottom; and an improved camera. It will hit stores June 12. Our source warns us: ‘The person has mixed details before.’ Our guy puts his friend’s trustworthiness at an 8 out of 10.

To us, the details seem obvious. New Macs always have better speakers and better cameras, don’t they? But perhaps the rumor’s very obviousness lends it more credibility. You have exactly 37 days to discuss, oooh and ahhh about it. (Photo by Andrew*)

(Via Valleywag.)

It looks like Verizon isn’t taking those 700MHz spectrum open access rules very seriously, and a certain competing bidder isn’t real happy. In a petition filed with the FCC by Google, the company alleges that Verizon is willfully ignoring the ‘plain meaning of the [open access] rule’ by suggesting it will allow one type of access for users who use Verizon-approved devices, and another for those using third-party units. According to the document, ‘Verizon’s position would completely reverse the meaning of the rule such that the open access condition would apply to none of Verizon’s customers, and thereby render the condition a nullity.’ The search giant is calling for the FCC to block Verizon’s $4.7 billion bid on the spectrum unless the company agrees to comply with the previously-decided open access rules. Since this isn’t the first inkling we’ve had that Verizon wasn’t down with open access, we’re not surprised, but it looks like Google has a little more fight left in them — and that could make all the difference. [Warning: PDF read link]

(Via Engadget.)

Windows only: Instead of dropping cash on a new stick of RAM for that old computer, go grab a free license for the normally $20 memory manager TweakRAM—today only. TweakRAM speeds up your machine by optimizing Windows memory management, and when your computer slows to a crawl, you can use TweakRAM to manually free up memory. The developers say:

TweakRAM defragments your computer’s memory, increasing the efficiency of your CPU and Motherboard caches, recovers memory leaks from poorly behaved applications, flushes unused libraries temporarily out to disk and so on. By all this optimization tricks your favorite applications and games will run faster and efficiently even on old computers.

TweakRAM did in fact free up memory on my Windows PC, according to its own report, though I wasn’t able to test it in a real-world, total PC slowdown situation. The Giveaway of the Day web site is featuring TweakRAM today only, which means you’ve got about 12 hours or so to head over there, download, and install the free activation version. Otherwise, TweakRAM is available as a free trial, and costs $20 for a personal license, for Windows users only.

(Via Lifehacker.)