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Editor: Programmer

emacs
(Freeware)
OS: Windows, DOS, AIX 4.3.3 and higher, FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, Mac-OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, SunOS, Ultrix
Languages:
Description: description?
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html
Download v21.3 (2003-03-24)
(desc. rev.: x)

Jedit
(Donationware) (open source GNU GPL)
OS: Windows, MacOS X, Linux, Unix, OS/2 or any other OS, requires Java 2 version 1.3 or 1.4
Languages: English
Description: jEdit is a full-featured programmer's text editor written in Java. It offers syntax highlighting for more than 80 languages. It also includes a rich set of keyboard commands for manipulating entire words, lines and paragraphs at a time. Notable features include savable bookmarks, column block and discontinuous selection, and "folding" display to hide levels of indented text specified by the user. Additional features include auto-indent, macros, word wrap, multiple splittable windows, unlimited undo/redo, search and replace with regular expression support, unlimited number of clipboards, UTF8/Unicode and other character coding support. jEdit is highly configurable with customizable toolbar, context menu and keyboard shortcuts. With it's extensible plugin architecture (more than 80 plugins are available), jEdit can be turned into a full-fledged IDE, with compiler, code completion, context-sensitive help, debugging visual diff, and much more.
Author: Slava Pestov Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.jedit.org/
Download (for any OS) v 4.1 (2003-02-27) (jedit41install.jar) (1.4 MB)
http://www.jedit.org/index.php?page=download
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)

PSPad
(Donationware)
OS: Windows 98/ME/NT4/2000/XP
Languages: English and many other languages
Description: Do you work with various programming environments? Do you like highlighted syntax in code? Do you need a small tool with simple controls and the capabilities of a mighty code editor? Are you looking for a tool to work with plain text? Then PSPad is for you. Features: unlimited length of edited text files; work on several documents at the same time (MDI); Save desktop session to later reopen all open files; FTP client - you can edit files directly from the web; macro recorder to record, save and load macros; search and replace in files ; text difference with color-coded differences highlighted; templates (HTML tags, scripts, code templates...); installation contains templates for HTML, PHP, Pascal, JScript, VBScript, MySQL, MS-Dos, Perl,...; syntax highlighting auto set by file type; user-defined highlighters for exotic environments; auto correction; full HEX editor; call external programs, different for each environment; external compiler with catch command output, log window, log parser for each environment for "IDE" effect; color syntax highlight printing and print preview; integrated TiDy library for formatting and checking HTML code, conversion to CSS, XML, XHTML; integrated free version of top CSS editor TopStyle Lite; export with highlight to RTF, HTML, TeX format into file or clipboard; column block select, bookmarks, line numbers, ... NOTES: Dictionaries for spell check are available as a separate download. The last program version supporting Windows 95 is PSPad 4.2.5 - available on the downloads page.
Author: Jan Fiala Company: --
Home Page:
http://pspad.com/index_en.html
Download page:
http://pspad.com/en/download.htm
Download v4.2.7 (1873) (2003-10-24) (2 MB)
http://pspad.com/files/pspad/pspad427inst_en.exe
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-02)

vim
(Requestware) (open source, custom, GPL-compatible license)
OS: Windows 3x/9x/ME/NT/2000/XP, MS-DOS, Unix, Amiga, OS/2, Macintosh
Languages: English
Description: Vim is a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. It is an improved version of the vi editor distributed with most UNIX systems.
Author: -- Company: Vim
Home Page:
http://www.vim.org/
Download page (Win 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP) v 6.2 (2003-06-01) (gvim62.exe) (4144 KB)
http://www.vim.org/download.php
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-06)

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Automation

SlickRun
(Freeware)
OS: Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Languages:
Description: SlickRun is a 32-bit floating command line utility for Windows. Occupying less than 1.5% of a 800x600 display, SlickRun gives you almost instant access to any program on your computer. SlickRun allows you to create command aliases, so C:\Program Files\Outlook Express\msimn.exe becomes Mail. Enter a web URL into SlickRun and it will launch your browser and navigate to the specified address. Jot a note, look up a definition... SlickRun does it all!
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://bayden.com/SlickRun/
(desc. rev.: x)

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Programming: Compiler

Free Pascal
(Freeware) (open source)
OS: Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP and other OS
Languages: English
Description: Free Pascal (aka FPK Pascal) is a 32 bit pascal compiler. It is available for different processors (Intel 80386 and compatibles and Motorola 680x0) and operating systems (Linux, FreeBSD, DOS, Win32, OS/2, BeOS, SunOS (Solaris), QNX and Classic Amiga). The language syntax is semantically compatible with TP 7.0 as well as most versions of Delphi (classes, rtti, exceptions, ansistrings). Free Pascal supports function overloading, operator overloading and other such features.
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.freepascal.org/
Download (Windows) v 1.0.10 (2003-07-11) (w321010.zip) (25.1 MB)
http://www.freepascal.org/sdown.html
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-05)

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Script Language

Gui4Cli
(Freeware)
OS:
Languages:
Description: Gui4Cli is a simple, freeware, event-driven language which allows you to easily create and control many types of GUIs (user interfaces, windows, dialogs etc) to use as stand alone programs or as interfaces for other programs. It is an easy scripted language with many powerfull commands and capabilities and a simple intuitive structure.
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://users.hol.gr/~dck/g4c/
(desc. rev.: x)

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VB Add-on

MZ-Tools
(Freeware)
OS:
Languages:
Description: MZ-Tools 3.0 is a freeware 'all-in-one' add-in for Visual Basic 5.0, Visual Basic 6.0 and the Visual Basic For Applications editor (provided by a VBA-enabled application such as the ones of Office 2000 and higher) which adds several features missing in the IDE. It provides a main menu, a toolbar, handy context menus or customizable shortcuts to access those features.
Author: -- Company: --
Home Page:
http://www.mztools.com
(desc. rev.: x)

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Resource Tool: Icon Extractor

IconShop
(Freeware)
OS: Windows
Languages: English
Description: IconShop is an icon librarian that offers the tools to manage ICL icon libraries. Read and write ICL icon libraries. Drag and drop files and folders from the Windows Explorer onto the IconShop window to process them. Drag and drop icons or icon images between IconShop windows. Extract icons from Windows icons, cursors, animated cursors, BMP bitmaps, GIF bitmaps, TIFF bitmaps, XPM bitmaps, resources, executables and libraries. Export icons to icon, cursor BMP or TIFF bitmap format.
Author: Peter Stuer Company: Lion Tech
Home Page:
http://users.pandora.be/liontech/Downloads.htm
Download v 1.13 (1999-06-07) (90.389 bytes)
http://users.pandora.be/liontech/IconShop.zip
Download v 1.20 Alpha Build 905 (2002-02-16) (154.131 bytes)
http://users.pandora.be/liontech/IconShop.120.Alpha.zip
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-30)

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System Tweaker

More Properties
(Freeware) (unsupported)
OS: Windows 9x/2000/NT
Languages: English
Description: More Properties helps you to change a variety of desktop options, most of which can affect the way you use your computer in small but important ways . Among the tweaks it includes are: Randomizing your wallpaper, Changing and adjusting the size of icons, and removing the "Shortcut to" prefix on new shortcuts. One feature, which lets you edit your Add/Remove Programs list, makes this free program especially valuable. NOTES: Windows 98 Compatibility: the only problem I have encountered is that the Internet Explorer desktop icon is lost, but this can easily be restored in MP's Icons/Folders tab.
Author: -- Company: Imaginary Software
Home Page:
http://www.imaginary.co.za/
Download v 2.03.0276 (1997-12-01) (351 KB)
http://www.imaginary.co.za/archive.htm
Download page v 2.03.0276 (1997-12-01) (mp20full.zip) (1.71 MB) (Full Setup, including VB run-time libraries)
http://www.imaginary.co.za/archive.htm
(desc. rev.: 2004-01-05)

TweakAll
(Freeware)
OS: Windows 98/ME/2000/XP
Languages: English
Description: TweakAll is a small program that allows you to take control over your Windows operating system. Does your Windows 95/98 system take too long to startup? Not a problem! With TweakAll you can cut boot times and give yourself some more free memory at the same time. Want to tweak your Windows 2000 or XP system to have faster, more reliable internet connections? Then do that as well!
Author: -- Company: Codeforge
Home Page:
http://www.codeforge.co.uk/
Download page: v 3 (2002-01-31) (4199 KB) (tweakall3fullsetup.exe)
http://www.codeforge.co.uk/tweakalldownload.htm
(desc. rev.: 2003-12-02)