Very handy programmers' editor (and even a great replacement for the built-in Windows Notepad): syntax highlighting for many file formats (HTML, PHP, C++, Fortran, Java, Perl, Python and much more - 15 languages altogether), project management, macros, code templates, help invokation for the currently used language (ofcourse ConText itself does not contains these help files), capturing console output. The program can be also set up to use 'parsing rules' to process the compiler output - thus helps to find the position of the bugs! Small but great features follow: the program recognizes file changes (modification, deletion), can handle unlimited number of files together (and a file can heave even 4096 characters in a single line), supports CR+LF / LF / CR text formats, support blocks selection, finds matching brackets with a hotkey, etc.! As you can see, it's a very promising text-editor which is under continuous development! Code browser, file comparing features are also planned, and I hope, there'll be a lot more ;)

A great visual file-compare tool which detects differences between two text files and displays them using different colors. You can toggle between files or display them together, or open any of the files with the configurable texteditor, and in the options screen you can define the differences to ignore (leading/trailing/all white spaces or change in amount of white spaces, case sensitivity) and the way to display or not to display them (colors, text editor, detection of file changes while comparing them). Though the task sounds easy, having this tool can save you a lot of time when comparing files - and far better than using a command-line tool! But you don't have to miss that functionality, it's already built in! ExamDiff can save a Unix Diff-compatible output file ;)

A great multiplatform (Windows, Linux, etc.) office software package with professional text editor, spreadsheet, drawing, html-editor, presentation applications! It has the best, near perfect Microsoft Office file format-compatibility that's possible for a non-Microsoft application - both for loading or saving your documents. OpenOffice also introduces it's own, XML-based file-formats - it means, that your documents are stored in the simplest and easiest standardized format, which can also be readable by any other XML-capable application! OpenOffice has a very wide range of features while it takes much less space than the Microsoft products do (can be downloaded in a 50MB zip file). The developer community at www.openoffice.org are working hard to create the best desktop office application, and anyone can support it! There are new builds released continuously, by the time of writing this the newest build is 641d, and the next one is going to be the final 1.0 version. A real must-to-have stuff!

PDFCreator is a free tool to create PDFs easily from nearly any application. With the PDFCreator Printer driver you turn any program into a PDF-machine: just press the Print button of the application (Word, Excel, Internet Explorer, Opera, or anything else), and PDFCreator creates you a PDF file for free! Features:

• Support for PDF versions 1.2 - 1.3 - 1.4 (Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 - 4.0 - 5.0)
• Auto-save option for mass conversion
• Detailed PDF and image compression and storing settings
• Own UI helps converting PS files without the need for other programs
• Settings for automatic naming of files
• Based on the GhostScript engine
• Multilingual interface (with PDFCreator's translation helper tool you can create own language files)

An outstanding visual text file differencing and merging tool for Win32 platforms. It is highly useful for determing what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions. Features:

• Visual differencing of text files
• Syntax highlighting
• Diff a single file, or entire directories
• File filters in directory diff
• Merge differences
• Directory recursion
• Integrated editor (with multi-level undo/redo)
• Find & Replace
• Drag & Drop support
• Option for integration with Windows Explorer
• Rudimentary Visual SourceSafe and Rational ClearCase integration
• Handles DOS, UNIX and MAC text file formats
• Localizable interface via resource DLL
• HTML-based User's Guide