Two Nice Text Utils

After having a lengthy discussion with Sunny yesterday, I decided to put in some new stuff to my blog. Here are two good utilities that I found on the net.

NotePad2
The original Notepad shipped with Windows is probably the handiest program of all times, small, fast, without frills! Notepad2 tries to follow this principle, it's a small, fast and free text editor with syntax highlighting for HTML and other common languages.


You can get it from here: http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

Steganos LockNote
A really simple text editor that encrypts all your valuable information using the latest AES256 bit encryption. It is very easy to use... just type out or drag-n-drop whatever text you want and provide a password. That's it. No saving files, opening files.

Get it from here: http://www.steganos.com/?content=locknote&language=en

Ext2 Installable File System For Windows

Phew!!!... Finally... The one thing that I was looking for.

The "Ext2 Installable File System for Windows" provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access).


It installs a pure kernel mode file system driver Ext2fs.sys, which actually extends the Windows NT/2000/XP operating system to include the Ext2 file system. Since it is executed on the same software layer at the Windows NT operating system core like all of the native file system drivers of Windows (for instance NTFS, FASTFAT, or CDFS for Joliet/ISO CD-ROMs), all applications can access directly to Ext2 volumes.

Download it from here: http://www.fs-driver.org/download.html

GPS Nailed

Rakon, a 39-year-old New Zealand-based company, has developed the world’s smallest GPS receiver. Claimed to be as tiny as the size of a baby’s fingernail, the GPS receiver chip is small enough to be fitted into devices such as watches and cellphones.


Brent Robinson, Rakon’s Managing Director, also mentioned that the GPS receiver will have sensitivity good enough to pick up weak signals, perfect for urban environments with high interference.

Bluetooth Remote Control

Bluetooth Remote Control is a true universal remote control. It can be used to change songs that are currently being played on Itunes or Media Player, browse for artists, albums, change volume and much more...

It allows the user to modify the current behaviour as well as add support for new applications. You can add support by writing Java or VB scripts, defining key maps and file actions. With key maps the user can very easy and fast define application actions and link them to any buttons on the mobile phone.

Check it out here: http://www.bluetoothshareware.com/