If you’re a programmer and needs to have an environment where you can code anytime, anywhere. Now, with the technology of portability, you need not to install anything to your system but have it in your USB disk. This tool is called Notepad++ Portable, now part of the PortableApps.com Suite. It supports multiple programming languages as well.

Features:

Syntax Highlighting and Syntax Folding (C, C++, HTML, ASP, Java, Pascal, CSS and more)
User Defined Syntax Highlighting
Auto-completion
Multi-Document
Regular Expression Search/Replace supported
Full Drag ‘N’ Drop supported
Zoom in and zoom out
Multi-Language environment supported
Brace and Indent guideline Highlighting
Macro recording and playback

Notepad++ Portable is by http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm
[ via PortableApps.com ]

ASUS Eee PC is now becoming more popular and having one is in my wish lists this 2008. My fellow b5media tech blogger, Clair, posted a couple of entries on her blog – Xubuntu for the EEE PC and Why are people still installing Windows on the EEE PC? It was even the most wanted Christmas gift in America.
Anyway, for us open source lovers, ASUS Eee PC is our friend. Pre-installed with Linux OS, it has lots of bundled software to it making it small but productive. Although some buyers still install Windows OS with it. OpenOffice.org is part of …read more

Quickoffice, the global leader in mobile office software, recently released its new office suite version – Quickoffice Premier 5.0 for S60 editions. This enables you to experience Microsoft®  Office 2007 on your mobile phones specifically Smartphones.
This software comprises three great applications: Word Processing, Excel Spreadsheet, and Powerpoint Presentation capabilities.
 “Symbian smartphone owners urgently need user-friendly software to support Office 2007 files, as access to these …read more

Microsoft released a new update for its Office Mobile 6.1, which targets file compatibility for Office 2007 file formats which basically Open XML-based. This feature is said to reduce file size, improve security and reliability, and more portable. According to the download page:
To allow Windows Mobile users to work with Office documents created in the Open XML formats, Microsoft has developed an upgrade for Word Mobile, Excel Mobile, and PowerPoint Mobile applications. This upgrade to the Office Mobile applications allows viewing and editing of Word documents and Excel workbooks and viewing of PowerPoint slideshows created by using Microsoft Office 2007.

Other …read more

Web Worker Daily has a nice write up that brings to light many ways to use your handled or PDA productively.

hese days, many web workers are upgrading to more powerful handheld mobile devices — PDA, smartphone, Internet tablet, ultra-mobile PC — and they never seem to stop fiddling with them. From checking email to reading RSS feeds to doing IM or Twitter, the mobile worker is always connected.
But not always productive.
Despite the popular thinking that being always connected and always doing email makes you more productive, the truth is that productivity drops if you allow yourself to be …read more