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The contest is for an iPod Nano from the band 16 Frames who is releasing their rock album Where It Ends today,  March 24th. In celebration of the release they are giving away a decked out Nano with the album already on it and the band’s logo engraved on the back of it. All you have to do is follow the link at the bottom and sign up. Even if you don’t like the band, it’s a free iPod and it doesn’t get much better than that.

I like the Nano for it’s size but not the amount of memory it has. I need something a bit beefier, but I hear it has some improvements over it’s square predecessor, and it looks so much cooler and is available in more colors this time around.

Enter For  A Chance To Win An iPod Nano From 16 Frames.

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16 Frames iPod Nano Give Away

Take text editors for instance. A text editor is a very basic software and there has been such evolution in them. Line editors, text editors, GUI editors,… and with various advanced features.

ed is the GNU line editor. cat used to concatenate files can be seen as an editor as well.

Joe, Pico and Nano are screen editors with more features than the plain line editors. They allow one to jump to specified line and column numbers, search and replace strings, and allow quick, dirty editing.

Vim (Vi Improved) and Emacs are two legendary editors, the followers of each of which inadvertently take part in the Editor War sometimes without even the knowledge that they are part of a rivalry larger than themselves. While diehard fans of Vim and Emacs claim that their editors are the most advanced and convenient, they are both capable of keeping new users at bay thanks to their apparent complexity which is supposed to contribute to their simplicity. Both of them are screen editors which are used by programmers to write programs in a number of languages. Gvim and Xemacs are the GUI counterparts of the editors. One thing I have noticed is that users of either software need a cheat sheet that has various key combinations that can be used in their daily usage. Let this not daunt you from using these, because they really are worth the struggle. You can get started with Vim and Emacs using tutorials and they are plenty of them.

NEdit, short for Nice Editor, is a GUI text editor.

In case you already use a text editor that you are comfortable with, you can continue to use it from command line in Cygwin itself. Add your text editor with a custom alias in your .profile:

alias editor=”/c/\”Program Files/Editors & Viewers\”/Notepad++/notepad++.exe”

I am a Notepad++ fan and find it very resourceful. I have a feeling that it is inspired from Vim while keeping user-friendliness in mind.

For a greater choice than above, check out this comparison of text editors.

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Many Cygwin Text Editors