Portable Free Apps : Use it And Enjoy it

MadEdit can edit files in Text/Column/Hex modes, and supports many useful functions, e.g. SyntaxHighlightings, WordWrap, Encodings.

Features:
* MadEdit can run under Linux, FreeBSD and MS-Windows platforms.
* Edits files in Text, Column and Hex modes.
* In Hex-Mode, MadEdit can open large files which size is up to 32GB (INT_MAX*16).
* Users can change the encoding of files at runtime like Web-Browsers.
* Supports many encodings, e.g. Unicode(UTF-8, UTF-16/32 with Little or Big Endian), Big5, GBK and S-JIS etc.
* Supports Unicode CJK Ext-B.
* If users input a character that is not supported by current encoding, this character will be converted to U+XXXX. Unicode format.
* Regular Expression search & replace (by using Boost.Xpressive).
* Opens multiple files on single instance.
* Supports syntax-highlighting of many programming languages, e.g. awk, C/C++, CSS, diff/patch, D, DOS Batch Script, Flash ActionScript, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Lua, Pascal, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, UNIX Shell Script, x86 Assembly, XML, Fortran, TeX/LaTeX, Squirrel, C#, Visual Basic, ASP(VBScript), SQL, Verilog, VHDL.
* MadEdit can view ASCII-Art files under Win32 platform.

CintaNotes will be your essential assistant in the daily task of collecting numerous pieces of information, like your own thoughts and ideas, article excerpts, blog postings, famous people quotes, research data, curious facts, Wikipedia entries, you name it.

Emacs is a powerful text editor, and Emacs is often called a “programmer’s editor”.

The GNU Emacs Manual calls Emacs the extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor, but this description tells beginners little about what Emacs is capable of.

If you don’t want to pay UltraCompare or Beyond Compare, so you can try Winmerge.

WinMerge is an Open Source (GPL) visual text file differencing and merging tool for Windows. It is highly useful for determining what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.

ATPad is a simple Notepad replacement written in pure C and Windows API. Keeping simplicity of Notepad it provides many additional features, such as:

* Tabbed environment – especially useful for working with multiple files (for example, logs).
* Fully customizable editor – colors, fonts etc.
* Lines numbering – it’s hard to find these days any respectable editor which does not support this feature.
* Word wrapping – can anybody write long scripts without it?
* List of recently open documents – ATPad stores this list accordingly to MAC address, so “Recent Files” on your laptop will look different from “Recent Files” on your desktop machine! But if you run the program from removable drive and work with files on this drive, they will be always presented in list, regardless of MAC address of hosting computer.
* Keeping last session – start the work exactly from the point you’ve finished (all said above about list of recent documents is true against last sessions as well).
* Bookmarks – never lose your way.
* Displaying whitespaces – tabs, spaces, line breaks.
* Reloading documents “on-demand” – instead of reopening them.
* Outer changes tracking – stay informed when any of currently open documents has been changed out of program.
* Reloading document in specified interval – you can specify interval for recurrent document reloading.
* Sending documents via email – it’s possible to send each document, even “Untitled”, via email as attachment.
* Portability – ATPad does not require installation, it can be started from any drive (fixed or flash) and leaves no traces on host computer after finishing.