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First Look: Intype

Similar to the e Text Editor, Intype is a Windows take on the Mac-only TextMate. An early take. In fact, the software is still in the Alpha stage, having only recently materialized out of vaporware status. But it’s coming along nicely, featuring TextMate’s minimalist interface, themes, and trademark bundles and snippets.

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First Look: e Text Editor

As I said in my last post, I’ve been using my Mac more and more for web development work. When I get around to writing reviews for this site, I do that on my Mac, too, using TextMate and Markdown. Bloody good combo, in my opinion. The problem with liking an editor like TextMate, however, is that you miss having it when you’re on a different machine (or, in my case, on my main machine, which is a PC laptop). What to do? Well, I like to complain to whomever’s near enough to listen. Other’s might choose a more proactive path, perhaps buying a Mac to replace their ancient, not-quite-two-year-old Toshiba lappy with a bright and shiny Macbook Pro. Still others might go a slightly more cost-effective route, visiting Google and typing in “TextMate for Windows.”

And so we have e Text Editor.

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First Look: Microsoft Expression Web Designer

I never had the (dis)pleasure of using MS FrontPage (FP) in any of its incarnations, though I have had to maintain sites built in FP — unpleasant to say the least. So, I was a little wary as I downloaded Beta 1 of Microsoft’s newest entry into website creation: Expression Web Designer. But, don’t be fooled — this is no FrontPage.

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First Look: Aptana 0.3

I just spent 2 1/2 hours downloading the 44MB Aptana public beta. The website describes Aptana thus:

Aptana is a robust, JavaScript-focused IDE for building dynamic web applications. Highlights include the following features:

• Code Assist on JavaScript, HTML, and CSS languages, including your own JavaScript functions
• Outliner that gives a snapshot view of your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code structure
• Error and warning notification for your code
• Support for Aptana UI customization and extensions
• Cross-platform support
• Free and open source. (Source available soon)

While it definitely wouldn’t be fair to review a product still in beta, I wanted to share some of my initial impressions.

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