13 Great Free Text Editors For Programmers & Web Developers

<p><p>Two tools that programmers and web workers tend to use most are a text editor and an email client. In today's <a href="http://www.dailygyan.com/search/label/Daily%20Feature">Daily Feature</a> column, we give you a roundup of 13 text editors that we found to be extremely useful.</p> <p>Note that all programs mentioned here are free and (most of them are) open source. And almost all programs mentioned here have quite large fan base whose favorite past time is to engage in regular <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_war">editor wars</a> (especially popular among vim and emacs followers).</p> <p><a href="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_149zw5hdcfs_b"><img height="269" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_149zw5hdcfs_b" width="490" /></a></p> <p>[<a href="http://xkcd.com/378/">xkcd</a>]</p> <p>Without further ado, we give the you 13 most popular text editors for programmers and web developers.</p> <p> </p> <h2>1. Notepad++</h2> Notepad++ is a popular free and open source text editor for Windows, often referred as Notepad on steroids. <p><a href="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_132g5vw3ght_b"><img height="368" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_132g5vw3ght_b" width="490" /></a></p> <p>It supports tabs, syntax highlighting of a gallizion programming languages, code folding, taking code printout in color, side by side text comparison, zooming in and zooming out, macro recording and playback, and many more. </p> <p>Another great advantage of using notepad++ is that it is highly extensible using plugins. If you find a feature lacking, then most probably someone else already felt similarly a wrote a plugin for that feature. The notepad++ site lists a large number of plugins from where you can download them.</p> <p><a href="http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/">Download Notepad++</a></p> <p> </p> <h2>2. Programmer's Notepad</h2> Programmer's Notepad is a light weight Notepad replacement that is aimed at programmers and web monkeys. <p><a href="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_133fw56rfc5_b"><img height="269" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_133fw56rfc5_b" width="490" /></a></p> <p>Feature include syntax highlighting of a large number of programming languages including Python, Ruby, HTML, C, C++ and Java. Go for it if you are impressed by docking toolbars, support for ctags and interactive error finding (clicking on a error takes you to the line that caused it).</p> <p><a href="http://www.pnotepad.org/">Download Programmer's Notepad</a></p> <p> </p> <h2>3. TotalEdit</h2> TotalEdit is a free for commercial and non commercial use text editor for Windows. It supports all features expected out of a programmer's text editor like syntax coloring, code folding and line numbering <p><a href="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_134d2tjhjd4_b"><img height="349" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_134d2tjhjd4_b" width="490" /></a></p> <p>Some of the features that make it stand apart from the crowd are backup and version comparison - you can compare the currently edited file with its previous version from within TotalEdit, a built-in spell checker and its fully portable mode - you can run it off a USB stick.</p> <p><a href="http://www.codertools.com/download.aspx">Download TotalEdit</a></p> <p> </p> <h2>4. Notepad2</h2> If what you want is a blaring fast text editor that starts instantly at the touch of a mouse and that gets things done as fast as possible, then Notepad2 is for you. Notepad2 is aimed at coders who need a little more oomph than the generic Notepad in Windows. <p><a href="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_135rznfhjmk_b"><img height="279" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_135rznfhjmk_b" width="490" /></a></p> <p>It supports a number of programming languages. Hit F12, select the scheme and press OK. If you wish to replace the generic Notepad with Notepad2, here are the instructions <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/omars/archive/2004/04/30/124093.aspx">for Windows XP</a> and <a href="http://www.mattberther.com/?p=828">for Windows Vista.</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html">Download Notepad2</a></p> <p> </p> <h2>5. XML Notepad 2007</h2> It is sadistic to force humans to edit XML files. But still, lot of people are unfortunate enough to do this on a regular basis especially java programmers. XML Notepad to your rescue. <p><a href="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_136f7hxgrd2_b"><img height="365" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_136f7hxgrd2_b" width="490" /></a></p> <p>XML Notepad has a simple interface with a tree view of tags on left and their values displayed on right. Use this one as it reduces the chances of human errors in generating properly validated XML files.</p> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=72d6aa49-787d-4118-ba5f-4f30fe913628&displaylang=en#Overview">Download XML Notepad 2007</a></p> <p> </p> <h2>6. ConTEXT</h2> ConTEXT is a free and recently made open source programmer's text editor. <p><a href="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_137h4sft2ft_b"></a></p> <p><a href="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_138hbvvsfg2_b"></a></p> <p><a href="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_139gs43brch_b"><img height="311" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_139gs43brch_b" width="490" /></a></p> <p>ConTEXT is very light weight, is simple to use and hardly uses any RAM. It supports a large number of programming languages like C/C++, Delphi/Pascal, Java, Java Script, Visual Basic, Perl/CGI, HTML, CSS, SQL, FoxPro, 80x86 assembler, Python, PHP, Tcl/Tk, XML, Fortran, Foxpro and InnoSetup scripts.</p> <p><a href="http://www.contexteditor.org/downloads.html">Download ConTEXT</a></p> <p> </p> <h2>7. jEdit</h2> jEdit is written in Java can can run on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. <p><a href="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_142d43jnxdj_b"><img height="368" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_142d43jnxdj_b" width="490" /></a></p> <p>jEdit is highly configurable and customizable using macros and plugins. It carries all standard and advanced features like syntax highlighting, auto indentation, file management and bookmarks. It provides keyboard shortcuts for almost anything. So go for this if you are a keyboard ninja.</p> <p><a href="http://www.jedit.org/">Download jEdit</a></p> <p> </p> <h2>8. Komodo Edit</h2> Komodo Edit is a text editor from ActiveState - a company famous for its port of Perl, Python and TCL to Windows. Komodo Edit is a free and open source text editor (or should rather be called a mini IDE). <p><a href="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_150dw455cd7_b"><img height="349" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_150dw455cd7_b" width="490" /></a></p> <p>It supports many features that one would find in IDEs like code completion and call tips. It supports CSS, HTML, JavaScript, XML, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl, RHTML, Template-Toolkit, HTML-Smarty and Django template styles. If you are coming from a Vim or Emacs background, you can also set Komodo Edit to emulate Vim or Emacs key bindings.</p> <p><a href="http://www.activestate.com/komodo_edit/">Download Komodo Edit</a></p> <p> </p> <h2>9. SourceEdit</h2> <p><a href="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_151dqkhgfxh_b"><img height="394" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_151dqkhgfxh_b" width="490" /></a></p> <p>SourceEdit will appeal more to the web developer community because of it built-in FTP manager and support for previewing the HTML code in the web browser directly from within SourceEdit. It supports languages like ASP, PHP, Java, C/C++, C#, Visual Basic, Pascal, Perl, Cold Fusion, SQL, HTML, CSS and XML. Web developers will also find its color mixer quite useful. This software is highly customizable. All keyboard shortcuts can be changed to suite your taste. All color coding for any language can be changed and SourceEdit will remember to use that color coding next time you launch a text file of that programming language.</p> <p><a href="http://www.brixoft.net/download.asp#ID1">Download SourceEdit</a></p> <p> </p> <h2>10. PSPad</h2> PSPad is another code editor that would be of interest to web developers because of its built-in FTP client. You can log in to an FTP server, browser files, edit and save them to the server all from within PSPad. <p><a href="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_144g8t6wjfh_b"><img height="349" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_144g8t6wjfh_b" width="490" /></a></p> <p>It highlights the matching closing and starting tag when you place your cursor at the middle of a tag. This one also has integrated TiDy library for formatting and checking HTML code, conversion to CSS, XML, XHTML. It also comes with a HEX editor and a diff tool.</p> <p><a href="http://www.pspad.com/en/download.php">Download PSPad</a></p> <p> </p> <h2>11. Crimson Editor</h2> Crimson Editor calls itself the professional source code editor for Windows. <p><a href="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_145fnhjh5ch_b"><img height="418" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_145fnhjh5ch_b" width="490" /></a></p> <p>It is lightning fast in loading and can run of a floppy disk. It supports syntax highlighting for HTML, C/C++, Perl, Java, Matlab and LaTeX. Full features of Crimson Editor can be found <a href="http://www.crimsoneditor.com/english/features.html">here</a> .</p> <p><a href="http://www.crimsoneditor.com/">Download Crimson Editor</a></p> <p> </p> <h2>12. VIM</h2> When it comes to text editors, there are two holy grails - vim and emacs. Both are really great text editors, but both are complex and hence there is a slightly steep learning curve that you have to climb over before using them. <p><a href="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_147fqpphddr_b"><img height="509" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_147fqpphddr_b" width="490" /></a></p> <p>Vim stands for 'vi improved' denoting that it is an improved version of the earlier used vi editor. Vim can run in a wide variety of platforms including Windows, Linux and Mac OSX. The screenshot shown above is of Graphical vim (gvim). <br />This <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_%28text_editor%29">Wikipedia page</a> would be a good starting place to know about vim. The <a href="http://www.vim.org/">official vim site</a> and the <a href="http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page">vim tips wiki</a> page are also of great help to anyone starting out with vim.</p> <p><a href="http://www.vim.org/download.php">Download Vim</a></p> <p> </p> <h2>13. Emacs</h2> Emacs like vi has a very long history dating back to the 1970s. Emacs was written by hard core programmers intended to be used by hard core programmers - the type of people who would understand stuff like "emacs is an extensible, customizable, self-documenting, real-time display editor". <p><a href="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_148hjmjzsd4_b"><img height="375" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_148hjmjzsd4_b" width="490" /></a></p> <p>The <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html">GNU Emacs home page</a>, the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/">emacs tour</a> and <a href="http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs.html">this tutorial</a> are great places to start learning emacs.</p> <p><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html#Obtaining">Download Emacs</a></p> <p> <br />Which is your favorite text editor? Know about a better text editor than these ones? Tell us in the comments.</p></p>

Two tools that programmers and web workers tend to use most are a text editor and an email client. In today's Daily Feature column, we give you a roundup of 13 text editors that we found to be extremely useful. Note that all programs mentioned here …

Expression Web SuperPreview From Microsoft Helps You Test Your Web Site In Multiple Browsers

<p><p>Web developers know the difficulty. Each change made to the backend code, HTML or CSS files needs to be tested in all popular browsers – a pretty long list containing Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari 3, Safari 4 then IE6, IE7 and IE8. </p> <p>In today’s <a href="http://www.dailygyan.com/search/label/Windows" target="_blank">Windows Gyan</a> column, we introduce you to a new and great application from Microsoft that enables you to test run your web site in all popular browser rendering engines including all versions of Internet Explorer.</p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiFtSutQnfSr9kdXz8Zst3bGvSwD6wsxYeZn_c4DZA2E2XuopEpcAD8TwFWFulEvPX3y5_cYJ-5UpFxajWmHw-P_Cju7ctKxuuT4qO-s_hEKy7HzDMfiqaepXnn2kg-uliDLZzCB9T4uI/s1600-h/superpreview1%5B3%5D.jpg"><img alt="superpreview1" border="0" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj59ZdD3Iu7Wg53kDHzJLgqGmG6mE72Ni2MTXmJv4M2mMNTXMAtUVf0gXUL0fmZB-My3rmaxmse6OMxtPT5a9xaozoi1yIq9mFyPR1eM7g9zS6zSD470K9z5pJoqlMyMgwJ570MUlOOXdU/?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; display: inline; border-right-width: 0px" title="superpreview1" width="494" /></a> </p> <p>Though ‘Expression Web SuperPreview for Internet Explorer’ is a ridiculously long name for such a cool application, this tool really kicks ass. It is a visual debugging tool that allows you to see and compare how your site will look in IE6 and compare it to how it will look in other browsers like IE7, IE8 and other popular browsers .</p> <p>You can either compare it side by side as shown below:</p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj13qLR5u6rbCleXtVXdwTKTkeCglhCa59DPUKvyHIKNtLeCTWOmJexj_9tDjbdbm6dmozGV7N3O-KvAKYTlFD2-yGpk4qBLPSmcB68XP66HufIY8G4UdUfzgEk9Cj-u2HpyEnG3Is07ag/s1600-h/superpreview2%5B3%5D.jpg"><img alt="superpreview2" border="0" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz2eO7XHTldakQFFdcWBulVPZCZfrv8klvGD88Y2WOwA_yDhOjMd-o_gWTqYbZB5UYeo85aVEN1OGjnd_45ZX5zAIQWUYThQyD6rk0N6UOrXU94dFiuOXHr6cqjGKOvEP4YT_Bs9bmyC0/?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; display: inline; border-right-width: 0px" title="superpreview2" width="494" /></a> </p> <p>or you can compare using an onion-skin overlay where you display one on top of another to get a pixel perfect idea of the differences in rendering in two browsers:</p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwbMFigf9xweUpsr21VZQzgumAIeIKkym8KI33ucBVvhA02YJ7HYkXT7_e2FyOihgjSlWHF5axWW0NdrbP6ZyG_dBpuM4TGAyFdBSkmW5kEV_xHsFIyET1KxdLjcrTLMvWyDZMtEbxRoM/s1600-h/superpreview3%5B3%5D.jpg"><img alt="superpreview3" border="0" height="357" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsPh3Y86kQeoQOYqUkgp_whVZKaXVpPsbmBzSusJlh-nKikZpqktWfbGisOgpTOwYjJzAzdiH51JnESzgrvo3bqBDn5-Xxv9jWHtIRb8TB9z04ttbgJTvEWkaM-CzeDdfTUEyFkHqkqH0/?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; display: inline; border-right-width: 0px" title="superpreview3" width="494" /></a> </p> <p>[screenshots <a href="http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090318/expression-web-superpreview-cross-browser-testing/" target="_blank">from istartedsomething blog</a>]</p> <p>The current beta build of SuperPreview allows you to compare between IE6 and the browser installed in your machine only (either IE7 or IE8). Future builds are said to have capability to render and compare with external browsers like Firefox and Google Chrome. Another feature that is rumored to be in the pipeline is remote rendering where you can compare the rendering with that of a browser running in a completely different OS, like Firefox in Linux or Safari in Mac OSX.</p><p><em>Related: </em><a href="http://www.dailygyan.com/2008/10/install-and-run-different-versions-of.html">Install and Run Different Versions of Internet Explorer Simultaneously</a></p> <p>Final version of the product is supposed to be bundled with Expression Web 3, to be released by the end of this year. Till then you can download the beta version from the Microsoft site. </p> <p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=8E6AC106-525D-45D0-84DB-DCCFF3FAE677&displaylang=en" target="_blank">Download Expression Web SuperPreview</a> | <a href="http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/6/8/568F0D28-0434-4794-B7FC-FB293BCC98FB/SuperPreview_Trial_en.exe" target="_blank">Direct download link</a> (250MB) </p> <p>[via <a href="http://www.istartedsomething.com/20090318/expression-web-superpreview-cross-browser-testing/" target="_blank">istartedsomething blog</a>]</p></p>

Web developers know the difficulty. Each change made to the backend code, HTML or CSS files needs to be tested in all popular browsers – a pretty long list containing Firefox 2, Firefox 3, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari 3, Safari 4 then IE6, IE7 and IE…

Send Your Name To Mars In Nasa's Mars Rover

<p><img id="wj4t" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_156crsvhrf3_b" style="width: 282px; height: 157px; float: left; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 1em;">Nasa is giving you a chance to take your name to Mars in their next Mars Rover expedition.<br><br>All you have to do is visit <a target="_blank" title="this page" href="http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/sendyourname/" id="d3_i">this page</a> and enter your name and country. Your name will then be stored in a microchip and placed in Mars Science Laboratory rover heading to Mars in 2011. Once you submit your name, you will get a certificate of your participation.<br><br>The <a target="_blank" title="Mars Science Laboratory" href="http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/overview/" id="gyex">Mars Science Laboratory</a> is scheduled to be launched in the fall of 2011 and will study whether the planet can support microbial life.<br><br><a title="http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/sendyourname/" target="_blank" href="http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/sendyourname/" id="ap12">http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/participate/sendyourname/</a> <br><br></p>

Nasa is giving you a chance to take your name to Mars in their next Mars Rover expedition.All you have to do is visit this page and enter your name and country. Your name will then be stored in a microchip and placed in Mars Science Laboratory rover…

ToddlerTrap - Easiest Way To Disable Mouse & Keyboard For a Short Time

<p><i>Windows only: </i><img id="dbvr" src="http://docs.google.com/File?id=dcwmstfp_154d2vjzxcq_b" style="width: 179px; height: 91px; float: left; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 1em;">If you want to disable the keyboard and mouse of your computer for some time, there is no easier way than Toddler Trap.<br><br>This tiny utility is useful when you want to clean your keyboard or mouse without shutting down the PC or when you don't want your coworkers or children messing with your computer while you are away (though we would suggest locking your computer as a better solution).<br><br>On running the ToddlerTrap you will find a window as shown here. All further key press and mouse clicks will be blocked until you close this window.<br><br>ToddlerTrap is available as an <a title="auto hot key script" href="http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/ToddlerTrap/ToddlerTrap.ahk" id="gbbn">Auto Hot Key script</a>. In case you don't have Auto Hot Key installed, <a title="here is a stand alone exe" href="http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Skrommel/ToddlerTrap/ToddlerTrap.exe" id="k92a">here is a stand alone exe</a>.<br></p>

Windows only: If you want to disable the keyboard and mouse of your computer for some time, there is no easier way than Toddler Trap.This tiny utility is useful when you want to clean your keyboard or mouse without shutting down the PC or when you do…

Firefox Gyan: How To Make Your Unread Tabs Easily Noticeable

<p><p>We often find ourselves opening a lot of tabs in Firefox using mouse wheel click on the links and then quite soon forget about the opened links. So when <a href="http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2009/03/quickly-find-unread-tabs-in-firefox/" target="_blank">Mozilla Links blog</a> posted about a method to quickly find unread tabs in Firefox, we immediately jumped at it.</p> <p>The Mozilla Links blog tells you how to change the title font in an unread tab to italics. But we found that a simple change in font didn’t quite make any difference to us. So we decided to extend that method and incrementally make minor changes and observe how much easily it caught the eyes. The results are quite outstanding.</p> <p>First, let’s discuss the original Mozilla Links method:</p> <h2>1. Change the Unread Tab Title Font to Italics.</h2> <p>Find the userChrome.css file in the chrome folder in your <a href="http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Firefox" target="_blank">Firefox profile directory</a>. If there is no userChrome.css file present in the chrome folder, copy userChrome-example.css and place in the same folder as userChrome.css.</p> <p>Now add the following line to the end of the file:</p> <p><code>#content tab:not([selected]) {font-style: italic !important;}</code></p> <p>and restart Firefox. Your change will look like this:</p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWElvokRjwxfN-eAsjYc9zgrnSvlBZKWfag5GSthTEMdaw5vZLCIN-lM9R0LhuuCw7aekF5-J5o9J2f9C3_j0jh0FDYvqrOmGiPdev-4c80WCpbE3Dsbqp5jerA5CNhycvAX0PxRz0mGU/s1600-h/1%5B8%5D.png"><img alt="1" border="0" height="94" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwzdXpHTcNvcsJJ3ozgmhsl7jVr0SVg8-ApxPvSvFvwzdR3wVfPoz_sZXcfbTTDcifRN-so_S35rP-ahedze2-shhhHydSxqa1XketgWBM_3EeUpzVyjVx8z5i7NxPS4f2hsoPOwEPw_c/?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; display: inline; border-right-width: 0px" title="1" width="494" /></a> </p> <p>Well, no much difference isn’t it? Let’s see how it will look if the title font is made bold instead of italics.</p> <p> </p> <h2>2. Make the Unread Tab Title Font Bold</h2> <p>Edit the above line and make it:</p> <p><code>#content tab:not([selected]) {font-weight: bold !important;}</code></p> <p><code>This is how it’s going to look:</code></p> <p><code><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFbR7iDkSaYwKlrKyh252jPLYvBmsUIezBdd9b7MZ1LfxcSqLaV8dNR8b1PrENObHK6_By7EH-V8w9VZt8zwR04Fwyu2RE8zKAdeDsiNRaUciMhzjd-JkRPa1Tr88vzWVZ8l_5lulGkac/s1600-h/2%5B3%5D.png"><img alt="2" border="0" height="94" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiol_okw7QJXHnugkwxwjf5QAY4FSNw6DI2CKYEaUiiLq2jofm9HXoMeAtX33x-tX2jJBwZtGaiv7xIslTLm5sOfjJtOvphuinfn3noHqg4J49pebPUvPVz66hXU-yfOP0JfGy2rgw0QNk/?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; display: inline; border-right-width: 0px" title="2" width="494" /></a> </code></p> <p> </p> <h2>3. Change the Unread Tab Title Font Color </h2> <p>Let’s see how much difference can changing the font color make. Change the above line in userChrome.css to:</p> <p><code>#content tab:not([selected]) {font-weight: bold !important;color:red !important;}</code></p> <p><code>Ok, now that’s a noticeable difference.</code></p> <p><code><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAG9Iud4hCaNMWC-IqbiUFzMatOPkrf0WXcf7Hp1MSCaclMTFPBHa83paghFPmP2wkpsyQ2KAdyISs5P1cvHDtXjKdZ9NwIOx0tqMdir-R42XeH5T0hm77SRptMi2HHcT7OHlDO0kQbAA/s1600-h/3%5B3%5D.png"><img alt="3" border="0" height="94" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfINDutjOpU4pwABm-V7a-7RxVnk8R5dJHv-79d-p-cV9NKIOP4kvVlYJKZc0X4nTlMqchkSfsrlLDuqxnnkqVsGs0SZmHAE35zsstJUrnM90kMnzI3zORRt5vsc-gzn6a0KPOxxuuy2U/?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; display: inline; border-right-width: 0px" title="3" width="494" /></a> </code></p> <p> </p> <h2>4. Change the Background Color of an Unread Tab</h2> <p>Let’s change the background color of an unread tab and see how it looks. Let’s also change the title font to Helvetica.</p> <p><code>#content tab:not([selected]) {font-weight: bold !important;color:red !important;background-color: #80FF6C !important;font-family: helvetica !important;}</code></p> <p>and we get a great result:</p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0C6Jcta41Yf6yw4Ced1Gd4V5OlRx33XPbBfnTNVvYAO-kbz1RowVPQWelPaOzxoTiTM5tei76WpH7wVVxIpuMEFLzBQQwJcI94CwBLhAC8vRfQ_zlOYw6woOdzoE-_RRToC7FS_ZZ_DQ/s1600-h/4%5B3%5D.png"><img alt="4" border="0" height="94" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxwQiKw8w4O7gTU2V1onx2JWqmWtqRgVX0N3xR2p2dDLHOy7qhAatnyWO-ySpm6J3MTacN1IZoF8pUBGOmlwQafbBTYOQVaaeqbhKaIK8FjxaL4L7n6p-MpXc-xMG-GnG9JfXKZBwfGew/?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; display: inline; border-right-width: 0px" title="4" width="494" /></a> </p> <p></p> <p> </p> <p>Basically, if you know a bit of <acronym title="Cascaded Style Sheets">CSS</acronym>, you can tweak the userChrome.css file to your heart’s content. <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html" target="_blank">Get hacking</a>.</p> </p>

We often find ourselves opening a lot of tabs in Firefox using mouse wheel click on the links and then quite soon forget about the opened links. So when Mozilla Links blog posted about a method to quickly find unread tabs in Firefox, we immediately j…

Download Every Default Windows 7 Wallpapers For US, UK and Australian Regions In One Shot

<p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8-T0n6wvZPiC3-2U4RckSDeDMeVo86eSVRcUMfWL9fXkQzsThrEOwdow0UPbhdXy3fQDfMZEHeIrC6U61A2mGitpYftchyphenhyphenLDtrKMGHjxNYQo_S395KMpxRUMGgifZfbUn3EaxKgy2X5o/s1600-h/img48%5B8%5D.jpg"><img alt="Windows 7 Beta Default Desktop" border="0" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLfbQ-29jrqQTFMh-xUppnFThEB1H68b8Al098RNBL6eK1LVHfPPeIQTrFi9v7GWt-jdtj_EXIC4DKsj385ReGEDhDlTXYWP2-iFChO4kiGf_zCftwSv_0yquTBJ7_-annCVnamxbZPHM/?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; display: inline; border-right-width: 0px" title="Windows 7 Beta Default Desktop" width="490" /></a> </p> <p>Windows 7 has different wallpapers for different regions like US, UK and Australia. A standard Windows 7 installation will unlock only the wallpapers (or themes) meant for one region.</p> <p>To get the wallpapers of every other region, you’ll either have to roll up your sleeves and <a href="http://on10.net/blogs/sarahintampa/Unlock-Hidden-Themes-in-Windows-7/" target="_blank">get muddy in windows settings</a> or you can simply <a href="http://cid-439e48a436387b48.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Public" target="_blank">download it all as a rar file here</a>.</p> <p>These wallpapers have been released by the Vista Magazine Blog with the permission of Microsoft. You can also visit <a href="http://www.windowsvistamagazine.com/05582469249658242575/give-your-windows-vista-pc-a-windows-7-makeover.html" target="_blank">this page</a> and download individual wallpaper.</p> <p><a href="http://cid-439e48a436387b48.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Public" target="_blank">Download all Windows 7 wallpapers as a rar file</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.windowsvistamagazine.com/05582469249658242575/give-your-windows-vista-pc-a-windows-7-makeover.html" target="_blank">Windows Vista Magazine Blog</a></p></p>

Windows 7 has different wallpapers for different regions like US, UK and Australia. A standard Windows 7 installation will unlock only the wallpapers (or themes) meant for one region. To get the wallpapers of every other region, you’ll either hav…

Reduce Clutter On Your Windows Desktop With Desktop List View

<p><p><em>Windows only:</em> Windows by default doesn’t allow you to display desktop icons in a list view. There is no right click and display as list option either.</p> <p>If you are someone (like us) who maintain the desktop as a digital junkyard, it might be quite an eye sore using the default icon view with icons overflowing out of your desktop edges. In today’s <a href="http://www.dailygyan.com/search/label/Windows" target="_blank">Windows Gyan</a> column, we introduce you to a tiny application that’ll display your desktop icons as a list instead of large icons thereby reducing the clutter to a great extend.</p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfCZjWnXHX-Xcz638Ap2EWpjORS-F737wCjwRp3W-zh1qAoyEgPpXmNkk-b1OSD-LLt7bWb0n3IhFT5xCIdvTeEzNM3eIC1Zpu56yMpQ9vrmxP3j4QZUfqWVK3jEt9KGHF2BEK84Oc_KM/s1600-h/desktop-list%5B11%5D.png"><img alt="desktop-list" border="0" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx4zqNAcSOMbhPGmaZjCmf4T43uX5dJYIXL3jtuA-OilpyUiceyT1zPHBsx-jnnq9fW4KW5DArk8ExHl3KJbT4sxqB_tBiRqX9zz-_UTgRjEqsrdf4W3n_lAoiYAIQ5DmD29LVLyzm850/?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; display: inline; border-right-width: 0px" title="desktop-list" width="490" /></a> </p> <p>Head over to the <a href="http://iamwill.com/dev/desktopListView/index.php">Desktop List View site</a> and download the <a href="http://iamwill.com/dev/desktopListView/full/DesktopListView_v1.0.exe">self extracting exe</a> or the <a href="http://iamwill.com/dev/desktopListView/full/DesktopListView_v1.0.zip">zip file</a>. Run the ‘desktopListView.exe’ to display your desktop icons in list view. If you didn’t like the view you can revert back to the normal desktop view by running the ‘unload.bat’ file.</p> <p>This tool doesn’t persist the setting. i.e. you’ll have to execute the ‘desktopListView.exe’ each time you login, if you want the list view to stick around between login sessions. As a workaround you can add a shortcut to this executable to the windows startup folder.</p> <p><em>Related: </em><a href="http://www.dailygyan.com/2005/04/how-to-disable-or-hide-desktop-icons-in.html">How To Disable Or Hide Desktop Icons In Windows [Stupid Video Tutorial]</a></p></p>

Windows only: Windows by default doesn’t allow you to display desktop icons in a list view. There is no right click and display as list option either. If you are someone (like us) who maintain the desktop as a digital junkyard, it might be quite an …

Ubuntus For The Religious Geek

<p><p>After Ubuntu Linux proved to be quite a success, there has been a multitude of people who created spin-offs of this distro. </p> <p>A spin-off is a modification of a Linux distribution. The developers change the Ubuntu branding, add their custom branding, themes and applications and launches it as a brand new Linux distro.</p> <p>In today's <a href="http://www.dailygyan.com/search/label/Linux">Linux Gyan</a> column, we introduce you to four Ubuntu spin-offs that are aimed at religious folks.</p> <h2>Ubuntu Christian Edition</h2> Ubuntu CE is a remastered Ubuntu aimed at Christians. <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJfFV5FnPJbmeVyKZwUNOXN4KJRbl7SFkzz8kZ5BFpKns0I8reJGPEUVzPsSu1Oh2oLO8ep4qI4g5QPmPLadl43-tvMNw8jHkQUN7-XJgjt7WBIZ5H9k42ypU0R34SH3IJ7qYR2pkFLuU/s1600-h/dcwmstfp_125hj8gt2gj_b%5B11%5D.png"><img alt="dcwmstfp_125hj8gt2gj_b" border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN6fAvRWm5SLT0kSruLbL-rNefiYCMJS_4LDuKopbaDJ90P9CtyDWrZXvOtjM5QpoSR_OC7gldmZo2E210olBMn7_YJSgKNNiYaZAj2x013WN3pbNiyCGWsEpaZcHKqbmkrrFPUOc88M0/?imgmax=800" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; display: inline" title="dcwmstfp_125hj8gt2gj_b" width="480" /></a> </p> <p>In addition to the standard Ubuntu applications, this distro comes with additional softwares aimed at Christians like <a href="http://xiphos.org/">Xiphos</a>, <a href="http://biblememorizer.sourceforge.net/">BibleMemorizer</a> and <a href="http://www.bibletime.info/">BibleTime</a>. It also comes with <a href="http://dansguardian.org/">DansGuardian</a> – a prominent web content filtering software along with a GUI tool to easily configure it.</p> <p><a href="http://ubuntuce.com/">Ubuntu Christian Edition</a></p> <p> </p> <h2>Ubuntu Muslim Edition </h2> Ubuntu ME is a rebranded Ubuntu distribution that ships a number of software packages (in addition to the standard Ubuntu packages) that help Muslims in their daily religious chores. <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihNHN8-DAhwaV5yE3kc4tSbeiKAHkhqFU8qIdVdf8s1Od9PvKVKkzrnn6y2fUc9HV7ruE8uZjRB_qWq8T5JI3_i8GB_87IRhmMR8scNh9Y7UcQThpmFPtiqm3Nnc786h5KZRQRKL9K1po/s1600-h/dcwmstfp_126fw889vc6_b%5B10%5D.png"><img alt="dcwmstfp_126fw889vc6_b" border="0" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR8Iwmwr-ATKjWkasE-8QTMs1Ixwm0uHSADvUuXjVHxa9B7-U5iM-Mi_MpnD5wmIk4ficzuh70-xKEaZat66A1QfiWCFsCcyuvNq_giKn-XxrbKypZjxFMXldLKrGYkNtTAvhfhXfUbho/?imgmax=800" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; display: inline" title="dcwmstfp_126fw889vc6_b" width="480" /></a> </p> <p>Some of the applications that are bundled with this distro are <a href="http://djihed.com/minbar/minbar-packages">minbar</a> (an Islamic prayer times application), <a href="http://zekr.org/">zekr</a> (a Quranic Study Tool), <a href="https://launchpad.net/monajat">monajat</a> (popups prayers every predetermined time) a Hijra calendar and the <a href="http://dansguardian.org/">DansGuardian</a> web filtering software.</p> <p><a href="http://www.ubuntume.com/">Ubuntu Muslim Edition</a></p> <p> </p> <h2>Jewbuntu </h2> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsa6tq6ro5esEUUOK-lAvaD_qYYL4yXl8TGjlauKEr8awTT280A1mwJaTPJE8ABBTL2b7HhshDDNfhmLUbnHpBWIX4jSfcH9q8WBRtpVBRmyStMLJlS-gapZLq7UH14vEFjJDBDeDR4wo/s1600-h/dcwmstfp_127dpmgzdfc_b%5B10%5D.png"><img alt="dcwmstfp_127dpmgzdfc_b" border="0" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIO2bv9Vv256XnVKAGM9QoqRAEEdhrWJ_B_UYMkbUkijaLT29_KaxWJhfCUnXsa5oROc465bonVrHesm4JTK1BLwNwehByQs0aNHqg5pmTmZ3wxf0iIfFoCKA0HkmU6YzDBypCuxpZJTk/?imgmax=800" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; display: inline" title="dcwmstfp_127dpmgzdfc_b" width="480" /></a> </p> <p>Much details of this disro aren’t available. The site <a href="http://www.jewbuntu.org/">jewbuntu.org</a> gives details but claims that there is no distro that is released yet. However, another site jewbuntu.com gives links to download the disto.</p> <p><a href="http://www.jewbuntu.com/">Jewbuntu.com</a></p> <p> </p> <h2>Ubuntu Satanic Edition </h2> Ubuntu satanic edition is a remastered Ubuntu that gives a dark and malevolent look to your desktop. <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1N027bWWXgD_T18urUJbILtlCIebRqGmjQaSg4x6HmOyqysba2NduCzmwQKAN5LlIExWwPxwmLm7OHL7UfGUD4tNvXtc4pnEBvQBy5wM61yL-a-FYwbLnE83nNxB9VJS3Q5m8T8HAWJY/s1600-h/dcwmstfp_128dhq8xwdg_b%5B11%5D.jpg"><img alt="dcwmstfp_128dhq8xwdg_b" border="0" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJYwAgj7VV8xevnzX8vRdu7KYvZtX1OtIhsGurpXyI2bCGwqpXeIlN3mBArRHd3AQJEbqCdfM-t0vt6wAlfy0g9jmkNMqJAeNBZCphXzxE2KhsypVcRifYYCxSTzPps9jO2n5YJfBtMoc/?imgmax=800" style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; display: inline" title="dcwmstfp_128dhq8xwdg_b" width="480" /></a> </p> <p>Their is nothing evil about this distro apart from the name (so feel free and eat the apple).</p> <p><a href="http://ubuntusatanic.org/news">Ubuntu Satanic Edition</a></p> <p> </p> <p>We would never dare to stop a post like this without mentioning the ubiquitous Jesux distribution. Jesux is a tongue-in-cheek fictional Linux distribution that aims to be an operating system for Christians (this started much before the Ubuntu Christian edition, so Jesux cannot be a parody of Ubuntu CE). Anyway, head over to <a href="http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Node/4081/">Jesux page</a> if you want a good laugh. (Oh, and by the way you spelled Jesux wrong. It’s pronounced “Hay-sooks”).</p> <p>What do you think of these Linux distributions? Know of any other similar ones? Tell us in the comments.</p></p>

After Ubuntu Linux proved to be quite a success, there has been a multitude of people who created spin-offs of this distro. A spin-off is a modification of a Linux distribution. The developers change the Ubuntu branding, add their custom branding, …

Internet Explorer 8 Released. [Web Comics Free with the Download Link ]

<p><p><img alt="clippy-ie8" border="0" height="453" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6oDwOSUqmVi5i7kMsG6ODrHRkfx3ZWwH9il4wVlS-QcVs9C4qBSfJ11agH0RyQXGUxNIt1Kk1Xmw0mqUr73hBnzsE3kIv4zQAwhf3oya2dqloMcnH4t1hLp9ILrQhdj2XR4Rpq5SrcXo/?imgmax=800" style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; float: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; display: block; border-right-width: 0px" title="clippy-ie8" width="467" /> </p> <p>The latest version of Internet Explorer – IE8 has been released by Microsoft.</p> <p>This release adds all features that people expects of a modern browser and will enable Microsoft to give a tight competition to Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Google Chrome.</p> <p>Lifehacker has made a nice roundup of all the IE8 features. Get it <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5042941/internet-explorer-8-beta-2s-familiar-new-features" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> <p>Download Link: <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/" target="_blank">Download Internet Explorer 8</a></p> <p>How did you find IE8? Tell us in the comments</p> <p><em>Related:</em></p> <p><a href="http://www.dailygyan.com/2008/10/install-and-run-different-versions-of.html">Install and Run Different Versions of Internet Explorer Simultaneously</a> </p> <p><a href="http://www.dailygyan.com/2008/12/set-privateigcognito-mode-as-default-in.html">Set Private/Igcognito Mode As Default In Firefox, IE8 and Chrome</a></p> </p>

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How To Remotely Access Linux GUI From Windows PC

<p><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'><p>As Linux is becoming more and more popular, today's networks have become a hybrid mesh of Windows and Linux machines.</p><p>Often, it becomes quite neccessary to remotely gain GUI access to a Linux box from a Windows PC. In today's <a href='http://www.dailygyan.com/search/label/Linux'>Linux Gyan</a> section, we give you various ways to get this done. Though most of the screenshots here are taken in a fedora box, the methods ought to work in any other distro like Ubuntu.</p><p>Note: If you just want a command line access and is not interested in GUI, enable ssh in your linux machine. Then use <a href='http://www.putty.org/'>putty</a> from windows machine.</p><h2>1. Using Cygwin</h2><p>If you happened to have <a href='http://www.cygwin.com/'>cygwin</a> already installed in your Windows PC, then this is the method to go. If you are about to install cygwin, then ensure that you install the X server packages.</p><p>Now you need to make some modifications in the Linux machine to which you want to login. Specifically, you need to enable XDMCP. For this:</p><ol><li>Select <i>System -> Administration -> Login Screen</i>.</li><li>Select the Remote tab and set the style as "Same as local"<br/><br/><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlLvDOTrG_Iu2DMLFrVX9kFjGJVqJYWXamn7_AyKeThzrQHLWsbMQbWxgl_HTd9hherN2GiRdfDWUzup5KkXT5yVryRgHk9EI8SihltyrJFbJMy7oIngRL7jAKP7hD9SUsUT_psl-Rrc4/s800/enabling-remote-logging-linux1.png"/><br/><br/></li><li>If you want to login as root, select the Security tab and ensure that the checkbox "Allow remote system administrator login" is checked<br/><br/><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5BtjCsmrpMOv3wKzjKozqCtMLoBRVdaJZnK5dHE_cPrq72AGkQfZpjoJlR9llErwLYFtRNr2Y9iqrDwKyIuICg0tW2pdAC4p4FKzgAkx_rt4IeZG-HWMtdEbAx896pDK8nrylapPY4Gc/s800/enabling-remote-logging-linux2.png"/><br/><br/></li><li>Reboot the Linux machine.</li></ol><p>Now in the Windows PC, take a cygwin shell and enter the command:</p><div class='alert'><span style='font-weight: bold;'>XWin -screen 0 -clipboard -nodecoration -kb -nowinkill -unixkill -query <ipaddress></span></div>Replace <ipaddress> with the ipaddress of your linux machine (use <i>ifconfig</i> command to know your Linux machine's ip address).<p/><br/><h2>2. Using NoMachine NX</h2><p>NoMachine is an Italian company that developed the NX tool. You need to install the NX server in the Linux machine and run the NX client from Windows. Note that this is not a free software. Some of the parts of the software is released under GPL. NoMachine provides a free edition of their server that you can download <a href='http://www.nomachine.com/select-package-server.php?id=1&ids=2'>here</a>.</p><br/><br/><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3-BVfuAYvrRIn-n-EDOFrbL68W-ccPznvT0zEYoUIKU5HWhkVH7hiXXT6uuh2SZyjp4WXxpaHk9lG18mIj6Hc2DAT559zQ9SB-smivvDLXgsYmbPz_us2UzFWMfR21slp5ckBIZYC22M/s400/img6_big%5B1%5D.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Go for this method if you have a slow network. NX's high compression and caching can reduce the bandwidth cost and deliver a faster performance.</p><h2>3. Use VNC</h2><p>This is the fastest way to get Linux GUI access from Windows. So use this method if your boss has given you a dead line of 5 minutes to setup remote access to a Linux machine from his Windows PC.</p><p>Almost all modern Linux distros come with a vnc server installed by default. Take a terminal and enter <i>vncserver</i>. If run for the first time you'll be asked to set a password. Once VNC server is running, use any VNC client for windows like the <a href='http://www.uvnc.com/index.html'>UltraVNC</a> to access the Linux machine.</p><p><a href='http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/8r4-b7OAaRFW08AJ4hUXFg?authkey=Gv1sRgCPrtn-yb8ffkEQ&feat=embedwebsite'><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA1EZGKRMyScw97-7rt4XHJqnqP92cmUELC_pSApYYEbF-BXfEalqiVsCzVG-1sfjuaowP059hPChDwF-PQx69-TwhpQ76uH8ubMpGR7IEppYLnoAGdFXQbaKIwsm2AcDFZSosR5iAYvs/s400/enabling-remote-logging-linux3.png"/></a></p><p>Note that when you start the VNC server, it will churn out something like <i>New 'localhost.localdomain:1 (root)' desktop is localhost.localdomain:<b>1</b></i>. note the digit that comes after your host name (usually it will be 1).This is your display number to which the VNC server has attached. You need to provide that number in the VNC client as <IPADDRESS>:DISPLAY_NUMBER</p><p>Know of any better ways? Share it in the comments. <br/></p><p><br/></p><br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=25fb2cd2-802b-478f-ab8d-43cd9f58a4e8"/></div></div></p>

As Linux is becoming more and more popular, today's networks have become a hybrid mesh of Windows and Linux machines.Often, it becomes quite neccessary to remotely gain GUI access to a Linux box from a Windows PC. In today's Linux Gyan section, we gi…

How To Download Zip, Rar, Tar.gz and 7z files Even When They Are Blocked [Office Gyan]

<p><div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Corporate offices, schools and colleges often block compressed files like zip, rar, tar.gz and 7z to prevent the spreading of viruses and to prevent users abusing their bandwidth. If you find this restriction quite uncomfortable and illogical, we give you a possible work around here.<br/><br/><i>Related:</i><br/><a href='http://www.dailygyan.com/2008/08/access-flickrcom-even-when-it-si.html'>Access Flickr.com Even When it is Blocked</a><br/><a href='http://www.dailygyan.com/2008/07/access-digg-when-blocked.html'>Access Digg Even When it is Blocked</a><br/><a href='http://www.dailygyan.com/2008/07/access-gmail-even-when-it-is-blocked.html'>Access Gmail Even When It Is Blocked</a><br/><br/>WobZIP is a new web application that gives you online decompression of all popular compression formats like zip, rar, .7z etc. The feature that caught our attention is that you can give the url of a compressed file instead of uploading it and later download the contents of that file.<br/><br/><div align='center'><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3yRBJ1NjJrYAlxxSJX77V5c1EhnftYoYgBMVXjzEJRiLrjUUeeMKZxCjZnCUJx0RHwZ17twNnQZACl-23WCu9-mrLoCpRsRPYpaU5ITyr9f6eoiG6zOYs6deUweT-XJWBTyOZqjAB-Q8/?imgmax=800" style="max-width: 800px;"/><br/><br/></div><br/>Go to WobZIP, select <a href='http://www.wobzip.org/index.php?type=url'>uncompress from a url</a>. Now paste the url of the compressed file url into the text field and hit enter. WobZIP uncompresses the zip file and gives you a list of files in that archieve that you can download individually.<br/><br/>Share your thoughts in the comments.<br/><br/><a href='http://www.wobzip.org/index.php'>WobZIP</a><br/><br/><div class='zemanta-pixie'><img class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/pixy.gif?x-id=177aeb06-65d5-4a6a-94f3-5db377198145"/></div></div></p>

Corporate offices, schools and colleges often block compressed files like zip, rar, tar.gz and 7z to prevent the spreading of viruses and to prevent users abusing their bandwidth. If you find this restriction quite uncomfortable and illogical, we giv…