I like notepad ++ the best. It has more features than this program.And it's FREE.

#24 and #16 ... I think I found a Pandora download site.
http://pc-pandora.download-291-13160.datapicks.com/

Seems like SysTracer, a GAOTD freebee from last November, might also do the trick, but that sucker's like ten thousand termites on steroids in a sawdust pile when it comes to eating up hard disk space. . It really IS quite good, though.

Hope this helps,
Bill

i am using windows vista basic and it installed and works perfectly

thanks GAOTD and Brother Technology!

Is it safe to install this version over the old offered here before? Do we need to uninstall the old one?

AxCut

I really like that this does, Collapse/Expand Block. PSPad does not do this.

I like the column editing and syntax highlighting, PS Pad does both of these too.

This does not seem to let one do Macros, PS Pad does macros.

For those looking for a "do-all editor with a preview half screen or full screen mode" similar to MS front page...I love Namo Web Editor 6. I bought it on Ebay brand-new with two extra programs, Web Canvas (graphic customizer)and Web Board (message board and blog developer) for 30.00. Namo also has mega scripts, many nice layouts to choose from, including macromedia premade buttons and banners, and a built-in ftp uploader. For the serious bloggers and website designer, Namo is priceless. Thank you GAOTD for offering these type of programs. Does anyone know of a program like Printmaster, a "do-all printing program", that makes biz cards, flyers, banners, cards, ect???

Sincerely
Beckii

Uninstalling now, thanks for the pointers to freeware equivalents.

Uninstalled failed, a DLL was active (aeext.dll? - I forgot to write the name down). Revo got rid of it on reboot.

Shouldn't have been anything hooked in that couldn't be deleted - I hadn't even managed to start the program up.

G


Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: aptedit.exe
Application Version: 4.5.1.294
Application Timestamp: 480b505b
Fault Module Name: StackHash_2796
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: 80000003
Exception Offset: 008375ba
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.2
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 2796
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Additional Information 3: e460
Additional Information 4: ca84c544d6708ce9672bd1c1e939eeea

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As with so many programs here, does not run as a non-privileged user when installed as administrator on Vista Home with UAC disabled.

I find it hard to imagine what a program can be trying to do that will cause one of these errors; all an editor needs to do is read and write simple files, but this happens immediately on double-clicking the program icon before you even get a chance to access your files.

Uninstalling now, thanks for the pointers to freeware equivalents.

G

Hi Damien comment #35, you're right, but, so long as you make a copy of the installed program the reg code will work. The only drawback is that you have to manually place the application and create a shortcut for it.

#44 & #54,
I appreciate it very much guys, THANKS.
Spooner

I’ve been a programmer for many years and I can tell you that any programmer worth his salt requires more than one editor.

Any programmer worth his salt will write his own editor that does everything he needs :-)

G (programming since '73.)
PS Since this is Programmers Day, here's a freebie for C programmers you might find useful: http://www.gtoal.com/utils/cfold.c.html ( http://www.gtoal.com/utils/cfold.c )
I only finished it recently, I'll probably improve it as time goes by.
There's also one for PL/SQL programmers: http://www.gtoal.com/plsql/plfold.c.html ( http://www.gtoal.com/plsql/plfold.c )

Haven't installed this, but a couple of notes after looking at the detailed features at the homepage:

1) Regarding file comparison, AptEdit Pro does both text and binary files. PSPad and WinMerge, both of which I have installed, handle only text files.

2) AptEdit Pro claims to support Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions. These are much more extensive than implementations in some editors, which can vary widely. (PSPad supports regular expressions, but does not state in the help file which system or subset of expressions.)

The above features would most likely be of interest to serious programmers. (By the way, I'm not knocking PSPad. I just installed it a couple of days ago, and after going through a very detailed examination of features and settings I'm impressed.)

Hope this helps someone.

I'm rather partial to Microsoft's Visual Web Developer Express. I know next to nothing about HTML and CSS, but with a little help starting from a friend, and the easy to understand interface of VWD, I managed to come up with a pretty awesome site. The folder system, web-preview, and code auto-complete are great aspects that I really like about it.

Now, my host didn't have ASP on the level I was paying for, so I couldn't use the master pages and had to do each html page individually, but with a simple copy/paste of a page with no content, I was able to easily keep my layout the same amongst all the pages. I imagine using the master pages option is even cooler.

So... as a free alternative, I definitely recommend Visual Web Developer Express. It's very easy to use, even for beginners like me.

Joy

looks like about 5 megs base install, win2k fat32. not bad at all.

everything from the website- text, html, pics, add-ons, and the installar only 16 megs, so it should stay low-profile with all the bells and whistles.

I downloaded and installed this program for my daughter who does alot of graphic design and was looking to start editing with HEX and HTML. It might be a little hard for her right now, but definately looks to be very capable of serving all of her needs at this time. Considering she uses Photoshop CS3 with ease, I think she will like this program very much. Looks like it does everything it claims and easily opens every file format I have tried so far. Big thumbs up from me today. Thanks GAOTD.

I am a real adept of UltraEdit. There is really nothing that UltraEdit cannot do. It is my best buy ever. Of course you're free to differ in opinon, this is just mine.

I like comparing stuff so I downloaded this one. It really struck me how much it resembles UltraEdit. Even the menues have about the same plan. Also UltraCompare and AptDiff look alike.
It downloaded fine and it registered fine (also clearly stated).
And I must say it works fine to. I just didn't have the time to compare in detail, but for everyone who needs a good editor, AptEdit is and it's free to day. I won't switch from UltraEdit, but when you don't have nothing more than notepad, do take the GAotD by all means !!! There will be a time it comes in handy.

I like the program and I've added it to my toolset.

I've been a programmer for many years and I can tell you that any programmer worth his salt requires more than one editor. However, you have to be very selective. You can't just add everything available. AptEdit is one of very few welcome tools in my library.
I installed it and it tested just fine.
The Hex Editor is incorporated very nicely into this.

Thank You David Cheng & GAOTD.

I like the idea that it can be installed on a flash drive for portability. Problem is the vendor nor GAOTD state the installed size, so I can't detirmine if I have enough room to even bother with downloading today's offer.

The program installed and runs OK on XP. I only plan on using it for web pages, so I can't address the other features. I love hearing about freeware alternatives here. Please keep it up! Thanks GAOTD and those of you who provide helpful information.

I'm also on Vista Home Premium and also can't install it. Tried twice. It finished installing, tried to run it, and it said it stopped working and windows had to shut it down.

For Paul #30 - For folder comparison there is Tarylynn which is free for personal use. For a more full-featured product try ExamDiffPro. Check out its features here. My OS is WinXP so check specs if you use a different OS.

Downloaded and worked fine on Vista Ultimate with all service except SP1 installed.

Pro:

- Program help is extensive and actually descriptive, and available from dialogs, too.
- Simple shell integration allows you to open files in the product.
- Coloration is handled nicely.
- Able to edit hex and html.
- Able to edit the disk when run as admin (very scary, tho...)
- Automatically opens last edited file if opened without specifying one.
- Find in Files is a nice built-in super GREP that works on the current file, open files, or on a directory with or without subfolders. Supports regular expressions. Creates a report which you can double-click to open file and highlight found text. Nice, nice, nice.
- Replace in Files - like Find in Files with replace. Again, quite scary, but nice to have.
- Spell checker... oh, now I can spell check my code comments!
- Keyboard short-cut assignment of apparently all functions.

(I get the feeling that the author actually uses this product to program with...)

Con:
- Program doesn't accept dropped files.

All in all, a very nice and very useful program with gazillion featues. Esp. nice is the F-in-F functionality. A real keeper. For what it offers, the retail price would be worth paying were it not offered for free today.

Oh, and for all those pointing to winmerge and the like, be aware that np++ has a comparison plugin which is ery good.

To all those that offer freeware alternatives, it is much appreciated. I always follow the links before downloading the software of the day, and than I can know if I am truly getting something worth downloading - including commiting to buy if I need it for another computer.
Sometimes, I find that that the freeware is actually better - in which case I appreciate not having to commit to a worse proggy.

The GATD team, keep up the great work. Everything is appreciated - from screen savers to dvd rippers, even if I only download 1 out of 10.

Have used aptEdit and Notepad++ very, very extensively, as well as many others (primarily Jedit, Aptana/Eclipse, Scite ..).
Have found that aptEdit has some nice features not found in Notepad++, such as tool-bars. But it lacks other very important features (eg. no ftp/ssh support).
I have found aptEdit to be stable enough for heavy use (although it has crashed more frequently than np++) and quick enough loading to make it the only viable alternative to NP++ or Scite. Well worth getting, (although $40+ seems a bit much due to the huge amount of competition in this arena), at least as a second editor.
Have never tried it for Flash/Flex work, as FlashDevelop seems to have all I need except fast load time. However, if one of the included libraries on this pro model is Actionscript, I would seriously love a good alternative to Flex Builder.

For Spooner and Charles FYI http://pandora.sourceforge.net/en/index.php

I think it is great idea to post free alternatives.

1) Like someone said already, we need a measuring stick for similar kind of products. If this 'paid' software can just do what free software can do, then there is no reason to even try this. The more people use the freeware, likely they will enhance it more and develop more add-on, etc when more people involve. Make more sense to help the freeware to improve.

2) People keep saying what you get from here GAOTD is FREE also. But they fail to understand it is ONLY free for one day and you have NO SUPPORT. So few things can happen, if your computer crash or you accidentally uninstall the software, etc, then you can't reinstall it for FREE. Or if there is a bug (like press some keys and the program crash), the bug is fixed in next version. You are not going to get the fix since the next version is NOT free.

Based on all these, I think it is great people post free alternative so we can compare and know what else is out there.

People need to remember just because some program is 'commercial software', doesn't mean it is better than freeware.

#29 If you do not have something useful to say,don't post.
If you feel you are wasting your time please go away and don't come back, as you are wasting ours. I check GAOTD every day to see what I can get for FREE and when you can get something for free it is never a waste of time.
I apologize GAOTD for wasting more space.
Jammer

AptEdit Pro is similar to PSPad which I use and like very much but AptEdit Pro has other features as well. I look forward to using it. Thanks GAOTD.

Great program and concept (although I have seen some free alternatives, too). Only one problem, it crashed repeatedly on Windows Vista Home Premium. I have an AMD Turion64 Dual Core, 2 GB, RAM, and everything else runs smooth on my computer. What can I say? I reinstalled it twice, ran as administrator, and it still didn't work. #25-author of software- What system did you test it on? The program just keeps saying it has "stopped working."

Really smooth install and uninstall, though. No traces left, so good job on that, just need to work out those bugs for vista since #10 had the same problem...

I edit HTML for websites using Outlook Express on the SOURCE tab. When I click back to the typical compose section I can then see if it took or not. Of course, that is modifying and removing the HTML that makes it OE. Am I the only one that does this? I've had NO problems on pages doing this for years. I am self-taught but I never had to hire anyone for professional work by this. Any input on this? I've always wondered. I like the fact I can see the effect or the damage by going from source to compose. The only prob is saving it before switching or I lose the format as it reformats it to the MS OE read-out. I'd love some feedback on this. I am lost on the editors for HTML though. Help? Thanks.

I have downloaded and installed and tested.
Very stable, many options and think in just ONE program.
This is a keeper!
Now I can uninstall FOUR programs to free up space and CPU load.
Thanks GAOTD & Brother Tech., You made this a nice start to the Day.
Jammer

I said it before, I'll say it again.
gaotd is a great service!

Malc

I've been coding web pages for years using the free PSPad. In PSPad one can click on any tag and PSPad will highlight the corresponding opening/closing tag. This I find very handy at times. AptEdit Pro doesn't seem to have this capability. It does, however, hightlight matching braces, a feature I can think of no use for.

Number4 the correct address is www.pcpandora.com

It's a thumbs-up from me.

What would I personally pay for it? For the non-pro feature set, I'd say somwhere around $25-35. Add the spell checker, disk editor, and other features of Pro and I'll go close to the $45-55 mark. If it had a scripting language (hint: REXX!) I'd go the $60 pretty easily.

A bit more than first impressions:

It's a nice editor that I'll keep in my arsenal. May not become my first editor, but it's a very close competitor. It's poor handling of ASP pages compared to Notepad++ is the biggest drawback.

I'm an old-school "full screen editor" guy from the XEDIT (cms) / KEDIT/THE (dos/win) days, and AptEdit definitely shows some ideas from the good old dependable editors. I really love having line numbers, a ruler line, and the highlight at column 80. Column mode is a big plus. I haven't had to do it in ages, but it's nice to see ASCII EBCDIC. For my database inport work, the convert delmited to/from column text is a real boon (just wish I could say that all of the strings are XX width for conversion both directions).

Really like the Navigate Forward/Backward command. Jumping between edit points is a boon when programming!

It won't become my main editor (yet, at least) because it doesn't handle ASP nearly as well as Notepad++ does. Minor frustration, but I can't find a way to turn the ruler on when the editor loads. Also doesn't match quotes the same way as it does for braces. And the "function" list doesn't match sub/end sub as far as I can tell.

#38,AptEdit Pro can save files with no file extension. As save an unnamed file, if the file name does not include file extension, AptEdit Pro would promotes a message to add "txt" extension. You can select "No" if you do not need the file extension.

There are many of these syntax highlighting programs out there. If you program or web design they are very nice to use. I have used this product in the past and it highlighted my syntax very nicely, worked well, and was easy to understand. It is a little clunky for a text editor. It will take longer to open than notepad will. Overall it does what it is supposed to do. For all who offer a free alternative, thanks but for the most part, which syntax highlighting text editor is simply a matter of preference. If you have never tried one, give this a try, after all it is free today and you won't waste anything by trying it. (unless it sets your computer on fire, but I don't think anyone has had that problem yet)

To #29 (Robert): Please realize there are also many here who AREN'T "pretty savy" when it comes to apps -- whether offered by GAOTD or are freeware alternatives. I for one, am as grateful to GAOTD for not catering just to the knowledgable software "elite" as I am to those knowledgable enough to compare and offer alternatives to the giveaway of the day. I've not been aware many of these programs and applications (or alternatives) even existed.

I doubt any software provider (or website) can 'be all' or 'do all' to please everyone. It isn't GAOTD or the provider of this software (which I'm downloading and installing now) who's wasting my time; it's going through the myrad of complaints like yours. My apologies, GAOTD, for yet another off-topic message.

John

To no 29: Er, I don't think you've quite realised that here on GAOTD we have the opportunity to download programs that we would otherwise have to pay for QUITE FREE. Yes, there are probably freeware or shareware alternatives available, but so what? This is an opportunity to get commercial software free - and you don't have to put up with endless spam from the program developers and those to whom they sell their mailing lists, either.

I'm not going to download today's offering, as I don't think I would use it, but I check the site daily and am very grateful for some of the programs I've been offered! Thank you, GAOTD, I appreciate your services.

Wordpad and notepad are limited in file size, to respond to an earlier comment.

This will not allow a user to save files with no file extension, so it is useless to me.

I'm trying it as we speak and it seems quite good. I've never used any syntax highlighter (thats what they're called right?) before, so I really cant judge, but its something different, so I'll give it a thumbs -up anyway.

#32, there is a option --Maximize window on startup-- in "Options | General" page. It is enable in default. You can cancel it. Restart AptEdit Pro, AptEdit Pro will keep the window size and position.

#20 FYI - The registration code does not work with the programme installation file from the developers website (not always the case but it is with this one).

Regards - Damian

I've heard a lot about how great Notepad ++ is... I'll have to try it. But does it have an integrated browser like AptEdit Pro?

This is a good program but when there are so many good free alternatives, i am not sure many would pay the hefty price for it. Of course getting it here today is a good bargain.
I have been using Eversoft first page 2000 for years and i love it. It color codes as well so i can easily find my mistakes, which is good cause im a lousy typist lol. You cant download it anymore, unless you find someone who saved it because they are now on the 2007 version, which sucks lol. Im glad i saved it and have it in my 4shared.

Its a small thing, but irritating to me, it does not seem to retain previous window positioning and sizing - always opens up full screen.

To #1, 3, 4, 14, 17 We all know that there are are free alternatives!
But here at GAOTD you also get the programs for free!!
So why you come every day and say go use this and that, they are free?
If you don't like what GAOTD has to offer why you visit the site?

I have been looking for a an all inclusive solution to the multiple programs that I currently use for file editing, and I thought I had found a solution in AptEdit Pro, but I think the software still lacks some functionality, which prevents me from removing my old programs.

I currently use Foldermatch for file comparison. AptEdit has a file comparison, but unfortunately it seems to like a directory comparison tool which Foldermatch DOES have. If anybody finds out if AptEdit is able to do directory comparison, please let me know. I am VERY eager to replace Foldermatch since it quite old and is not being updated frequently......however I can't do it without first having a replacement for the directory comparison.

For notepad replacement I use EditPadPro and I don't see many differences between AptEdit and EditPad Pro.

For Binary Editor I use 010 Editor which performs flawlessly.

So my conclusion is that AptEdit Pro is a good all inclusive solution, but unfortunately it doesn't include all the features that one would get with individual applications which seem to be more specialized and have a more powerful feature set. If AptEdit did directory comparison in addition to the file comparison I may give it a try, but without that feature I will only duplicate applications on my hard drive, as I can't live without the directory comparison offered by FolderMatch, but NOT offered by AptEdit.

Thanks for the give-away, but.... when are you going to stop giving away software that has freeware alternatives that are better and are free? Don't you realize most of the people here are pretty savvy when it comes to apps that are available for FREE ?

Please stop wasting our time.

Thanks, GAOTD.

With respect to people's comments on other programs, I couldn't disagree with you more, Skye-hook. I find those comments to be both right on target and some of the most useful in the comments section.

Comparing a giveaway product's features and capabilities with alternatives (free and otherwise) is a perfectly valid method of assessing its merits. In fact it's a staple of most published product evaluations offered anywhere.

On a side note I've often searched the comments section here when I'm in need of a particular type of software both to see which products have been offered in the past and how people have evaluated them against competing products before I make a decision.

In way of editors I've used both Notepad + and GridinSoft Notepad Pro which was a previous giveaway and have been happy with both products. I tend to favor Notepad + because I work on multiple PCs and know I can always install it on any workstation when I need it.

I'll be giving this one a try too.