I use Notepad for writing HTML code, for jotting down quick notes and for “laundering” all kinds of content (capturing the text while getting rid of formatting).

In case you missed it, Microsoft resurrected the old XML Notepad last year. The new version, XML Notepad 2007, is a .NET 2.0 application for which source code is available on CodePlex. I find it ...

Notepad++ is a portable notepad that users like computer programmers will find enormously useful, because it offers something the regular Notepad doesn’t: numbered lines.