Want Notepad to be like it was in the Windows XP era? Meet TinyRetroPad

Fed up with Microsoft bloating Notepad? An Ex-Microsoft engineer has shrunk it down to 2.5KB somehow.

Former Microsoft dev built a 2.5KB Notepad clone with zero AI features

Plummer is the man who claims to have created some major Windows features, including the original Task Manager application. Now, the YouTuber and retired developer shared ...

I switched to an open-source notes app for 2 weeks, and I wish I had done it sooner

Looking for an open-source notes app you'll actually enjoy using? I recently tried Notesnook, and I've been pleasantly ...

JetBrains' new AI-first 'IDE' JetBrains Air is now on Windows

JetBrains has brought JetBrains Air to Windows, several months after launching it in public preview for macOS.

Why Déjà Dup and these 4 other tiny Linux tools have become essential to my daily routine

Why Déjà Dup and these 4 other tiny Linux tools have become essential to my daily routine ...
InfoQ

Hardwood Promises High-Speed JVM Apache Parquet Processing with Zero Mandatory Dependencies

Hardwood, the project Gunnar Morling kick-started handling of Parquet files in Java, reached version 1. Its multi-threaded approach and zero mandatory external dependencies promise a simpler, more ...
XDA Developers on MSN

Obsidian's CLI turned my terminal into a note-taking machine, and I stopped opening the app

Turns out I use the app more when I don't need to open it.
Phone Scoop

LG Lotus

This thin, light CDMA messaging phone sports a QWERTY keyboard, large QVGA main display, EVDO data, and a 2 megapixel camera. Other features include stereo Bluetooth, memory card slot, and an external ...