If you run your own web site and run Perl, PHP scripts or the like, there will be instances where you have to edit some files from time to time. The long way to do it is to download the file you need to edit, modify it, then upload it back. The short way is to edit the file "live" on the server directly. Using Notepad++ this is easy to do with...

By default when you create screencasts using recordmydesktop in Linux (Ubuntu specifically), the output is an OGG container file. As anyone who has tried to bring that file into Windows quickly learns, there’s not too much software out there that will “understand” OGG in Windows, and even less available if you want to edit it later on using...