The program has been written by the bloke who left Allaire, after writing HomeSite for them. I'd never managed to find a decent Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) editor until I found TopStyle. I can't live without it and it is usually one of the first programs I install on a new pc. Multimedia Explorer is kind of like Windows Explorer in appearance apart from that it only shows you multimedia files and has a window that lets you view the file. If you've got loads of different gif and jpeg files knocking around your hard drive whose file names mean absolutley nothing and you have to open them all the time to remind you what they are then this is the tool for you. I use it for alsorts! Give it time and I'm sure you all will too. As it happens, I am using it right now to write this article before I bother to login to codestore and start to pretty it up. Whenever you need to get some of this text back you simply open it up again and there it is. You can then paste text in and simply press Escape to save the content and minimize it back in to the tray area. You can configure it like I have so that pressing something like Windows Key + A opens it up. This handy little tool lives in the System Tray as a little icon.
What we need is a handy little tool that we can use to quickly paste lots of text, adding them all in to distinct categories so that we can quickly find them again. The trouble is that this is time-consuming and messy. txt files on my Desktop and place code in to these.
What I used to do to avoid this is have "temporary". How many times have you cut some text/code in to the clipboard planning on using it later and then accidentely overwritten it by copying something else and thus losing the original code? I seem to do it all the time and, as far as I know, there is no way back. If you've got something you use that's a must-have let us all know about it using the comment form. One of the first things I do when I get a new PC after starting in a new contract is to add the little software utitlities I can't live without. The software I take everywhere 28 February 2002
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