Taking a look at Modern alternatives for Microsoft Notepad

Notepad has been an excellent lightweight tool since the beginning of Windows. But lately, it isn’t changing much with the new fluent design language of Windows 10. However, there are some excellent third-party alternatives to Notepad. Since the version 2004 (May 2020 Update) of Windows 10, now we can uninstall Notepad easily. So you can get rid of Notepad altogether if you are satisfied with following 3rd party alternatives. :- ...

June 29, 2020 · 2 min · Vikas Kumar

How to use 'xclip in Gnome Wayland'

Since mainstream launch of Wayland with Gnome, people are facing problem in using xclip. Mainly because xclip is supposed to work with X11 Clipboard. But fortunately there is an option in xclip to overcome this propblem. Just use xclip -selection c instead of xclip. This option will just emulate the ctrl + shift + c action. For easier use you can setup the alias by adding following line in .bashrc or ....

February 3, 2018 · 1 min · Vikas Kumar

Some 'cool' things Visual Studio Code can do you may haven't known

Mircosoft’s Visual Studio Code has proven to be the dark horse of code editors. Don’t confuse yourself by seeing Microsoft as it is completely free, open source and MIT licensed. Even being late to the party, it has attracted enough users. The reason behind this is a perfect balance between speed, features, and hackability. ...

September 28, 2017 · 2 min · Vikas Kumar

Epic Pen is great Windows Ink workspace alternative for Windows 7

Windows Ink workspace is great addition to Windows 10. Due to this tool, annotating has never been easier. However, Windows 7 is still rock solid in the marked. Apart from corporate users many personal users are on Windows 7 which include my relatives. When I use thier PC, only option to achieve the screen sketch is to take screenshot in paint and draw on it using pain. This method is not bad but also doesn’t goes smoothly with my work flow. Mainly because it involes too much clicks ...

August 2, 2017 · 1 min · Vikas Kumar