I know nothing to write about, I have nothing currently running from projects, only a few ideas but for some reason I don't think I will ever complete them. So, time to share an idea I had in mind.

On my Windows box, my desktop is quite messy, but I barely use it, only to dump files sometimes, I never use the shortcuts, that's why I have a start menu. My current desktop is this:

Of course I see the problem with that, it's messed up as hell but when I "align them to grid", they are miles off my screen and I never can decide what I should keep or not. My icons are arranged loosely according to file type, you can clearly see directories and archive files being arranged together. Now I had the idea of creating a new type of desktop shortcut, (I am unable to, I know nothing about integrating things into the Windows shell), something with anchor points.

The idea is you have only a few icons on your desktop, for example, one is named "Archive files". The moment you click it, some awesome-Vista-or-Compiz-style-animation makes a few files pop out of it, connected with lines to the original thing. Then you can select the file you want and the menu closes itself, leaving a clean desktop again.

This is nothing for the average computer user though, who doesn't fill his desktop, but for programmers who constantly have to download new files for their clients etc, it can get quite handy.

I'll try to create an example in Javascript to illustrate what I mean, don't expect too much of it.

Having professionnaly wrecked my Linux box, I'm on Windows again, too lazy to fix it. Luckily, there are programmers who understand the need for a good editor, without all the extra shit you'll use once to play with it. Syntax highlighting in Notepad++ is the best I've ever seen in an editor, whatever language you program in. The colors also don't burn your eyes out (exit: Microsoft Script Editor), which is a nice little extra of course.

So, when you're on Windows, you better use Notepad++. When on Linux, well, ... I'm not gonna say anything since this has always been some hot topic and I don't want my house burned down by a bunch of angry protesters.

but we all know gedit is the best

Unless you're some tech expert, of course. To use these commands, go to your Start menu, click "Run ..." and type in "cmd", you can type the commands here to test. This only works when you're a user with sufficient rights (not a guest, for example). All these commands were tested on Windows XP Professional running Service Pack 1. Detailed help on each command can also be retrieved by using <command> /? in the command prompt.

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