About a couple months ago, I switched text editors from Textpad to E - TextEditor. Despite E - TextEditor’s lame name, I was shocked to find out how superior it was to my previous editor. Although E has some stability issues, I still think that it is one of the best text editors for Windows. However, considering that E was released only 3 months ago, I think it is remarkably stable. Also, because of E’s rapid development and its large community, I would expect that these issues will be quickly resolved. If you are looking for a new text editor for Windows, I would strongly encourage you to try the 30-day trial.

I just had my first experience with a company called Widgetbox. I am always surprised at what you can find on the internet. However, I feel like an idiot when my “non-technical” friends seem more knowledgeable than me. This usually entices me to throw a half-dozen programming/computer acronyms into a sentence to retain my dignity :D.

Widgetbox allows you to make small widgets for a bunch of enviroments including: Blogger, Typepad, Myspace, Facebook, Netvibes, Pageflakes, Google, etc. Remind me again? Why am I making Facebook applications? This seems to do everything that Facebook Apps can do and more. If I have some spare time, I might play around with it. Anyways, while I was checking out Widgetbox, I came across a pacman widget.

I just learned something cool from Joel on Software. All the “serious” bloggers might think I’m crazy for not already knowing this. There is a site called Bloglines which finds all links to your blog or blog entry. You can take a look at all the people who are linking to me.. Wow, only one person! You can tell that I don’t have many subscribers to my blog. Don’t worry, it doesn’t phase me in the least bit. It just means less people see my grammar mistakes. However, if you decide to link to me, I won’t mind :P.

Last week I got an interesting proposition to build a Facebook app for a Toronto based magazine called Trend Hunter. The application is based on a Facebook RSS Reader I made for jkwiens.com. Trend Hunter (or at least someone associated with it) wanted a similar thing for their magazine. The application connects to different RSS Feeds that the magazine creates and publishes it on a Facebook User’s profile. While creating this app, I created a more generic Facebook application called myBlog which will publish any RSS Feed to a Facebook User’s profile. If you have a blog, you should check it out. It could probably use some more testing, but I will iron them out. Anyways, I learned a lot about the Facebook API by doing this project. There is a lot of little problems I came across. I will write about them in a future posting, so you can learn from my mistakes.

A few people at work showed me this little web app game a few months ago called Desktop Tower Defense. It is an addictive a little game. The crazy part is that the guy makes $8,000 a month from Ad Revenue. That is almost 100K a year!