As has been reported already by… pretty much everyone else, there have been some recent significant software releases and updates. First up, recent days saw an update to a veneered and generated… I mean revered and venerated BeOS application, Pe – the Programmer’s Editor. It’s hard to imagine, but the folks maintaining the open source version have managed to make improvements to the best text editor in existence (and I say that as someone who has heavily used EditPlus, Arachnophilia, BBEdit, vim, EMACS, and JOE). The new release adds a ruler along the top, a button to quickly enable/disable soft-wrapping, the UI is now much more font-sensitive, and Pe now has support for passive FTP.

Next, Tigerdog has posted a new version of the HaikuFox Theme, his NetPositive-esque theme for Firefox; as always, he’s been hard at work making tweaks and adding new visual touches to the theme. And lastly, Slaad recently posted a set of utilities for users of multi-monitor setups, descriptively named MultiMonitorTools. The suite inlcudes two applications meant to be bound to SpiceyKey shortcuts: MonitorSwitcher, which moves the current window to a different monitor, and LocalFullScreener, which makes the active window fill the current monitor (the zoom/maximize button apparently makes a window fill both monitors). They sound quite handy, makes me wish I could find an affordable KVM switch with multi-monitor support.

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