PhpStorm provides rich and intelligent code editor for PHP with syntax highlighting, extended code formatting configuration, on-the-fly error checking, and smart code completion.

PHP Code Completion

Code completion (Ctrl + Space) finalizes classes, methods, variable names, and PHP keywords, plus commonly used names for fields and variables depending on their type.

Code completion only includes local scope on first invocation. Press Ctrl+Space again to see all global variants.

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Windows 7 has been the most popular OS ever for Microsoft. One of the big features of Windows 7 was its integrated support for PCs that were capable of taking advantage of touch. Microsoft has just released Touch Pack for Windows 7 for anyone with Windows Touch capable devices to download. The Windows 7 touch pack was first introduced last May as a series of 6 applications that were designed to showcase Windows Touch in Windows 7 and to help people learn touch gestures. The features were limited to OEMs with devices having multitouch. But now the Touch pack allows users to use it with any 3rd party touchscreens.

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OpenOffice 3.1 has been around quite sometime and now there is an updated version 3.2 just released on Feb 11th, 2010. Many companies like Oracle (earlier Sun), Red Hat, IBM etc have worked on this community driven Office Software suit. Great features and extra stability have been introduced post OpenOffice 3.0.  Here is our review on OpenOffice Calc, a worthy alternative to the most popular Spreadsheet software, Microsoft Excel.

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We all know the danger of loosing data and loosing data happens easily like hard disk break up, a virus attack, accidental deletion of files and various other calamities. Though the value of the date is price less, we are not ready yet to pay for expensive backup software that backs up our expensive data. In the earlier post we had reviewed online services available to backup your data. In this post we review some open source back up software that will come to use for those of you who don’t want to spend too much in buying backup software. Here are 4 open source backup software for Windows system that one must try before buying commercially available backup software.

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Sometimes, you need to protect sensitive data from others opening it. Sometimes, friends have this annoying habit of opening files on your laptop or something that might embarrass you. Even company confidential files need to be protected. This will be helpful incase you lose your laptop or something. So, there are so many reasons to encrypt files, folders or even the entire partition for that matter. There are so many utilities. Most famous of them is AxCrypt. We’ve been using it for quite sometime. It is tried and tested by more than 1.5 million across the globe. AxCrypt is Open Source and Free. Very simple to install and use. It integrates seamlessly with Windows to compress, encrypt, decrypt, store, send and work with individual files.

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What is Mind Mapping?

Quoting Wikipedia :

A mind map is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged radially around a central key word or idea. It is used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing.

An illustration of a Mind Map on Happiness (Source: http://www.mind-mapping.co.uk)

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How many instant messaging programs are there? Dozens, upon dozens but the real problem is managing them all. We all have multiple email addresses and use many web portals and email services. Even those that deny it, will likely have at least 2 email accounts. One for your ISP, and at least one for work, or your cell phone even. At the very minimum, we have 2.

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