Notepad++ has been a very popular open source code editor and text editor for a long time. Licensed under the GPL and available for Windows, many people use it as a replacement for Windows Notepad, and as an editor to write blog posts in, where it won't introduce the same formatting problems that some word processors do (which can throw off a blog engine). In SourceForge's last Community Choice Awards, it was named Best Tool or Utility for Developers. Now, the folks at PortableApps have announced a handy new portable version of it. 

We covered the SourceForge Community Choice Awards announcement in early July, and now the winners have been named. This marks the first year when SourceForge's awards for the best open source projects have been open to all open source projects. OpenOffice is far and away the big winner, but I was pleased to see some lesser known projects get recognition, too. Here, below the fold, are the winners.

If you want a fast way to get a long list of excellent open source applications, check into PortableApps.com. I covered this site once before from the perspective of keeping useful open source applications on a pocket USB thumb drive. Since then PortableApps has been steadily adding excellent open source applications to its free downloadable offering, including a good open source task manager, and a useful open source FTP client for those times when you need to move large files around. This is the fastest way I know of to stock up on great OSS apps.