Cool Notepad Trick: Just when you thought Notepad was useless. I never knew this existed.

Open a blank Notepad file […] Write .LOG (in uppercase) in the first line of the file, followed by Enter. Save the file and close it. […] Double-click the file to open it and notice that Notepad appends the current date and time to the end of the file and places the cursor on the line after.

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1. Comment by Joe, July 8, 2006 6:57 pm

   Now someone needs to write a server-side script to turn that text file into a web log.

2. Comment by Jeremy, July 10, 2006 9:51 am

   When did they add that feature? Wow.

3. Comment by Mike, July 13, 2006 11:20 am

   This feature was added a LONG time ago… Since Windows 98 at least. Maybe earlier:

   http://www.wugnet.com/TIPS/displaylegacy.asp?ID=1225

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