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The case for the GoogleOS (part 2)

Aren't the Google Apps enough?

Next question: Why should Google create an operating system? Isn't it enough for them to create their own suite of Office applications (Google Apps) as a replacement for MS Office? Why get into the operating system battle?

By Alvin Alexander on July 19, 2010

The case for the GoogleOS (part 1)

Introduction

After reading this article by John C. Dvorak, I can start buying into the need for Google to create their own operating system, aka, the GoogleOS. More specifically, the OS should be a binary-compatible replacement for Microsoft (MS) Windows.

By Alvin Alexander on July 23, 2009

Microsoft FrontPage (product review)

After all these years -- and despite some of the bad things I've written about Microsoft and Windows in the past -- and all the people that laugh at me for using it, FrontPage is still my favorite HTML WYSIWYG editor.

By Alvin Alexander on July 23, 2009

jEdit - How to modify the "next word" and "previous word" actions in jEdit

By default jEdit stops at the beginning and end of each word when using the "next word" (CTRL + Right Arrow) and "previous word" (CTRL + Left Arrow) actions. Personally, I don't like this; I'd much rather it stop only at the beginning of each word. Fortunately the authors have made it easy to change this, if not easy to find.

To change this behavior in jEdit, you just need to remap the keystrokes to alternative actions. Just follow these steps:

By Alvin Alexander on September 15, 2009
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