Items tagged with Notepad
For decades Notepad has been an essential but incredibly basic text editor available in every copy of Windows. Well, it’s about to get a little more useful with the inclusion of spellcheck and autocorrect in Windows 11. These new features will begin to roll out to users participating in the Windows Insiders program as...
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I guess the Notepad built into Windows is fine, but it could be better. It could have more features, cleanliness, and could simply just be iterated on as an improvement. Thankfully, there is Notepad++, a free and open-source Notepad replacement and code editor, which has become incredibly popular. With this...
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After a 30-year run, Microsoft WordPad is being put out to pasture in favor of newer software. Microsoft says there is no need to worry, however, as it offers two options to take its place.
As Microsoft has updated its Windows OS through the years, certain features and functionality have been deprecated or simply...
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Many people dream of meeting their heroes. It seems like tech YouTuber Samperson got that opportunity in a round-about way recently, when legendary PC game designer John Romero reacted to a Twitter post showing how a fan got the 1993 classic first-person shooter DOOM running in Notepad.
Almost as popular as the...
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Windows 10 is a constant work in progress—Microsoft ditched the practice of pushing out monolithic upgrades and instead committed to releasing two major feature upgrades each year (and of course it maintains month security patches on the second Tuesday of every month, known as Patch Tuesday). One of the features that...
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With the growing popularity of Apple's iPad, we figured it wouldn't take long before other companies got into the mix. The day before Computex 2010, Asus introduced the Eee Pad, a Windows based tablet PC that is sure to shake up the mobile market and give potential iPad owners something to think about. Asus offers two...
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