Volume II: Issue I, Winter 2006
Published: December 31st., 2006
In This Issue:
How To Save Money And Make Your Computer Fast And Stable!
From the Editor: A Look Back, and a Vision Ahead
WarpStock North America 2006
--Jeramie Samphere
My Impressions From WarpStock Europe 2006
--Axel Meiss
OpenDOC, a Forgotten Technology
--Jeramie Samphere
Lucide, the New Document Viewer for eComStation
--Axel Meiss
CBIRC, An Up-To-Date IRC Client for eComStation
--Steven Douglas Taylor
How To Download YouTube Videos To Your Computer
From the Editor: A Look Back, and a Vision Ahead!
Well, we are here, the end of 2006! This is our fifth issue! We have survived one whole year (smile)! It hasn't been easy to get out a complete eZine each quarter, especially with the lack of articles. But we have managed to publish each quarter! I want to extend a big THANK-YOU, to all those who have put forth the effort and contributed articles over the last year! We couldn't have done it without the support of the members of the OS2eCS Organization and others in the community. This issue is the biggest and I believe the best yet! We have re-done our layout, graphics, and improved other aspects. If you would like to see additional improvements, please contact us and let us know how we can improve. In the coming year (in January) we will announce the date and time of the on-line (live via IRC) drawing of prizes for this years eZine author awards. In the coming year we have many things planned, one of which is to publish our first printed magazine. Starting with this issue, we have a new publishing schedule. We are planning to move to a content management system. This will streamline the publication of new eZines and allow translation into other languages. Once implemented we will be able to add search and other features. We hope to bring on-board a new web master and an assistant editor, to the team at the OS2eCS Organization. I will stay on as a senior editor.
Well its official, end of support (By IBM) for OS/2 is over (unless you have a special contract with IBM)! Now once again we will see the mainstream IT press issue a flurry of articles, gleefully announcing, yet again the "Death of OS/2". It's a ritual for them. If they weren't so blind-sighted from their computer screens--running whatever is the latest rehash of code out of Redmond, powered by a Super Computer struggling to process keystrokes, on a bloated, over-priced typewriter...perhaps they would see the flurry of activity and life in the OS/2 world?
In the past year we have also seen much hype in the IT press about the coming Windows Vista, but as usual it has been more hype than reality. OS/2 Warp v4, was the first operating system to include integrated voice-recognition in the base OS (1996). Ten years latter, Microsoft is still trying to get their voice recognition to work as is seen in the video below (requires Flash 7 Plug-in, FireFox v2 doesn't play sound, works well with SeaMonkey and Mozilla):
eComStation has been delivering an option for voice-recognition that is integrated into the WorkPlace shell, since v1.0 in 2000.
Over the past year we have seen a lot of developments with eComStation and OS/2 software. Let's recap some of the highlights.
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