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- Super Talent to bundle free Ubuntu OS and OpenOffice with every MasterDrive SSD
- Flash storage maker Super Talent will bundle Ubuntu Desktop Editon and OpenOffice with each MasterDrive solid state drive it sells July 1 through September 30, 2008. by Selena Frye
- Blog posts 2008-07-03
- Choosing a free alternative to Microsoft Office
- Once upon a time, if you were using software that you had acquired free, you were a pirate and doing something wrong. Those days are gone forever as people have begun to embrace a new concept. Free is good. And it's legal. While this is not a...
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- New preloaded Linux computers for sale now at Sears and Wal-Mart
- The success of the $199 Everex gOS-based desktop at Wal-Mart has spurred two more releases of low-end, Linux-based computers at two retail giants. Wal-Mart's follow-up to the Everex is the $399 gOS-based Cloudbook laptop -- sporting Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google News, Google Maps, YouTube, Firefox, Skype, Facebook and...
- Blog posts 2008-01-18
- Ultramobile PC for $399 from Everex
- Towards the end of this month, Everex, the maker of the $199 gPC, will be launching the $399 ultramobile PC called Cloudbook. An excerpt from ZDnet: The Cloudbook is designed for Internet usage, not for heavy duty graphics applications. Like the gPC, it will come with...
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- Use MD5 hashes to verify software downloads
- Professor Ronald Rivest of MIT created the MD5 cryptographic hash function in 1991 to replace the earlier MD4 algorithm. It employs a 128-bit hash value, typically expressed as a 32-character hexadecimal number. For instance, an MD5 hash generated from an OpenOffice.org download (v2.3.0 for Win32, English language) looks...
- Blog posts 2007-12-05
- Free software: Can it be as good as products you pay for?
- At home, on a lowly field engineer's income, I have to make the most of free software. OpenOffice is a good package for general home usage, AVG AntiVirus consistently outperforms Norton, and IOBit's Advanced Windows Care and SmartDefrag keep my laptop running smoothly. The open-source movement seems to go...
- Blog posts 2007-11-21
- OpenOffice & Word 2007
- Anybody know how to open a Word 2007 file (.docx) using openoffice?I've googled but I can only seem to find how to access when using linux, im on Win XP, anyone know?Thankshmmno. they don't support it.but you can download the MS Word Viewer.http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=95E24C87-8732-48D5-8689-AB826E7B8FDF&displaylang=enBug StatusHello,They do have a bug report for...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-12
- Using OpenOffice to view XML file in Internet Explorer
- Hi everyone,We need to be able to read reports which are generated from our client's website. The report is generated on an aspx page in Excel XML format and by default it opens in Excel 2000 which is on our PC within an IE browser window to view the report....
- Discussion threads 2007-11-07
- Taking a look at IBM Lotus Symphony Presentations
- Continuing with my first-look series covering the IBM Lotus Symphony office suite, I've created a gallery covering the slideshow application, Symphony Presentations. (I covered Symphony Documents in the first gallery and Symphony Spreadsheets in the second gallery.) As you'll discover, while Symphony Presentations contains everything you will...
- Blog posts 2007-11-06
- SolutionBase: KWord and AbiWord offer word processor alternatives for Linux users
- Sometimes individual office application alternatives are better suited for the actual job than the mighty giants. In these instances, you can find word processors not so insistent upon gulping up massive amounts of memory, space, or budget; you might even find those "little apps that could" do their job just...
- Technical articles 2007-11-01
- Taking a look at IBM Lotus Symphony Documents
- A long time ago, in a world of DOS-based computers, a company called Lotus Development Corporation decided to capitalize on the success of its groundbreaking Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet application with a new integrated application suite called Symphony. In 1995, IBM purchased Lotus to get control of Notes (which Lotus had...
- Blog posts 2007-10-23
- Laptop Dilemma
- Last November the great guy I live with bought me a beautiful HP laptop for Christmas. My Dell was dying a slow lingering death and I was in need. Late last month the DVD drive bit the dust. It simply doesn't work no more. So I...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-19
- Tic-Tac-Toe Game (Take a look at OpenOffice game Easter Eggs)
- Full of malarkyJust like a programmer...can perfectly express themselves in other languages except English. What "exactly" do you type in the cells to get the Easter Egg games to run? I tried cut and paste from the explanation and it doesn't work...>:(IT worksThey work, but it would be...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-17
- Take a look at OpenOffice game Easter Eggs
- You can find a couple of hidden Easter Eggs in OpenOffice.org 2. by Greg Shultz
- Image galleries 2007-10-15
- Thunderbird slated to compete with Microsoft Outlook
- Ryan over at CyberNet wrote a new piece over the weekend, where he questioned the possibility of Thunderbird to compete against Microsoft's Outlook. The saga revolves around a presentation titled "OpenOffice.org 3.0 and Beyond" that was given on September 19 at the OpenOffice 2007 Conference. The...
- Blog posts 2007-10-15
- Cross-platform OpenOffice bug discovered
- NeoOffice 2.2.1 users have a patch availableMac users of NeoOffice 2.2.1, an Aqua port of OpenOffice should be aware that the developers there have already have a test patch available to close this hole and this will be included in the upcoming Patch 2 release.See this post:http://trinity.neooffice.org/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=37060#37060Trust this helps.
- Discussion threads 2007-10-04
- NeoOffice for the Mac: The Right Tool for the Job?
- "Compatability isn't perfect"That's an understatement. NeoOffice is great if you can a ensure all users at an office are using it, or b you don't have to worry about collaborating with anyone else.But it really fails badly when you try to share documents back and forth with any leel...
- Discussion threads 2007-10-02
- Ease of use: But for who?
- Over the weekend I was writing an article for TechRepublic about two alternative Linux word processors (Abiword and KWord.) As I was writing this article, I discovered something that might lend a hand to not only the developers of those tools but to Linux developers in general. This discovery is...
- Blog posts 2007-10-01
- Cross-platform OpenOffice bug discovered
- In a somber reminder that security vulnerabilities can strike anywhere, security experts have discovered a cross-platform vulnerability in OpenOffice.org that could allow remote code execution on Windows, Linux, and MacOS-based computers. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers in iDefense, who found that OpenOffice version 2.0.4 and earlier...
- Blog posts 2007-09-28
- Performing common Word tasks in OpenOffice.org 2.0's Writer
- Switching from one word processor can mean learning a whole new set of commands and ways of doing things. The creators of OpenOffice tried hard to make Writer work and act just like Microsoft Word. Greg Shultz shows how it works. by Greg Shultz
- Image galleries 2007-09-19
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