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Live data in your OpenOffice.org Impress slideshow presentations

Are you presenting in conferences graphical charts and figures which continuously change and you have no time to update the slides? All you need is your OpenOffice.org Impress presentation and an active Internet connection to show your audience the live figures your team or your server assembles for you back at home. The data is […]

Written by cdriga on October 31st, 2007 with 1 comment.
More articles in category: OpenOffice.org and Software you should try.

Linux makers should have Windows users in mind

When creating Linux software and when combining together Linux distributions, keep in mind the Windows user. Many if not all Linux fans would be happy to see their operating system adopted by all computer users in the world. But many tend to forget the very human nature and with this, the nature of a long-time […]

Written by cdriga on October 25th, 2007 with 3 comments.
More articles in category: OPEN SOURCE WORLD.

Is selling used microsoft office software legal?

Looking through my blog’s web statistics I noticed the other day a Google search result that brought someone to the “Get Legal. Get OpenOffice.org.” campaign page on my blog. This is the right answer I think for the question posed by this visitor to the Google search engine.
The exact question was: “Is selling used […]

Written by cdriga on October 21st, 2007 with no comments.
More articles in category: Legalese.

Microsoft is telling you that your Windows XP worths nothing.

Microsoft has listed 100 reasons to upgrade to Windows Vista and to leave Windows XP behind. Thanks Microsoft for the list. While reading the list, a Linux user will mark all those reasons and a few more others as “I already have that in my Linux installation“.
…and after marking them all, he/she will add:

“I […]

Written by cdriga on October 21st, 2007 with no comments.
More articles in category: OPEN SOURCE WORLD and Software you should try.

Office suites comparison charts

Looking for a list of office suites available on the market to include in the poll for my blog, I ran across this Office suites comparison charts page on Wikipedia. It’s quite a good place to compare software options when it comes to office suites and it also adds to the competition between the suites. […]

Written by cdriga on October 21st, 2007 with no comments.
More articles in category: General and OpenOffice.org.

Slashdot: Do OpenOffice Users Save In Microsoft Format?

A company executive from Quickoffice claims that OpenOffice.org users mostly save their documents in .DOC (Microsoft Office) file formats. Slashdot is wondering, is this true ? The Slashdot article is located here.
The question remains and would be a good one to include in the next OpenOffice.org user survey. I personally save in ODF, the OpenOffice.org’s […]

Written by cdriga on October 19th, 2007 with no comments.
More articles in category: OPEN SOURCE WORLD and OpenOffice.org.

DesktopLinux.com: 13 reasons why Linux should be on your desktop

Kim Brebach enumerates in an article in DesktopLinux.com 13 reasons why Linux should be on your desktop, I would add: even if you still have Windows installed.
The reasons in short:

Cost
Resources
Performance
No bloatware
Security
Dual booting
Installation
Reinstalling the OS
Keeping track of software
Updating software
More security
No need to defrag disks
A wealth of built-in utilities

The article is located here: http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5836989728.html.

Written by cdriga on October 18th, 2007 with no comments.
More articles in category: OPEN SOURCE WORLD and Software you should try.

Non Windows worlds - Linux stories part 1

6 years ago, I was already tired of viruses, blank screens, blue screens, malware, spyware, the need to reinstall the operating system from time to time and all sorts of other Windows goodies which for a user born in the Microsoft era consume a lot of his daily time.

I decided to investigate if there are […]

Written by cdriga on October 17th, 2007 with 1 comment.
More articles in category: OPEN SOURCE WORLD and Software you should try.

Suggest a topic

A friend of mine gave me the idea of asking readers what topics they would like to see covered in this blog. The result is this page in which you are invited to build up a wish-list of topics you are interested in. I am also adding there some topics proposals which I intend to […]

Written by cdriga on October 14th, 2007 with no comments.
More articles in category: Uncategorized.

Happy Birthday OpenOffice.org!

PRESS RELEASE:
OpenOffice.org community celebrates its 7th anniversary
104 million downloads of the open source productivity suite
Today, the open source project OpenOffice.org celebrates its 7th birthday. Founded by Sun Microsystems on October 13th, 2000, continues to experience tremendous growth. The project recently counted 104 million downloads from its website, and downloads have been increasing since the release […]

Written by cdriga on October 13th, 2007 with no comments.
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