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eLiberatica second edition,
30th - 31st May 2008 (Friday-Saturday), World Trade Center, Romania
Following the huge public success the first edition of eLiberatica gained in 2007, the second edition will continue in the same tradition: to gather community and business leaders around the world to talk about the hottest Open and Free Technologies topics.
eLiberatica has its unique […]
Written by cdriga on April 10th, 2008 with no comments.
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The OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon) is the annual meeting of the
international OpenOffice.org Community. It is the premier event for anyone
interested in or working with OpenOffice.org. OOoCon is where
representatives of all the community projects meet to celebrate and learn
from the achievements of the past twelve months, and discuss how to meet
the challenges of the next twelve.
This year […]
Written by cdriga on February 15th, 2008 with no comments.
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ITwire brings up the latest figures from French based Internet traffic analyst XiTiMonitor showing that during 2007 Internet Explorer has lost a significant market share in favor of the open source browser Mozilla Firefox. This is great news and it completes the image of an Open Source 2007 year.
You can read the whole article which […]
Written by cdriga on January 29th, 2008 with no comments.
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The last two weeks have seen two new communication channels opened by OpenOffice.org the project. First of them is the OpenOffice.org Marketing Project’s Blog, which aims at sharing news and stories related to OpenOffice.org software and community promotion, and the second one is the OpenOffice.org Marketing Planet, the page that aggregates posts from the […]
Written by cdriga on January 29th, 2008 with no comments.
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Two days ago I discovered an inspiring blog posting on OpenOffice.org which deserves mentioning as it seems to me genuinely true and sincere. This blog (The Kratzers) has a post dated January 27th 2008 titled: Thank You, OpenOffice.
The author - a satisfied Microsoft Office user - expresses his pleasant surprise about OpenOffice.org.
He outlines the fact […]
Written by cdriga on January 29th, 2008 with no comments.
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Well, not long ago, a friend of mine complained that MySQL, the database he is using in his programming, started making changes in their licensing schemes and he was afraid that at some point it will not be free anymore.
Today I brought this news to my friend and I surely made him happy: MySQL has […]
Written by cdriga on January 17th, 2008 with no comments.
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This tutorial shows you how to extract the uncompressed images from a Microsoft Word Document using OpenOffice.org free office suite. You can even extract embedded cliparts (like WMF files) or other vector based graphics embedded in the document, in their original format.
This tutorial is inspired by How to extract the images from a .doc […]
Written by cdriga on November 4th, 2007 with 3 comments.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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