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- First look at OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta
- First look at OpenOffice.org 3.0 betaOLD NEWS: Don't expect OpenOffice to develop more perfect compatibilityI gave up on OpenOffice a long long time ago and I'm not surprised that the compatibility is still pitiful. OpenOffice's Presentation could never handle PowerPoint files properly. OpenOffice's Writer could handle simple documents,...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-09
- First look at OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta
- Since I'm testing the viability of running Ubuntu on a number of platforms, and paving the way to shift from Internet Explorer to Firefox 3.0, I might as well take a look at the viability of abandoning Microsoft Office and making the leap to OpenOffice.org. Now, I'm...
- Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Document, Launch, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Corp., Beta, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Word Processors, Office Suites, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-05-09
- OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta
- A gallery that looks at OpenOffice.org 3.0 beta. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: OpenOffice.org, Office Suites, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, oo.o, openoffice, writer, calc, impress, microsoft, office, word, excel, powerpoint
- Image galleries 2008-05-09
- Got a .edu email address? Pick up Microsoft Office Ultimate for $60!
- Got a .edu email address? Pick up Microsoft Office Ultimate for $60!Broken links galore!There are broken links at the NY Times site which have been replicated here. Congrats to both!I'm curious as to why this story isn't reporting the fact that this offer was originally set to expire 04/20/2008.The...
- Tags: Pick-up Microsoft Office Ultimate, e-mail address, OpenOffice, e-mail
- Discussion threads 2008-05-08
- OpenMedSpel (zip)
- OpenMedSpel includes over 40,000 medical spelling words that can be added to your OpenOffice.org spelling dictionary on you Windows computer. OpenMedSpel includes terms ranging from abdominis to zygomatic, which allows you to concentrate on your work instead of looking up words that are not in the basic spelling dictionary. This...
- Tags: Dictionary, e-MedTools, OpenMedSpel, OpenOffice, Microsoft Windows, Productivity, Office Suites, Software, Operating Systems
- Software downloads 2008-05-08
- Microsoft preps pay-as-you-go Office for June launch
- Microsoft preps pay-as-you-go Office for June launchPhil you are an idiotYour writing is so biased it is laughable (like 60% of the recent stuff on ZDNet)!You wrote "Microsoft's titanic struggle against Google Apps...". So, let me see, NPD says that less than .5% of people in the USA are actually...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Google Inc., Microsoft Office, titanic struggle, OpenOffice
- Discussion threads 2008-04-30
- @promt Professional Translator Multilingual (exe)
- @promt Professional 8.0 Translator Multilingual delivers fast, high-quality translation of business and technical documents, emails, web sites and more for business. English to/from French, German, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish and English to Italian translation supported; integrates with Microsoft Office and Acrobat. Automatically translates text in PDF files and web pages with...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Dictionary, PROMT, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-04-23
- @promt Expert Translator Multilingual Giant (exe)
- @promt Expert Multilingual Translator 8.0 is designed for professional translators and translation agencies. English to/from French, German, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish and English to Italian languages translation included plus general, specialized and custom dictionaries; integrates with Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Mirabilis ICQ, Acrobat, SDL Trados. It offers an extensive...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Dictionary, PROMT, Web Browsers, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Internet, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-04-23
- @promt Office Translator English-Russian (exe)
- @promt Office 8.0 Translator English-Russian is appropriate for home/small office translation use. It can be used to translate documents, web pages and ICQ messages. Software can be integrated with Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat. The new Microsoft Office 2007-style interface lets users enter new words into user dictionaries...
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., PROMT, Microsoft Office, Modems, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2008-04-23
- OpenOffice.org (Windows) (4)
- OpenOffice.org is both an open-source product and a project. The product is a multiplatform office productivity suite. It includes desktop applications such as a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a presentation manager, and a drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to those of other office suites....
- Tags: Open Source, Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-04-01
- OpenOffice.org (Mac Intel) (3)
- This office productivity suite for Mac OS X includes desktop applications such as a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation manager, and a drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to that of other office suites. OpenOffice.org also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-04-01
- Google Docs gets a facelift, adds new menu
- Google Docs gets a facelift, adds new menuI noticed that yesterday. Google Docs just keeps getting better. It reallyis fun to use software that is constantly adding little new features and getting better right before you eyes. But, I really wish they would give a little more love to the...
- Tags: Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice
- Discussion threads 2008-03-26
- SIS interfaces continue to improve
- I spent the day in training today with X2 Development Corporation, looking at course scheduling in their Aspen student information system. While we had just rolled out their SIS last year in time for student scheduling and the process went as well as could be expected (a new SIS,...
- Tags: SiS, Student Information System, AJAX, Tools & Techniques, Performance Management, OpenOffice, Servers, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- Do Microsoft users want cheap Office or Web-based Office?
- Do Microsoft users want cheap Office or Web-based Office?Price is the problemSoftware is increasingly turning into a business where you give the razor for free (software license) and you charge for the razors (support, patches).That's not longer true only for open source companies, but for traditional software companies too. ...
- Tags: Microsoft Office, cheap Office, OpenOffice, Web, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-04
- Mac productivity suites: Head to head
- Mac office suites, evaluated from the perspective of a teacher by Christopher Dawson
- Tags: screenshots, Apple, OpenOffice, Office 2008
- Image galleries 2008-03-03
- Office 2008 vs. iWork vs. NeoOffice vs. OpenOffice
- Office 2008 vs. iWork vs. NeoOffice vs. OpenOfficeHave BothI have both and the short comings are slim but there are a few items that stand out for me. In iWorks there is not a way to use an external database like Filemaker--a user is limited to importing fields only from...
- Tags: Apple iWork, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, NeoOffice
- Discussion threads 2008-03-03
- Office 2008 vs. iWork vs. NeoOffice vs. OpenOffice
- Last week, I posted a few thoughts on Apple Pages. As I noted there, one of my real goals in buying a Mac was to see if this platform really did make it easier to focus on teaching my classes, rather than on creating the electronic materials my students...
- Tags: Suite, Keynote, Apple iWork, Office 2008, NeoOffice, X11, OpenOffice, Open Source, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-03-03
- Lunch And Learn: Get Up To Speed On OpenOffice Base
- This is a prepackaged presentation designed to be given in a classroom or conference room setting to help attendees become familiar with the database component of OpenOffice - Base. Everything is ready to be used even if you don't consider yourself a public speaker. This...
- Tags: Speaker, Lunch, OpenOffice, Microsoft Outlook, Open Source, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
- Download resources 2008-03-03
- A quick word on Apple Pages
- This weekend I'll be putting together a gallery and comparison of NeoOffice, OpenOffice for the Mac, Microsoft Office 2008, and iWork. These products have been compared and debated before for their relative merits, but my concern, as with all things on my new Mac, is how easy are these...
- Tags: Apple Inc., Apple iWork, Impression, Pages, OpenOffice, Microsoft Office, Desktops, Office Suites, Software, Hardware, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-02-29
- STIQQY (rar)
- Run presentations from any USB device through any Windows PC whether they have Office installed or not. STIQQY has the complete OpenOffice suite installed, which can read and write Word, Excel & Powerpoint files just like Microsoft Office. Deploy complete workstations without changing anything in clean installations. STIQQY comes with...
- Tags: ComponentFlex, STIQQY, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, Microsoft Excel, Office Suites, Software
- Software downloads 2008-02-29
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