SolidOffice (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Mail merge has been a pain for some friends of mine using OpenOffice.org within their university administrative department, so I’ve been on the hunt for ways to make it easier. Solveig covers OpenOffice 2.x mail merge in an article from 2006 (which I’ve mentioned before), but they still have a few problems with editing the [...]
Latest Secunia Security Advisories (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
A vulnerability has been reported in OpenOffice, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system. Be sure to check if your system is missing security updates or have insecure applications installed: http://secunia.com/software_inspector/ Feature Overview - The Secunia Software Inspector: * Detects insecure versions of applications installed * Verifies that all Microsoft...
Softpedia - Latest Mac software (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
OpenOffice add-on that provides basic work with Subversion
Fedora Planet (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Well now the GLUG-NITH server aka Razorblade serves up Openoffice mirror for /stable and /developer here. Will post more details later. I have been bogged down by some not so niceties of Google Summer of Code 2008 procedures.
Softpedia - Latest Mac software (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
Open source document generation server based on OpenOffice
Tech-Recipes.com (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
If you're running the recent version of OpenOffice and feel like taking a break and playing then you're in luck. There's an Easter Egg that let's you play a simple game of TicTacToe against the application.
Key Words (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
It looks like OpenOffice has released a PDF Import extension. You can get it here : The PDF Import Extension allows modifying existing PDF files for which the original source files do not exist anymore. PDF documents are imported in Draw and Impress to preserve the layout and to allow basic editing. It is the perfect solution for changing dates, numbers or small portions of text. Native PDF forms are...
Softpedia - Latest Mac software (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Open source utility that allows you to import pdf files in OpenOffice
Brutal Women (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Downloading OpenOffice on a pirated wireless connection. I just don't have any interest in unplugging my hardline from my shiny desktop. But my pirated printer won't work on my Vista machine (without a lot of canoodling by the not-Boyfriend, and I haven't heard from him in three or four weeks), and my OpenOffice training schedule won't print from my laptop, so we find ourselves in this situation. Silly...
Planet Intertwingly (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
But the bottom line for foreign elements as wrappers in ODF and OOXML is that ODF allows them to be stripped out by the application while OOXML doesn't allow that; neither of course require that any particular application understands them. The bottom line for OpenOffice and Office seems to be that OpenOffice strips them (dangerously, but perhaps allowed because of bad drafting of that part of the ODF...
SolidOffice (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Tom’s Guide offers a visual tip collection for OpenOffice 2 and 3. They noticed something we have long been keeping an eye out for: the early mainstream beginning to adopt OOo. “We’ve talked up OpenOffice before in other articles, but the software is worth a closer look since more and more companies are beginning to dole it [...]
Richard's blog (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
It’s two days later and I’m close to touch typing on the asus eee and I’m enjoying the machine just as much. I did try to upgrade to openoffice 2.3.1 from 2.0 and no luck so far. As a result I’m stuck with relying on the cloud instead. One friend found the machine hard to type [...]
Tech-Recipes.com (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
If you're running the recent version of OpenOffice and feel like taking a break and playing then you're in luck. There's an Easter Egg that let's you play a simple version of Space Invaders, titled StarWars Galaxy.
TechEnclave (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
I've got Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 installed on my system. Both are Developer edition. I also have OpenOffice installed and used its OpenOffice.org base for creation of a database. Now in Visual Studio in C# I created a Windows...
SolidOffice (Free subscription) | 14/08/2008
The Open Malaysia Blog announces a major OpenOffice migration: the Malaysian state of Pahang will move all its computers to OpenOffice. “The driving force for this migration seems to be cost of proprietary software and the fear of unlicensed software. OpenOffice.org is the obvious solution to these two pressing problems (thanks, BSA!) What is good is [...]
