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After a long preparation and implementation phase, Anti-Aliasing is available and will be activated for OOo 3.1 in all Applications and on all Systems. This was one of the most voted issues on OOo. Since pictures say more than words, first an example what looks different in OOo 3.1:
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The first edition of the OOo3 Impress Guide is now available. Individual chapters and a compiled book are on the Documentation Project website (PDF).
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Developer Snapshot build OOo-Dev OOO310_m1 which installs as OOo-DEV 3.1 has been uploaded to the mirror network.If you find severe issues within this build please file them to OpenOffice.org’s bug tracking system IssueTracker.Please use the following linkhttp://download.openoffice.org/680/index.htmlPackages are also (Read More)
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RedOffice is one of the “distros” of OpenOffice.org, along with Go-OOo, Lotus Symphony, OxygenOffice, NeoOffice, EuroOffice, and probably some others.RedOffice is developed by a company in Beijing and specifically addresses the Chinese-language market.More than just translating and cloning OOo, however, RedOffice has introd (Read More)
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Dmitri Popov has released under the GNU FDL license a new guide to using the Sun Report Builder extension for OOo, which is available both as a free PDF download and as a paperback from Lulu.
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Renaissance Project has the objective of revamping OpenOffice.org user interface in order to make it more attractive for the ordinary user, who is accustomed to the bells and whistles of Microsoft and Apple operating systems and prioritizes look and feel over features. I prefer a different approach, but the majority is alwa (Read More)
Mudville Gazette
OpenOffice.org 3.0 has been a huge success, and this has raised the awareness of the open source office suite to an unprecedented level. In Europe, where OOo was already quite popular, especially in France, Germany and Italy, download numbers have reached new records. In Italy, they are now higher than the number of new PCs (Read More)
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I’m writing this post on my Nokia E71 with Wavelog. It’s the first post of this kind, but I hope that the possibility of blogging from mobile will help me in writing more frequently than during the last few months (for many reasons: work, family, etcetera). Let’s hope for the better.Technorati Tags: mobile (Read More)
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The manual, edited by OOoAuthors, it’s available at Lulu. It’s over 500 pages, and costs only 20 bucks.
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Interesting reading from the blog of George F. Colony, Forrester’s CEO.
1) Tech will be down, but not out. 2001-2003 was a tech depression. Spending stopped, projects were canceled, excess inventory flooded the market destroying pricing. Cisco lost half a trillion dollars of market cap. Why? Tech had a long way to fall. (Read More)
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The Italian OOo Conference will happen next Friday, October 3, in Bolzano, one of the geographical areas where open source software is most widely adopted, with solutions in place in the Italian schools - the region is officially bilingual: German and Italian - and in several offices of the public administration.It is going (Read More)
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I don’t like the BlackBerry, but I’m happy to know that the device will support ODF starting from the second quarter of 2009.
[Click to read the entire story: BlackBerry to Support OpenDocument Format - ComputerworldUK]
Technorati Tags: ODF, open, source. (Read More)
Submitted by Italovignoli
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Faced with growing threats of free and open source software projects, Microsoft removed OpenOffice.org web site from its search engine results yesterday. Search terms “Open Office” and “OpenOffice.org” returned similar web sites, …, but not what we were looking for. Even advanced query, “ (Read More)
: hahaha, wow Microsoft has got some serious ballz to do something like that. Especially if they want users to consider their product over Google, you really don't want you hand to get caught in the cookie jar like that.
Submitted by Italovignoli
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Unfortunately, I haven’t had enough time to elucubrate about what I’ve seen and heard in Beijing. Therefore, this is going to be a random collection of thoughts. Maybe, in the future I will have the time to add some comments.Let’s start with a big thank to the organization. Kudos to everyone. The closing c (Read More)