Monthly Archives: June 2008

blackcover contest

June 18, 2008
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blackcover contest

A while ago, blackcover started a series of posts in order to find the best alternative to our favorite moleskine cahier, journal, notebook. The site has moved to a new domain, although links remain in place. Because of this, and because Rhodia has come with a new notebook, they (blackcover) run a contest to...

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Firefox 3 Download Day

June 16, 2008
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Firefox 3 Download Day

Image via Wikipedia Tomorrow Tuesday June 17th, the 3rd version of Firefox will be available to the web.  Firefox, the browser that was reborn from the ashes of Netscape and came to occupy a significant portion of market share (there is no doubt that Internet Explorer has the largest share) has reached a major...

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experimental pdf editing in openoffice 3

June 14, 2008
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experimental pdf editing in openoffice 3

An experimental extension to edit pdf documents in open office is now available at the extensions repository. It is only available for the beta version of openoffice (ie, it will not work with openoffice 2.x) and is fine if you want to manipulate small pieces of the pdf text (and the source is not...

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yet another ooffice 3.x dev snapshot available

June 14, 2008
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yet another ooffice 3.x dev snapshot available

As reported in the gullfoss a new development snapshot for the upcoming open office 3 has become available through the usual channels. In past postings, I have also mentioned that upcoming releases will be available for the amd64 platform, too, and this release is no exception. Go ahead and download and of course enjoy!...

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how I saved my p550 pda

June 13, 2008
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how I saved my p550 pda

Until the new iphone 3G that the Steve announced the other day become available, I use this small but comfy Mio P550 Pocket PC for my pda/gps needs (I am a needy person, I know). It’s very functional, and above all, it does exactly what I want a pda to do. Plus it offers...

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new dev build and 64bit too

June 6, 2008
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new dev build and 64bit too

It has just been reported at gullfoss, that there is a new dev build release of openoffice 3 (this would be developer snapshot build DEV300_m16). In addition to bringing us one step closer to the much expected OOo version 3, this dev build can be installed side by side to the “regular” OOo release,...

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