With the new release of the OpenOffice.org free application suite, the use of extensions enhancing the capabilities of the suite is easier than ever. As a matter of fact, the use of extensions is almost required in version 3.0 as the dictionaries and other linguistic aspects of the suite are handled via extensions. ...
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By now, most of the world knows that the new version of Openoffice.org, the free office application suite, is out. Earlier, servers at openoffice.org were busy serving the various choices for win, linux, and Mac OS X (and at some point, they were so slow with incoming traffic). This is the first openoffice version...
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I have seen an increase in spam comments recently that is almost unprecedented. I have been inundated by “xqwefasd sdfiewprsadf dafasfd” one-line comments which appear in specific posts in this blog (basically, the most popular posts). Although akismet does an outstanding job of killing these comments, some do make it through and...
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This week saw the release of Google chrome, the new browser developed at Google labs. Touted as fast (faster than other browsers), convenient etc, the browser has already staked out a sizable chunk of the web market. As for this corner of cyberspace (and cyber market), here are the stats as reported...
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Image via Wikipedia From the pages of this blog I have written about how to open a docx (office 2007) file in openoffice. This happens frequently with a client, a customer, a colleague who just updated (or was forced to update) to the newest version of Microsoft’s Office suite. And many readers...
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After a long period of inactivity, we are back in force with some changes, cosmetic and content-related ones. First, a new look for this blog.  The 3-column digg-like seems better than the more austere two-column (one sidebar) contempt used before.  The picture above is from the town of Kalamata and was taken in late April...
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