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 appear, even...
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Testing wordpress for iPhone. Blogging on the go!!! Update #1: With post-editing capabilities, too. Update #2 (using the macbook, not the iphone): Nice, but still you need some extra post-processing in order to add more stuff in any posting, such as related articles, more than the occasional photo etc.  Otherwise, a solid product. I.
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On August 22nd, the iphone made it to this corner of the world officially (that would be Greece). Vodafone Hellas is the official telecom carrier for Greece offering a variety of programs especially for the iphone. Following the news about its relase in other countries, vodafone had set up a notification scheme to let...
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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 from statcounter.com...
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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 have commented...
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