The article in Wired was pretty much clear: Microsoft OFfice 2003 service pack 3 will drop support for older microsoft office formats.  In other words, when the service pack 3 is installed, older files such as powerpoint before office 97, lotus and quattro files, word and excel files will not open by default and...
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While almost everyone I know was resting on Christmas day after a hearty meal, I took a brief excursion from Kalamata to Zevgolatio. On the way back, I shot some pretty pictures and I plan to write more about them in future posts. For the time being, here is a preview of...
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The most recent word from the friendly folks at google is the new picasa 2.7 preview for linux. Update: This version includes things that the 2.5 version did not. My preferred ones are: better raw support, better import capabilities and picasaweb album uploads. Also noted this version (albeit a preview one) is available as...
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I gave myself an early Christmas gift the other day. A bunch of new moleskines to keep me going. You can see them all in this picture: Pictured, two large ruled notebooks (one with soft, the other with hard cover), a pocket, ruled notebook (soft cover), a weekly planner (hard cover). Also,...
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In an earlier posting, I wrote about a filter to open docx files in open office. Unfortunately, this is half the story in this world of digital, paperless office. What happens in the case of Excel 2007 files? Now, these files have an extension of xlsx. Note the slight difference from the typical...
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In an earlier posting, I wrote about a filter to open docx files in open office. Unfortunately, this is half the story in this world of digital, paperless office. What happens in the case of Excel 2007 files? Now, these files have an extension of xlsx. Note the slight difference from the typical...
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