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| OASIS - Open Document Format |
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| posted in [ Desktop ] by JJan on Sun, Apr 02 @ 06:13 PM |
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The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) is a non-profit, international consortium concerned with the development, convergence, and adoption of e-business standards. One of these is the OpenDocument Format for text documents (.odt), spreadsheets (.ods), presentations (.odp), graphics (.odg) and databases (.odb). |
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| Connecting OpenOffice and MySQL |
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| posted in [ Desktop ] by JJan on Sat, Jul 23 @ 01:39 PM |
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Once you've told the database wizard in your OpenOffice how to connect to your MySQL database, you can produce realtime reports in office formats too. Placing this type of data exchange in the hands of the average office user is good news for the (open standard) information age. |
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| Google starts homepage personalisation |
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| posted in [ Desktop ] by JJan on Wed, Jun 15 @ 10:48 PM |
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Google introduced some opt-in features which allows you to customize your Google (home, start) search page. Marketeers say the Web Portal Market[tm] might be in for a major shift!!! WTH'5 G01NG 0N?!?1shift!?!one!1?!??! As usual, this development meets both positive and negative press, and help is here. |
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| Interview with OpenOffice.org staff |
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| posted in [ Desktop ] by JJan on Sun, May 08 @ 12:57 AM |
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OpenOffice.org is the most comprehensive open source office productivity suite available. Into its fifth year of existence, the project is set to release its next version, OpenOffice.org 2.0, with a major overhaul.  |
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| OpenOffice.org 1.1 available |
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| posted in [ Desktop ] by JJan on Wed, Oct 01 @ 06:58 PM |
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OpenOffice.org announces the availability of the new version of its award-winning office suite, OpenOffice.org 1.1, for Windows (98/ME/NT/2000/XP), Linux (x86 & PowerPC), and Solaris Operating System (SPARC platform edition)... |
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The KDE developers have released a new version of KDE. |
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| posted in [ Desktop ] by JJan on Fri, Aug 23 @ 01:44 AM |
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GKrellM is a single process stack of system monitors which supports applying themes to match its appearance to your window manager, Gtk, or any other theme. |
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| Nautilus - GNOME file manager |
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| posted in [ Desktop ] by JJan on Thu, Aug 08 @ 01:38 AM |
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Nautilus, the official file manager for the GNOME desktop, is designed to be primarly a file manager, but there are support for web and file viewing too. |
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| GNOME 2.0 has been released |
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| posted in [ Desktop ] by JJan on Thu, Jun 27 @ 02:35 AM |
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