State of independence.Sun and IBM are expected to announce the Open Document Format Toolkit Union, an open-source project aimed at making it easier for developers to use ODF....
Earlier today, Download Squad reported that, although the official release isn’t until Monday, the new version 3.0 of the free and open source OpenOffice.org 3.0 suite of productivity applications is already available for download. OpenOffice is a free competitor to Microsoft Office and generally works well with Microsoft Office files, with some exceptions. We covered the ways that you can get the Windows and Linux versions early over on OStatic. You can also now get the Mac version for free. Here’s how to get it, whichever platform you’re on. The Mac version of OpenOffice 3.0 is found four links down...
Valhalla rumoured to favour open source...Thirteen members of Norway's International Standards Organisation (ISO) body, Standard Norway, have resigned over the country's approval for the controversial Microsoft OOXML document format....
Filed under: Business, Windows, Macintosh, Office, Productivity, Web services, Freeware Thanks Microsoft. No seriously, thanks. As far as I can tell, the new .docx default document format in MS Word 2007 and 2008 (for Mac) does nothing to make my life easier, but has certainly made it more of a pain. Although my office predominantly uses Office 2003, our users are starting to receive documents saved in the newer .docx format, and are unable to open or edit them. Since I happen to be running Office 2007 and 2008 on my machine (it's a Mac with VMWare Fusion for running...
A version of the open source productivity suite OpenOffice.org version 3.0 is now out in a release candidate offering. While the most recent stable version is recommended for primary use at this point, and the release candidate is primarily for testing, some web workers who use this suite as a Microsoft alternative may want to try this pre-release version out. I’m starting to use it for testing purposes, and have appreciated the new document conversion features and suport. An open source suite should reach out to every document format, and do so easily. You can get the test suite for...
Say you got tons of Excel sheets, PowerPoint presentations and Word documents on your computer that were written in Office XP or 2003. How do you convert all these files to the new Office 2007 format. One option is that you open all of them in the associated Office program and manually save them in the newer (docx, xlsx or pptx) format. Or follow these steps and convert all documents in one go. Step 1: Download Migration Manager kit and extract it into a new folder - say: c:\office. Step 2: Download and install the Office Pack - this...
Firefox only (Windows/Mac/Linux): The Send to Google Docs Firefox extension adds an entry to your right-click menu to send supported filetypes directly to Google Docs. The new entry is context sensitive, so it only appears when you right click supported filetypes, which include Word docs, PDFs, PowerPoint, Excel, and every Open Document format. You've been able to open Gmail attachments in Google Docs for quite a while now, but this extension bridges the gap and makes Google Docs that much more of a viable, web-based Microsoft Office replacement. Send to Google Docs is free, works wherever Firefox does. Read any...
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Working on a small feedly+salesforce.com integration for a demo scheduled at the end of this week. Going back into the enterprise world for a few day. I thought I would document the experience in case others are looking at taking the jump. Step 1: Getting a free developer account. You can get one here: http://wiki.apexdevnet.com/events/regular/registration.php?d=70130000000DJmf. The registration process is straight forward. Step 2: Get familiar with Salesforce.com as a user At the first glance, Salesforce = a rich schema and a set of tabs for performing operations on that schema. The account comes with a default org and some sample...
