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Open-Source Technology in Emerging Markets
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| Simon Phipps, chief open source officer at Sun Microsystems, explains why
| Brazil and South Africa are among the leaders in open-source technology.
| Polya Lesova reports.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/video/asset/open-source-technology-emerging-markets/A900B29D-EE88-461E-849F-C62D49D69639?dist=msrv_1
OpenOffice gets Non-linear Solver
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| Friday saw the release of a new extension to the OpenOffice.org Calc
| spreadsheet which adds two new solver mechanisms. The new solver extension
| complements the linear solver component built into Calc in OpenOffice.org 3.
| A solver allows a user to calculate optimum values given a function and
| constraints.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/OpenOffice-gets-Non-linear-Solver--/news/112910
Recent:
Project Renaissance: OpenOffice.org User Survey 2009 Now Online
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| The OpenOffice.org User Survey (OOoUS) 2009 is online since February 20,
| 2009. The survey is available in English, German, Spanish, Frensh and
| Chinese. It replaces the OOoUS 2008.
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http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/project_renaissance_openoffice_org_user
Openoffice.org: 7 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do
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| Even though OpenOffice.org - which is, yes, an application suite, not just a
| Web site - can’t do everything Office can, it can do a lot, and it has some
| of its own tricks that even Office can’t manage. Here are a few that may not
| be obvious, as well as a few ways to make OpenOffice.org less annoying out of
| the box.
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http://www.italovignoli.org/2009/02/openofficeorg-7-things-you-didnt-know-you-could-do/
Finally: Anti Aliasing is done for OOo 3.1!
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| Fast enough methods for Anti-Aliasing on all systems had to be evaluated. All
| this had to be done in a compatible manner, migrating the 'living' office
| over that time. All in all, about 500.000 lines of code were
| changed/rewritten (CWSes aw024, aw033, aw059). Doesn't sound like a dead
| project, does it? If You are interested in more details, You may follow the
| task's description and its discussions and links.
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http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/finally_anti_aliasing_is_done
Heads up for users of bidirectional and CTL text
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| OpenOffice.org 3.1 will have quite a lot of improvements. Especially advances
| in the internationalization (I18N) infrastructure are very important in a
| product with over a hundred localizations (L10N). OOo is used all over the
| world by millions of users and we really want to provide the office
| productivity suite of choice for everyone.statcounter
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http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/heads_up_for_users_of
OpenOffice 3.0.1 Released
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| The OpenOffice.org project team have released OpenOffice 3.0.1 to the general
| public. Version 3.0.1 for Windows was leaked early by FileHippo on Monday,
| but now is officially available for download from the OpenOffice.org website
| and its mirrors. The new release of the open source office suite includes
| several bug fixes to repair some of the more major issues, such as fixing
| when auto-recovery does not recover the previously auto-saved document
| version, but the last one which was regularly saved, along with other smaller
| fixes.
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http://www.heise-online.co.uk/open/OpenOffice-3-0-1-Released--/news/112504
New Chart features in OpenOffice.org 3.1
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| Interested in the new Chart features that will be available in OOo 3.1? Have
| a look...
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http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_chart_features_in_openoffice1
Making menus a little nicer
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| So now that code freeze for 3.1 is almost upon us, work for 3.2 begins. As a
| first little step I looked through some old issues and noticed Issues 42227
| and 48965 which I must admit went a little under in the load of my intray.
| The problem described in there is basically an aesthetic one: currently menus
| reserve two "columns" for checkmarks and item images, because menu items can
| be checked as well as have an image and both should be reflected of course in
| the display. But this creates a large area where most of the time nothing
| appears on the left of the menu, making the menu look clunkier than
| necessary.
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http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/making_menus_a_little_nicer
New Features in OpenOffice.org 3.1, an Early Look
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| OpenOffice.org 3.1 is 65 days away, and developers are finishing up more than
| 1000 issues targeted for this Microsoft-Office-killer packing an army of new
| features, enhancements, and bug fixes.
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http://www.oooninja.com/2009/01/openofficeorg-31-new-features.html
Proofreading in OpenOffice.org
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| Grammar checking is a feature that was missed in OpenOffice.org for quite
| some time. Grammar checking software for several languages is available,
| either as standalone tools or integrated into other programs. I prefer the
| name “proofreading” for this kind of software, as usually these programs go
| beyond checking grammar. Some offer style checking, others may check text
| against abstract rules. In general the task for this kind of software is to
| check and improve text regarding anything else than simple spell checking
| (though it makes sense to include spell checking into the process as this
| helps to analyze the text).
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http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/proofreading_in_openoffice_org
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