WorldLabel.com on AuthorSupportTool
WorldLabel.com’s blog describes a new OpenOffice.org Extension in Dmitri Popov’s post “Turbocharge OpenOffice.org Writer with AuthorSupportTool.” The AuthorSupportTool (AST) extension… dramatically...
View ArticleUX Blog on Prototyping Strategies
Christoph Noack writes about user experience prototyping strategies, based on a presentation he attended at the CHI conference a few weeks ago. He covers the importance, in wireframing, of capturing...
View ArticleLibreOffice Begins!
LibreOffice was announced a few short weeks ago, and time has flown by since then, as community members work feverishly to build out the project infrastructure for the future. Late last week, Florian...
View ArticleFrance’s Gendarmerie Ubuntu Case Study
The French Gendarmerie (national police force) has been gradually moving its software infrastructure to open source over the past several years, starting with the adoption of OpenOffice.org on Windows,...
View ArticleTDF Previews Future Developments
Earlier this week, The Document Foundation released an email titled “The Document Foundation Offers a Preview of Future Product and Technology Developments.” Here are its full contents: The Document...
View ArticleLibreOffice Paper Plane
Based on recent LibreOffice discussions regarding a new logo and associated marketing/promotional opportunities, I’ve created the following paper airplane template. This is a draft, so please download...
View ArticleLibreOffice Paper Plane Update
I’ve made a major update to the LibreOffice Paper Plane design, which you can download here: LibreOffice Paper Plane 2 (ODG) or PDF. The folding instructions are now included within the ODG file on a...
View ArticleOpen Source Progresses in German and Finnish Cities
Recent encouraging news comes from OSOR by way of Freiburg, Germany and Helsinki, Finland. Freiburg has found that migrating to OpenOffice.org for its standard office software package reduced its cost...
View ArticleCan Montreal Become an Open Source Startup Hub?
Evan Prodromou asks, “Can Montreal Become an Open Source Startup Hub?” “Montreal has the opportunity to be the best ecosystem in the world for Open Source software startups. We’ve got a good cadre of...
View ArticleWill Tablets Replace PCs?
The iPad and forthcoming tablets from Android (and perhaps WebOS) are likely to displace PCs, at least in the developing world where the installed base of either is currently very low. The first...
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