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Manage Google Docs files from the command line with GDataCopier
You might wonder why anyone would want to manage Google Docs files using the terminal, but a tool that lets you fetch and upload documents from the command line has its practical uses. For example, it’s much faster to upload a document to Google Docs by running a single command than using Google Docs’ Web [...]
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OPENOFFICE.ORG 3.0 RELEASED
A new splash screen upon launch
Support for sharing Excel workbooks
Support for Excel sheets with up to 1024 columns
A solver component for solving optimization problems
Better polished crop and drawing tools
The display of multiple Writer pages while editing
Inclusion of Office commenting / change tracking in the document margin
Some support for Visual Basic macros
Enhanced support for [...]
30 Similarities between Microsoft Office PowerPoint and OpenOffice.org Impress
by Solveig Haugland, June 2008
This is another article in my series showing the similarities
between OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office (pre-Office 2007).
Using a new product requires some re-learning. That’s unavoidable. But you rarely have to learn an entirely new set of skills – it’s just that the new stuff sticks out at us. This article is to [...]
Geneva schools switch to Open Source completely
About 70,000 students and their 7,000 teachers in the Geneva school district will gradually be moving to Open Source.
“Moving to a complete Open Source system will cut the IT costs by a third.”
The decision to move to Open Source was taken by the Geneva Public School District (Département de l’Instruction Publique Genevois (DIP) in March [...]
