I’m not sure what made them choose the name they did, but if you need to read OpenOffice.org (OOo) files in a Windows or Linux environment and don’t want to install OOo, then Visioo-writer is what you need.
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Although it’s probably not going anywhere, it’s interesting to see that 3 States in the USA have introduced resolutions to have George Bush impeached by the House of Representatives. The States are California, Illinois and Vermont, which together represent some 50 million American voters. The resolutions are not getting much coverage in the traditional . . . → Read More: Movement to impeach Bush If you suspect that a mail from your bank, PayPal or EBay (to name some of the more common vehicles for these activities) may not be the genuine article, you can check at antiphishing.org or, of course, report a suspected phishing or pharming attempt. The website also provides a good definition of both terms, . . . → Read More: How to identify phishing and pharming Ruth has been keeping me busy photographing her dyeing and optimising the images for her blog and for sending to the Quilt University recently. She’s picked up enough HTML to be able to format her posts on her own now, so I’m aiming to teach her a bit about Photoshop next I also . . . → Read More: Too busy If you read the comments to my previous post, you’ll have seen that Volker invited us round to look at the Sonos set-up which he’s testing at the moment. A demo really is the best way to appreciate the kit, the hand controller is a little larger than an iPod and makes it easy . . . → Read More: The ultimate WAF (2) The Independent reports that English is approaching the million-word milestone. Now, the largest edition of Duden (the authoritive German language dictionary) contains about 200 000 words, and in French there are between 25 000 and 100 000 words, depending on who you listen to. The million word total comes from an American consultancy called . . . → Read More: Misoverestimated? The only way to load a virus onto a Mac is supposed to be to trick the user into agreeing to install the malware with root or admin priviledges. So when the following window popped up during an update to Adobe Bridge after installing Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0, I was unsure whether I should . . . → Read More: Poor practice With some reluctance, I have to admit that Volker is almost certainly right to say that the Sonos music system that he’s been testing recently has an excellent WAF (wife acceptance factor): I pay a lot of attention to the way she adopts technology. There are a number of things that clicked immediately. One . . . → Read More: The ultimate WAF Mission was completed in Iraq three years ago this May. Now Bush feels it is time to take out Iran and save it from itself, according to the New Yorker: A government consultant with close ties to the civilian leadership in the Pentagon said that Bush was “absolutely convinced that Iran is going to . . . → Read More: Bush planning preemptive strike to “save” Iran Nine thousand years ago, people were having their teeth drilled and filled. Remains found in Pakistan show that in one case, a person had had three teeth filled, another had two holes drilled in the same tooth. And the practice spanned a period of at least 1500 years. |
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