SoftMaker are a small German developing company that specialize in making Office Suite apps. They’re about ready to release a new port of their SoftMaker Office, and finally Android is going to get a decent Office Suite. Right now I’m just barely restraining myself from doing a dance for joy. It might sound rude, but [...]
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Libre Office 3.3 now available for download
January 27th, 2011 · No Comments · software news
Earlier this week The Document Foundation announced the first stable release of Libre Office. As you might recall, TDF started as a spin off of Open Office last year when a number of developers, who could no longer comfortably work with Sun, left the OO project to form TDF. Libre Office has since picked up [...]
Google Ebookstore to sell ebooks from the US Government Printing Office – Um, what?
December 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · ebookstore news, opinion
The GPO announced today that they will be partnering with Google to sell government documents through the Google eBookstore. The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and Google have entered a partnership to offer the public, for the first time, federal government titles in an e-book format. The titles will appear on Google’s recently launched Google [...]
Tags:ebooks·ebookstore·google·government·office·printing·sell·um
Open Office gets new name & home – LibreOffice
November 26th, 2010 · No Comments · ebook tools, press release
This story is actually a couple weeks old, but I think it’s important. The Document Foundation have officially announced the v3.3 beta release of LibreOffice,the next generation of Open Office. The Document Foundation is about documents and the associated software is pivotal to create, exchange, modify, share and print documents”, says Thorsten Behrens, a software [...]
Tags:home·libreoffice·office·open
Kobo opens NYC office
August 30th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
From the Kobo blog: New York, Meet Kobo… With Kobo and US publishers, it’s been a long-distance relationship. Lots of planes, a river of email, plenty of phone and Skype. And like all long-distance relationships, it starts to get a little tired. Another meal at the airport. You wonder if they’re seeing someone else. You [...]
MS Mobile Office 2010 now available as a free upgrade
May 12th, 2010 · No Comments · software news
Microsoft officially announced Office 2010 today, and the Mobile version can be had for free.From the press release: Work virtually anywhere with Microsoft Office Web Apps, the online companions to Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel and OneNote. Along with easy access to documents from virtually anywhere, Web Apps help preserve the look and feel of a [...]
Ribbon Hero – a great training tool for Office 2007
May 11th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
I just came across this nifty game that helps you get used to the new ribbon menus in MS Office 2007. I so wish they had released it back in 2007. I might not have switched to Open Office. Ribbon Hero via O’Reilly Radar
Microsoft to release free online version of Office
May 10th, 2010 · No Comments · software news
The Seattle Times is reporting: … Google’s software is unlikely to depose Office, especially among heavy business users who write reports, draw up corporate budgets and put together sales presentations. But Office 2010 does represent a slow tipping of the entire technology industry, from a PC world Microsoft long has dominated to a cloud-computing world, [...]
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