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Productivity Sauce: Dmitri's open source blend of productive computing
Productivity Sauce: Dmitri's open source blend of productive computing

Simple OpenOffice.org-based Document Management Solution

Mar 19, 2010 7:22pm GMT

If you're toying with the idea of creating a document management solution using OpenOffice.org Base, you don't have to start from scratch. Sergio Corato, the developer of the nifty FastMailMerge extension, has released a beta version of a simple document management database built with OpenOffice.org Base. Although this is a pretty bare-bones... more »

Turn Your Wiki Pages into Web-based Presentations with S5 Plugin

Mar 15, 2010 8:18pm GMT

If you happen to use DokuWiki, you don't need to use OpenOffice.org Impress or other similar tool to create a slick presentation. Thanks to the S5 plugin, you can turn any DokuWiki page into a simple and elegant S5 presentation. To turn a wiki page into an S5 presentation, simply insert the ~~SLIDESHOW~~ command into it. Use the H1 header to... more »

Extension Watch: Turn Firefox into an Ebook Reader with EPUBReader

Mar 12, 2010 8:42pm GMT

You can use a dedicated application like FBReader or Calibre to read and manage ebooks on your machine, or you can do it without leaving the convenience of the Firefox browser courtesy of the EPUBReader extension. With this extension, you can open any ebook in the ePub format directly in the browser using the File -> Open File command. EP... more »

StrongVPN on Ubuntu: Simple VPN Solution That Works

Mar 09, 2010 8:44pm GMT

Ask any knowledgeable mobile user, and they will tell you that the best way to securely access the Internet in public places is through a VPN (virtual private network) connection. So if you enjoy sipping coffee at a local cafe while checking email and browsing the Web, a secure VPN connection is a good solution to protect the data traveling to and from your machine. Although you can go the DIY... more »

TeamTasks: Managing Tasks the TiddlyWiki Way

Mar 07, 2010 5:02pm GMT

TeamTasks is not your usual task manager. Based on TiddlyWiki, TeamTasks consists of a single self-contained HTML file, so there is nothing to install, and you can run the application on any machine as long as it has a Web browser. Unlike traditional task managers, TeamTasks stores all the settings and data in tiddlers -- small editable cont... more »

Translate Text Snippets with ASTranslator

Mar 05, 2010 8:59pm GMT

Google Translate is a really handy service for translating text fragments, but wouldn't it be nice if you could access it directly from your desktop? If the idea makes sense to you, then you'll appreciate the ASTranslator utility. Although the project's Web site is in Russian, the application's interface is in English, so you can use ASTranslator even if your Russian is a bit rusty. To install... more »

Install the Latest Versions of Firefox and Thunderbird Using Ubuntuzilla

Mar 03, 2010 7:35pm GMT

If you are running Ubuntu or any of its derivatives and you want to use the latest and greatest versions of the Firefox browser and the Thunderbird mail client, Ubuntuzilla has the solution for you. The project maintains a software repository containing the latest packages of Firefox, Thunderbird, and Seamonkey. And you install any of these packages on your system in three supremely easy steps... more »

 

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