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What happens when you feed an ODT document created with OpenOffice to a word processor like AbiWord, KWord, or Writely? Read on to find out.

With a little help from the ODF plugin, Microsoft Office can open up documents saved in the free Open Document format. A short test reveals just how well it works.

We’ll show you a custom solution for moving spam to a separate folder and adding new spam signatures to SpamAssassin.

We’ll show you how to convert your videos to FLV format and play them from your website with FlowPlayer.