I came across an article from the Linux and Lipgloss blog not long ago covering a project called OxygenOffice Professional. Apparently, this used to be a commercial project called OpenOffice Premium, but now it’s free! Basically, it’s just our beloved OpenOffice.org with a bunch of extra templates, fonts, clipart, and the like. Sounds like a […]

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Many of you on Twitter know I’ve been working on a 20 page research paper for one of my graduate classes. Before I started, I discovered a fantastic tool for building your bibliography of sources: Zotero.
This extension for Firefox allows you to build a bibliography from sites you visit. Certain scholarly sites are even […]

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Ubuntu Geek has posted a writeup on getting Microsoft Office 2007 files to work with OpenOffice.org. This is comes at a great time for me, because I’m getting more and more files emailed to me in this format…and OpenOffice.org can’t open .docx on its own. Thankfully, there’s now a converter to get these files up […]

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If you’re using a minimal window manager (Fluxbox, IceWM) you may have noticed that OpenOffice looks like crap. You’re getting plain, unthemed widgets that look archaic compared to todays slick QT/GTK themes. Luckily, the solution is quite simple. For a local solution (just your user account) open up your ~/.bash_profile file and enter the following:
export […]

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Here’s a cool tip that I kind of chanced upon this week: use OpenOffice.org as a quick and easy html editor to prepare websites for printing. Not very many people realize this, but OOo makes a pretty darn good GUI for editing HTML. Yeah…sounds crazy, but it’s true. Say you’re using […]

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