Trying Open Office 1.1.2

ByTris July 12, 2004

I was thinking over the weekend that I wanted to save a presentation I did in June in Flash to make available online. So I go looking (online of course) for PPT to SWF tools and I learn (or maybe am reminded of) OpenOffice can save presentations to Flash natively!

A short (over DSL) download of 65 megs (before you groan, no way MS Offce can compare…this is the FULL install) and a quick install I'm off and running. I didn't even have to reboot (I did anyway). I opened my PowerPoint file in Impress hit export and done!

I haven't really played with any of the other new features. Used StarOffice 6 for several months and know the baiscs pretty well.

The flash file, BTW, looks great. I'm futzing with how to display it online, but take my word for it, it looks exactly like the orginal.

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Creator of the web turns knight

ByTris July 16, 2004

Creator of the web turns knightSir Tim! If there is one man in this world who has changed it so much in so little time (only ten years!), Tim Berners-Lee is the man. This is an honour well deserved. All because Berners-Lee is dyslexic and wanted a new way to organize information in a way…

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PCWorld.com – GeekTech: Create Your Own Home Page With Your Favorite Links

ByTris April 27, 2004

This isn't truly a telecommuting thing, but most telecommuters have lots of links and places they go for news. This is a nifty little idea, worth a look if you don't use an RSS reader. But I recommend beyond highly using an RSS feed reader (for Windows I like KlipFolio from Serence Download here) to…

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PCWorld.com – Broadband Becomes a Campaign Issue or Telecommuting, Kyoto, and Global Warming

ByTris June 22, 2004

As those of you in Canada know we are in the final days of a federal election. The “major” parties, that is the Liberals, Conservatives, and NPD, have been focusing on healthcare, taxes, and other standard campaign issues. The Greens, not considered a “major” party although they are running candidates in all 308 federal ridings,…

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Shared Spaces Research & Consulting: Shared Spaces Briefing, Aug 10

ByTris August 9, 2004

Shared Spaced updates…there is some great stuff here. In fact I have a post in the works on Five Across' IM client. Calligator (what is it with the 'gator applications…Newsgator, Calligator…) looks interesting in the telephony arena. I'm going to take a look at that. Late summer seems to be the time for new software…

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From Robin Good: Review of BlogCatalog

ByTris July 19, 2004

Robin Good has done a quick review of a new blog directory called BlogCatalog. The directory is in its early days, but I'll be submitting this blog as soon as I move it to its new URL (I'm switching over to Blogware very soon). Robin's review quotes that it is growing in popularity as a…

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Google and blogs and match made in Heaven?

ByTris July 21, 2004

I have certainly found this to be completely true. And it's not just Google, but all the search engines. Ironically my first big traffic boost and Google attention was about the iPod as well. Now has all this spidering helped my traffic, not really, but that's okay. In my mind, my stats are a proof…

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