OpenOffice está muerta

Los chicos de Oracle poner una declaración en algún momento la semana pasada acerca de su suite ofimática libre y de código abierto, OpenOffice. Adivina qué? Están haciendo un “proyecto comunitario”; es decir. que están dejando morir.

La parte triste es que OpenOffice era muy popular: muchos usuarios de Mac lo usaron (ya que Office para Mac cuesta una tonelada) y un montón de usuarios de Windows lo utilizó como bien (la mayoría de la gente no va a utilizar todas las características de Microsoft Office, que los costos, qué, $100?) Pero no se desanime, que no es tan malo como se podría pensar. Siga leyendo para ver.

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Nueva estrategia de lanzamiento de Firefox

Back in the day (and by that I mean a week ago), new versions of Firefox were released “when they were ready” – es decir, when all the features they wanted to put in were in it. That’s called feature-based releases, and most developers use that strategy.

But there’s another release strategy that focuses on releasing new versions every so often. Some features might not make a version, but that’s OK; a new version is coming in x weeks so it’ll be included then. This is called fixed releases.

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Yet another rant about Bcc:s

I just got an email addressed to no less than 78 personas, and all 78 people’s email addresses were in the To field. You’d think the sender would put all our emails in the Bcc field since, bien, the recipients don’t really need to know the emails of the other 77 people who got the email. (In its defense, putting all the emails in the To field makes stalking easier, but isn’t that what Facebook’s for?)

I can understand why Cc isn’t that popular: it does the same thing as To, except it carries a different semantic meaning. Most teenagers (and a bunch of adults too) couldn’t care less about the fancy schmancy semantic meaning, so they just use To.

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La búsqueda de una página de inicio decente

I’m not sure why home pages were even invented in the first place. Quiero decir, sure, you need a page to open when you boot up your browser, but they just make things, bien, awkward. Plus they’re not very useful: most of them just serve as a landing page; you don’t really use them except to read news about how kids can’t bring bagged lunch to school (*cough* Yahoo *cough*.) And when you do that kind of stuff, you just get distracted from what you were originally meaning to do all along.

I want to know why that is and how I can help fix it.

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DuckDuckGo – la mejor cosa desde Google

Que estaba buscando en la página de mi analytics (seguimiento de visitantes en el sitio) y se dio cuenta que alguien vino a hathix través DuckDuckGo. Estar aburrido, Miré DuckDuckGo y me impresionó de forma automática. Es una gran motor de búsqueda. He aquí por qué.

Zero-Click info

DuckDuckGo tiene a esta gran función que permite ver algunos rápida información de fondo sobre un tema cuando se busca que. Si yo quiero saber que Nelson Mandela es sin tener que leer un largo artículo sobre el apartheid, Sudáfrica, y ese tipo de cosas, No puedo simplemente DDG y miro lo que me pasa:

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La Hora del Planeta

I’m not sure if you remember, but a few years back (2007?) the city of Sydney turned off all non-essential lights for an hour to raise awareness for the need to fight climate change. That “La Hora del Planeta” has now spread around the globe, y, bien, today’s the day.

Earth Hour will take place at 8:30 a 9:30 pm your local time.

What can I do?

De nuevo, in Earth Hour you turn off all non-essential lights and other electronics. That means you shouldn’t go around and turn off all the streetlights you can find (that would lead to mass chaos.) En lugar, you should turn off:

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Firefox 4 is out

It’s been about a year in coming (it was in beta for a full year), but Firefox 4 is finally out and can be downloaded at firefox.com. The open-source web browser’s latest version is a gigantic step forward from the 3.6 version (the old stable version from a year ago, which is pitifully outdated by now.)

What’s changed

  • Firefox 4 is about 3 times faster in page loading and JavaScript performance than 3.6. This means your favorite web apps and websites are – get ready for this – 3 times faster than before.
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