OpenOffice on surnud

The guys at Oracle put out a statement sometime last week about their free and open-source office suite, OpenOffice. Guess what? They’re making it a “community project”; i.e. they’re leaving it to die.

The sad part is that OpenOffice was very popular: many Mac users used it (since Office for Mac costs a ton) and plenty of Windows users used it as well (most people aren’t going to use all the features of Microsoft Office, which costs, what, $100?) But don’t be discouraged, it’s not as bad as you might think. Read on to see.

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Firefox’s new release strategy

Back in the day (and by that I mean a week ago), new versions of Firefox were released “kui nad olid valmis” – mis on, kui kõik omadused, et nad tahtsid panna oli see. That’s called feature-based releases, ja kõige arendajad kasutada, et strateegia.

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 inimesed, 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, hästi, 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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Otsingul korralik kodulehekülg

Ma ei tea, miks kodulehed olid isegi leiutati esimene koht. Ma mõtlen, kindel, sa pead leht avada käivitamisel oma brauseri, kuid nad lihtsalt teha asju, hästi, kohmakas. Plus nad ei ole väga kasulik: enamik neist lihtsalt olla koduleheks; 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 – parim asi, sest Google

Ma otsisin minu analytics lehele (jälgimise lehe külastajad) ja märkasin keegi tuli hathix läbi DuckDuckGo. On igav, Vaatasin üles DuckDuckGo ja mulle muljet automaatselt. See on suur otsingumootori. Siin miks.

Zero-kliki info

DuckDuckGo ju see hea omadus, mis võimaldab teil näha mõned kiired tausta infot objektile, kui seda otsida. Kui ma tahan teada, kes Nelson Mandela on ilma lugeda pikki artikli kohta apartheid, Lõuna-Aafrika, ja seda sorti kraami, Ma lihtsalt DDG ja vaata, mida ma saan:

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Earth Hour

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 “Earth Hour” has now spread around the globe, ja, hästi, today’s the day.

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

What can I do?

Again, 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.) Instead, you should turn off:

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Firefox 4 on välja

See on olnud umbes aasta tulevad (see oli beeta täisaasta), kuid 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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