OpenOffice મૃત છે

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 “when they were ready” – છે, 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:એ

I just got an email addressed to no less than 78 લોકો, 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, કૂવો, 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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એક યોગ્ય ઘર પાનું માટે શોધ

ઘર પાનાંઓ પણ પ્રથમ સ્થાને શોધ કરી હતી શા માટે હું ખાતરી છે કે નથી. હું તેનો અર્થ, ખાતરી કરો, તમે તમારા બ્રાઉઝર બુટ જ્યારે ખોલવા માટે એક પાનું જરૂર, પરંતુ તેઓ માત્ર વસ્તુઓ બનાવવા, કૂવો, અનાડી. પ્લસ તેઓ ખૂબ જ ઉપયોગી નથી,: તેમાંના મોટા ભાગના માત્ર એક ઉતરાણ પાનું તરીકે સેવા; કેવી રીતે વિશે સમાચાર વાંચવા માટે સિવાય તમે ખરેખર તેમને ઉપયોગ કરતા નથી બાળકો શાળાએ મળ્યો બપોરના લાવવા કરી શકો છો (*ઉધરસ * યાહૂ * ઉધરસ *.) અને તમે સામગ્રી તે પ્રકારના નથી ત્યારે, તમે માત્ર તમે મૂળ બધા સાથે શું અર્થ શું હતા વિચલિત.

મને લાગે છે કે શા માટે છે ખબર કરવા માંગો છો અને હું તેને સુધારવા માટે મદદ કરી શકે છે કેવી રીતે.

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DuckDuckGo – the best thing since Google

I was looking on my analytics page (tracking visitors to the site) and noticed someone came to hathix through DuckDuckGo. Being bored, I looked up DuckDuckGo and I was impressed automatically. It’s a great search engine. Here’s why.

Zero-click info

DuckDuckGo’s got this great feature that lets you see some quick background info on a subject when you search it. If I want to know who Nelson Mandela is without having to read a lengthy article about apartheid, South Africa, and that sort of stuff, I can just DDG it and look what I get:

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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, અને, કૂવો, today’s the day.

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

What can I do?

ફરી, 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.) તેના બદલે, you should turn off:

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ફાયરફોક્સ 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

  • ફાયરફોક્સ 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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