笔者: 尼尔·梅塔

OpenOffice是死了

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”; 即. 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, 什么, $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” – 亦即, 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 人, 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, 良好, 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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寻求一个体面的主页

I’m not sure why home pages were even invented in the first place. 我的意思是, sure, you need a page to open when you boot up your browser, but they just make things, 良好, 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的 – 因为最好的东西谷歌

我一直在寻找我的页面分析 (跟踪访问者的网站) 并注意到有人来h​​athix通过DuckDuckGo的. 无聊, 我抬头DuckDuckGo的，我被打动了自动. 这是一个 强大的搜索引擎. 这里的原因.

零点击信息

DuckDuckGo的的得到了这个伟大的功能，让你看到一个问题的一些快速的背景信息，当你搜索了. 如果我想知道纳尔逊·曼德拉是在无需阅读冗长的文章关于种族隔离谁, 南非, ，诸如此类的东西, 我可以DDG它，看看我所得到的:

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地球一小时

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 “地球一小时” has now spread around the globe, 和, 良好, today’s the day.

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

What can I do?

再次, 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.) 代替, you should turn off:

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火狐 4 出

它已经在未来一年左右 (它是在公测了整整一年), 但Firefox 4 终于出来了，可以下载 firefox.com. 开放源码的Web浏览器的最新版本是一个巨大的一步 3.6 版本 (从一年前的旧版本稳定, 可怜现在已经过时。)

有什么变化

  • 火狐 4 大约是 3 倍的速度 在页面加载和JavaScript性能比 3.6. 这意味着您喜爱的Web应用程序和网站 – 为此做好准备 – 3 倍的速度比前.
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