September 23, 2007

View OpenOffice.org Docs in Fx

You can easily view (and do other basic operations) your OpenOffice.org documents in Firefox.  No extensions or software to install, just a simple plug-in to activate:  Start OpenOffice From the Tools menu select Options… At the end of the list select the category Internet At the of this list select Mozilla Plug-In Click Enabled Click OK That’s all you need to do!  No reboot needed, you now can view, save, print, make into PDF, e-mail and zoom any OpenOffice.org document right from Firefox.  Want to edit the document simply click the Edit File icon and it will launch OpenOffice.org with…

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Review: Brief

For quite some time I had been using Flock as my news reader. I liked the interface of having all my feeds listed in a sidebar. However over the past couple weeks I noticed something odd the blogs I normally visit we’re not showing any new entries. Didn’t think much of it until the other day when I saw the Thunderbird Organization Established — MailCo article on CyberNet News. I noticed on of the references listed was Mozilla Links, which according to Flock had no new articles. I had already had problems with another feed refusing to load in Flock…

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PrimoPDF

Foxit Reader is great alternative to Adobe Acrobat for viewing PDF files. But what if you want to create a PDF file? Sure you could pay for a program that will take your files and convert them to PDF. Or you could use MS Office saves as PDF option. Even OpenOffice has an Export as PDF option but that does the whole document as a PDF file. I ran into this problem with an OpenOffice spreadsheet I had. I wanted each sheet or page to be its own PDF document. After a quick search on the CyberNet Forum, I found…

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