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Will The Linux Desktop Soon Be Irrelevant?

By mnassal

via: Christopher Smart – www.linux-mag.com

Meet my needs
The popularity of services from the likes of Google and Facebook shows that users don’t care about their own privacy (perhaps they don’t yet know its value). So that’s really a non-issue. As an example, people use web based email systems like Gmail because they work well. You can [...]

23 Open Source iPhone App Store Apps

By mnassal

Productivity News via: John – iphonepundits

The Apps
Here they are listed in alphabetical order (name linked to app homepage when possible):
1. ABC 123 – Sequence memorization game. Utilizes Cocos2D.(itunes link) (source code)
2. Colloquy – Conversion of the most popular Mac IRC client to the iPhone. (itunes link) (source code)
3. Diceshaker - Dice rolling simulator designed for role-playing game enthusiasts. (itunes [...]

[Worth a second look] OpenOffice: Free Microsoft Office Replacement Netbook

By mnassal

Productivity News via: Ishan – netbookfreeware
OpenOffice has come a long way over the past few years. The majority of features offered in commercial office suits are now available in OpenOffice for free. It also imports and exports to MS docx and xlsx. If you only paid a couple hundred bucks on your Netbook, do you [...]

[Are they throwing out the baby with the bathwater?] Ubuntu Axes OpenOffice From Netbook Edition 10.04

By mnassal

Productivity News via: netbookboards
At first look, it seems like a really odd decision, but the reality is the Netbooks’ best friend is the cloud. Google Docs provide most of the features a user would need on the road that OpenOffice provides without the CPU load and footprint.
Fan or not, Google Apps is becoming the [...]

[Getting the most our of open source] OpenOffice.org Extensions for Business Users

By mnassal

Productivity News via: DMITRI POPOV – worldlabel
There are a surprisingly large number of extensions available for OpenOffice. Beyond the ones listed in this article are:

Sun Connector for SharePoint Server
Writer’s Tools
Sun Weblog Publisher
Sun Wiki Publisher

The list goes on, and on. Checkout the full list

OpenOffice.org is an excellent all-around productivity suite as it is, but you can [...]