New Media + IT

The new version of the open source office OpenOffice.org, version 2.2, is out now.
Instead of posting a "what's new" post I figured that you'd just as well read the official press release and release notes :-)
For Danish folks: da.openoffice.org is the place to go.

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[ categorized as: Open source, Software ]

I just ordered this book on Ubuntu – let's just hope it delivers as much as it promises :-)

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[ categorized as: Books, Linux, Open source ]

I need Linux soooo bad :D
Ubuntu meets Beryl.

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[ categorized as: Linux, Open source ]

Let's see what this has in store for us :)
OpenOffice.org 2.2 Release Candidate 2.

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[ categorized as: Open source ]

Fancy the open source office suite OpenOffice.org?
If you like testing cutting edge software (with no support and at your own risk) click the link below.
Download OpenOffice.org 2.2 Release Candidate 1.

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[ categorized as: Open source ]

It has been in a testing phase pretty much since January 4th, when beta 1 was released to the testing community and now it's here:
WordPress 2.1. (WordPress is the open source content management system that is running this blog.)
Version 2.1 is named "Ella" after Ella Fitzgerald — every WordPress release is named after a jazz [...]

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[ categorized as: CMS, Open source, PHP ]

As you may or may not know, version 2.0.7 of WordPress — the open source content management which this blog is powered by — is out.
Read more about the 2.0.7 update at the WordPress development blog.
I just updated to 2.0.7 simply by uploading the new WordPress onto the old one…works every time for me :-)
Update [...]

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One of the things in WordPress that irritated me was the fact, that when people search for something on a blog, the window title just shows the blog name (e.g. "New Media") and not what has been searched for.
I wanted to change this, so it displayed "New Media » search: %search term%".
Instead of writing in [...]

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[ categorized as: CMS, Open source, PHP ]

Dana Blankenholm at ZDNet blogs, that Linden Labs has released the Second Life client software source code under the open source GPL license
This is somewhat interesting, allthough I'm not that much into Second Life, and probably don't understand the full impact of this yet :).
Read more at businesswire.com.

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[ categorized as: Open source ]

Just installed OpenOffice.org 2.1 Danish.One the the new features is an online update feature.
But when I started OOo 1.2, it wasn't were is was suppose to be, in Tools » Options » OpenOffice.org. I saw that others had the same problem and discussed it in a thread on the da.openoffice.org forum.
So I decided to uninstall [...]

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[ categorized as: Open source, Software ]