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LibreOffice 3.5.4 RC2 Available for Download

LibreOffice, a free power-packed open source personal productivity suite that provides users with six feature-rich applications for all your document production and data processing needs (Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Math and Base) is now at version 3.5.4 RC2. When a Release Candidate for LibreOffice is made availa...

25 May 2012
06:11 GMT

Apache OpenOffice 3.4 Officially Announced

The Apache OpenOffice, the original open source office productivity suite, designed for professional and consumer use, is now at version 3.4.0. After being adopted into the Apache Foundation and after picking a new name, the Apache OpenOffice project comes with a few new interesting features, such as improved ODT s...

8 May 2012
10:57 GMT

Pioneer Unveils Its Most Powerful BD Writer

Japanese company Pioneer has announced today the release of its new Blu-ray Writer drive, on its official website. The new drive is connected through the classic SATA  interface. The device is called BDR-2207 and is able to write a single layer BD-R at a speed of 12x. A double-layer BD-R will be written at a fa...

1 May 2012
17:39 GMT

Dave Gross Will Write New Quests for Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition

The upcoming Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition will get new content when it arrives during the summer and Dave Gross, an author who has experience when it comes to the Dungeons &Dragons universe, will be the man to write it.The writer has delivered such novels as Black Wolf and Lord of Stormweather, both set in t...

28 April 2012
02:12 GMT

Google Doodle Celebrates SF Pioneer Jorge Luis Borges

It is already some sort of tradition for Google to commemorate the most valuable artists, no matter if they are sculptors, musicians, scientists, painters or writers, so today the Doodle is meant to remind us of Jorge Luis Borges.Considered to have pioneered the science fiction genre, the full name of the Argentinia...

24 August 2011
13:09 GMT

Writer: ‘I Sell 200 eBooks a Day on Kindle. On iPad, I Sell 100 a Month’

Some are reluctant to believe Steve Jobs’ claims that iBooks and iPad had captured 22% of the electronic book market in June, especially TNW which says that thriller writer Joe Konrath is seeing far more success with Amazon Kindle sales.The Next Web points out to a June statement coming from Steve Jobs when the...

24 August 2010
05:10 GMT

Writer Susan Orlean on Why iPad Replaced her ASUS Netbook

In an interview with the people at Macworld, American writer Susan Orlean explains how and why she has come to embrace Apple’s iPad. Touting it as a great work and entertainment tool for the road, Orlean lauds the iPad’s long battery life, and its big screen. The Apple tablet, which replaced her ASUS ...

9 August 2010
08:18 GMT

Writer Sues ‘Ugly Betty’ for Ripping Her Off

Only days ago, fans of the once incredibly successful ABC series “Ugly Betty” had to say goodbye to their favorite characters, after the network’s decision to have it go out on a relatively high note as ratings plummeted. ABC is not done with “Ugly Betty” though, as writer Azita Zendel h...

21 April 2010
04:19 GMT

Apple iPad Considered Totally Inappropriate for IT - Opinion

Freelance writer Rob McGarvey has posted what he calls the “10 Reasons to Nix the iPad in Your IT Strategy.” Seemingly a good read at first glance, the report is pretty off on some of the aspects surrounding Apple’s yet-unreleased iPad. The ever-sarcastic MacDailyNews calls McGarvey an “IT doo...

18 March 2010
12:09 GMT

Download Snow Leopard-Enhanced Bean 2.4.2

Bean is a simple and efficient word processor developed by James Hoover for users of an Apple Macintosh running Mac OS X Tiger, Leopard or Snow Leopard. For those who’ve embraced the latest version of Apple’s operating system, yet cling to the simple ‘word’ app they’ve been using every d...

2 December 2009
06:58 GMT

Warner Bros. Cautious About Bringing ‘Superman’ Back

After the “Superman” franchise was rebooted in 2006 with the publicly panned “Superman Returns,” Warner Bros. kept insisting that a sequel would soon come, one that would make sense of the mess that the first film allegedly caused. Three years later, the studio has still not said anything abou...

26 March 2009
11:44 GMT

Writer Christopher Fowler's Best Friend Is His MacBook Air

Christopher Fowler is a brilliant English novelist living in London (born in Greenwich). He is best known for his work in the dark urban fiction area. His books contain elements of black comedy, anxiety and social satire. Christopher writes novels, short stories, scripts, press articles and reviews, but he also keeps...

11 February 2009
07:01 GMT

Italian Writer Files for Plagiarism Against ‘Benjamin Button’

“The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” is, as it’s already common knowledge for many, a movie inspired by the short story with the same title by F. Scott Fitzgerald, but not based on it. However, a Roman office worker is now saying that the 13-time Academy Award nominated film is actually based on a ...

2 February 2009
10:34 GMT

Developers Must Communicate with Their Writers, Says Rhianna Pratchett

Game development is, despite popular belief, a very tough job filled with difficult challenges and tough periods. This is especially true when the team is a big one, made up of various people, all working without a concrete goal in mind, which is reflected more severely on those responsible for the game story, the wr...

19 January 2009
15:01 GMT

NameGenr8er Released for Creative Writers

Ultimate Music Software has released a simple, but quite useful piece of Mac software aimed at writers. NameGenr8er can generate as many as 500 different names instantly, and also lets you set the level of obscurity the resulted names have.Although described as "a name generator application for creative writers who u...

29 August 2008
10:42 GMT

NeoOffice 2.2.4 Patch 5 Available

With the release of NeoOffice 2.2.4, the open source suite of office apps really took off, fixing tons of bugs, but, most notably, adding support for the Apple Remote for controlling presentations. After launching the fourth patch for NeoOffice 2.2.4, the developing team could confirm that slideshow presentations ran...

22 August 2008
03:32 GMT

Reference Tracker - Writers' Tool Released for Mac

Reference Tracker, a very useful tool for writers, researchers or students using a Mac, creates documents that store all the citations and references in an essay, research project or book. Just give Reference Tracker the book's ISBN and it will fetch all the details on the Internet! The newly released app automa...

18 August 2008
18:11 GMT

Famous Writer Relies on 'VoiceOver' to Do His Work

Are you aware of "cognitive dissonance?" Well, even if you were, you probably wouldn't admit to having it. Actually, this is what it does – it makes you not admit certain bad parts about you so you can sleep better at night. Writer Elliot Aronson decided it was imperative that folks knew more about this "conditi...

18 June 2008
04:08 GMT

Patch 6 Available for NeoOffice 2.2.3 Users

Users of NeoOffice 2.2.3 (myself included) can update their favorite set of office apps with a new patch from the guys at NeoOffice.org. Patch 6 fixes a problem that caused the scroll arrows not to function and a bug in Leopard where file locking on local volumes worked incorrectly. Other tweaks are also in order.Neo...

12 June 2008
03:29 GMT

Not Everyone Should Switch to Mac

CNN Money writer Jonathan Blum weighs in on "the switch to Mac" and how it can be quite beneficial for some companies, but also costly and unnecessary for others. Blum speaks from the point of view of a small business and highlights a few aspects that should be taken into consideration, should you, as the big boss, b...

5 June 2008
09:06 GMT

Windows Live Downloads Wave 2

Microsoft is but hours away from the official launch of the next wave of products and services reunited under the Windows Live brand umbrella. The Redmond company has even placed an official countdown webpage associated with Windows Live. At the time of this article, there were still a little over five hours to "bett...

6 November 2007
11:48 GMT

Lite-On Intros a Smart External DVD Writer

Lite-On Digital Solutions and Philips formed sometime ago a joint venture named PLDS, aimed at designing and manufacturing high quality computer hardware parts and especially optical storage devices. As the entire line of PLDS designed and manufactured DVD writer units received the Red Dot award earlier this year, th...

11 October 2007
05:26 GMT

Freeware Office Suite Available for Download

If anyone is still interested in buying Microsoft Office, then this should make them turn their to another solution on the market, because Microsoft's pack of tools is not the only technology available on the market. Beside Google's Office suite, OpenOffice and other similar services, a new product is now a...

21 August 2007
08:29 GMT


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