The Leprechaun Works, LLC » software http://www.leprechaunworks.com/content Useable technology Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:00:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 What Is LibreOffice and What Does It Mean For You http://www.leprechaunworks.com/content/2011/01/31/what-is-libreoffice-and-what-does-it-mean-for-you/ http://www.leprechaunworks.com/content/2011/01/31/what-is-libreoffice-and-what-does-it-mean-for-you/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:00:12 +0000 admin http://www.leprechaunworks.com/content/?p=401
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LibreOffice is a fork of the popular open source office suite, OpenOffice. After Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, there have been concerns over Oracle’s long term support of open source projects. Due to this concern, The Document Foundation forked OpenOffice to create LibreOffice. Forking an open source project in essence makes a copy of a project to proceed in possibly a new direction. OpenOffice is still very much a viable and popular open source office suite. LibreOffice on the other hand is also fully compatible with OpenOffice 3.3, supporting all of its newest additions.

The LibreOffice Suite consists of six separate applications. Comparing it to Microsoft’s Office product, you get the following applications.

Writer = Word
Calc = Excel
Base = Access
Impress = PowerPoint

They also have Draw, a program the lets you build sketches and diagrams and Math is an equation editor. The suite maintains compatibility with all competitors file formats. You can import or save from Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The application is open source and licensed under the LGPL. What that means for you is that it is free. Other handy features, such as a built in PDF creator allows you to save documents in a format that anyone can easily read.

So, if you looking for a Microsoft Office alternative or just need a simple word processor, this could be your solution. Learn more at http://www.libreoffice.org

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The Recycler. Funny name for software. Sounds more like a super hero.

This addin for Microsoft Outlook is all about saving you money and at the same time doing something good for our environment. What if we told you that we could help you find great items for free? What if we said that thousands of people give away great things everyday? How can you take advantage? Organizations such as Freecycle™ rely on simple email or rss for notifying users of free items.

While it isn’t exactly printing your own money, we believe that our application will help you find items for the cost of gas to pick it up. You can certainly use services like Freecycle™ without our addin, but we think you will decide that its features are well worth it. Wouldn’t that be worth a few dollars?

What will it do?

  1. Manage your email from a group. This is helpful with very active email lists, like found on Freecycle™
  2. Notify you or items matching items in your watch list
  3. Helps to format your emails so they match list rules
  4. Ticker feature, that shows recent items wanted or are being offered

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badge Beta Sign up is now open! Don’t be left out.

The Recycler is targeted to be released early first quarter of 2010. Please follow us on Twitter. In the very near future, we are going to be entering a beta phase and are going to give away the product to a select number of people. You tell us of any problems, and we in turn make sure that you get our product for free.

As always, you can subscribe to our news feeds which will have any product announcements. Stay tuned.

To learn more about FreeCycle™, visit http://freecycle.org/

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