Open Office recently pushed 3.0 as a beta release.
It’s a bit slower the 2.4, it’s got a nice new start centre, an icon refresh, a zoom control on the status bar and is now capable of supporting extensions to increase functionality.
To be honest I can’t say there are a great many useful downloads available at [...]

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A colleague of mine build a static html website a few years ago. He slowly but steadily created hundreds of html pages which was great for him because he could simply use one already finished file as a template for a new one. It did however pose a problem as well. Updating information across all files was very time consuming. Think of extending the copyright notice each year, adding advertisement to the websites or changing the navigation.

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My old hoster had the habit of providing me with 20 Megabyte log file chunks that I could download to my computer. I did run a great forum back then that had lots of traffic and I always had to download several log files and combine them when they were downloaded on my computer. That’s one practical use for the software TxtCollector which combines text documents found in folders and subfolders that the user specifies.

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Text Stat is a small program for Windows that analyzes text files and html documents displaying a wide variety of statistics about it in the end. It displays figures about the amount of paragraphs, words, letters, sentences, printable characters, spaces, carriage returns, number of words per sentence, syllables per word and a word list with [...]

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While browsing the GoogleDocs blog I found an interesting update about two updates already in this year. The less significant, although probably better update if you want to organize yourself is the ability to add sub-folders. For me this was a much awaited feature since no matter how many tags and other organizational stuff I can add, a good folder structure is always a must.

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