gHacks technology news » open office 3 http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Open Office 3 Final http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/10/open-office-3-final/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/10/open-office-3-final/#comments Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:20:26 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=7542 The final release of Open Office 3 has already been distributed to various mirror sites to make sure the official announcement on Monday 13 will not see any complications. Users who are eager to try out the final release can head over to the list of Open Office mirror sites and pick one near their location.

The path of the final release is usually openoffice/stable/3.0.0/ on the ftp mirrors. Available are releases for all supported operating systems and the source codes. The release notes have not been updated yet but there cannot be many changes between Release Candidate 4 and the final release of Open Office due to the lack of time between the releases.

Cautious users should wait until Monday to download and install the release after the official announcement of the Open Office team.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/10/10/open-office-3-final/feed/ 21 Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 and Open Office 3 RC1 Released http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/08/firefox-31-alpha-2-and-open-office-3-rc1-released/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/08/firefox-31-alpha-2-and-open-office-3-rc1-released/#comments Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:08:42 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=6867 Two major Open Source applications have been updated in the last two days. The Mozilla development team released Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 to beta testers and everyone else who is interested in trying out the upcoming features of Firefox 3.1 before it is officially released.

The alpha versions of Firefox 3.1 Shiretoko / Gecko 1.9.1 introduces several new features and performance improvements. It also addds support for the HTML5 video element, CSS properties and dragging and dropping tabs between browser windows. The major feature of the release will be the performance gains.

Interested users can take a look at the release notes and download Firefox 3.1 Alpha 2 for all supported operating systems.

The Open Office developers are a step ahead of the Firefox development team. They left the alpha phase and have released the first release candidate of Open Office. The release notes of this release are available online. The download is available for all supported operating systems.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/09/08/firefox-31-alpha-2-and-open-office-3-rc1-released/feed/ 2 Open Office 3.0 beta released http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/07/open-office-30-beta-released/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/05/07/open-office-30-beta-released/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 19:27:31 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=4043 Open Office 3.0 beta has been released by the Open Office development team and is ready to be tested by the large community. The biggest change in my opinion is the support for Microsoft Office 2007 files, you know those docx, xlsx and pptx type of files that could not be opened not long ago and caused a lot of frustration by users who received such files from colleagues or friends. Other additions are Mac OS X and OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.2 standard support.

The beta can be downloaded and installed on computers that run Windows, Linux, Solaris or Mac OS X Intel Aqua. Localized versions are available as well and can be downloaded from the external mirrors that host all localized builds.

A Beta page lists all of the features that have already been implemented in the current Beta of Open Office 3. It divides the changes in New Core Features, like the import filter for Microsoft Office 2007 formats, Core Features that have been introduced in minor releases since the release of Open Office 2.0 and Features that have been released as extensions or complimentary tools.


The most immediately visible change to OpenOffice.org 3.0 is the new “Start Centre”, new fresh-looking icons, and a new zoom control in the status bar. A closer look shows that 3.0 has a myriad of new features. Notable Calc improvements include a new solver component; support for spreadsheet collaboration through workbook sharing; and an increase to 1024 columns per sheet. Writer has an improved notes feature and displays of multiple pages while editing. There are numerous Chart enhancements, and an improved crop feature in Draw and Impress.

Behind the scenes, OpenOffice.org 3.0 will support the upcoming OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.2 standard, and is capable of opening files created with MS-Office 2007 or MS-Office 2008 for Mac OS X (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx, etc.). This is in addition to read and write support for the MS-Office binary file formats (.doc, .xls, .ppt, etc.).

OpenOffice.org 3.0 will be the first version to run on Mac OS X without X11, with the look and feel of any other Aqua application. It introduces partial VBA support to this platform. In addition, OpenOffice.org 3.0 integrates well with the Mac OS X accessibility APIs, and thus offers better accessibility support than many other Mac OS X applications.

The size of the download lies between 145 and 197 Megabytes depending on the operating system.

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