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If you are Open Source supporter, I am sure you familiar with the name of Open Source Office Suite such as Open Office (by Sun Microsystems) and Star Office in Google Pack. Now, you can have another Free Office Suite named IBM Lotus Symphony (by IBM).

Why use IBM Lotus Symphony?

Lotus Symphony won in the Office Productivity Software category beating out other nominees Microsoft Office, OpenOffice 2.3.1 and Think Free Office. hence no worries on its friendliness and features. Since Lotus Symphony is based on OpenOffice.org Technology and supports the ODF (Open Document Format) standard, so it is Free of Charge.

There are three applications that make up Lotus Symphony: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, Lotus Symphony Presentations. In my opinion, Lotus Symphony is perfect for business users. It meet office operation requirements yet it is Free! (more…)

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Fun with Personas

Personas for Firefox is an extension that adds lightweight theming to your firefox web browser. With this add on, you can swap your favourite browser themes instantly from the dynamic menu, without restart you firefox.

Personas is still in beta and it does not need to download, install or update for new theme release. The reason behind is Personas selector is dynamically loaded and populated from a JSON feed and all designs are loaded via URLs to remote resources. This mean all latest themes name are loaded automatically into your menu, and only download automatically when you acquire it!

How to use Personas?

Install Personas extension and do a restart for your firefox. You will see a Personas icon on your firefox status bar as below. Click on the Personas button and select your desire theme

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Beware of downloads!

If you are my readers from Malaysia, please beware of downloading illegal materials from Internet, esspecially those pirated musics and movies and for sure softwares. A serious warning from the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry:

If you download material illegally from the Internet, be prepared to fork out a minimum fine of RM250,000.

This penalty was legislated more than 10 years ago under the Copyright Act and “We will also very soon make Internet download offenders our priority,” he said. The maximum fine for downloading material illegally from the Internet was a whopping RM500,000.

My two cents

As my opinion, we must respect to the intellectual property while seeking for free things! Hence I would like to call on all of you here to support Open Source projects and encourage the freedom of using software for the next generation by using Linux.

While for musics and movies, anybody can tell me how to get legal source from Internet? Will this warning stop you downloading from Internet?

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Google launched Gphone development ?

Lots of people in the internet are discussiong about when Google going to release their so call "Gphone" ? Some Gphone fans even started to design the new look for Gphone. Somewhere last week, Google has officially annouced their first mobile phone platform named Android.

I believe with the release of this Gphone on second half year 2008, Google will lead the advertising market to the next higher milestone in their success. Why ? Definitely because Android is a fully integrated mobile “software stack” that consists of an operating system, middleware, user-friendly interface and applications. And yet, it is Open Source !

Last week, the Android developer had presented and posted a demo on the Android platform to Youtube. Look at their cool demo

As you can see from the video clip, it is almost same features with iPhone except the multitouch screen. Is GPhone going to beat down iPhone? Let’s wait and see….

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