I’ve been waiting for Open Office 3 for a while for one of its best features, compatibility for Microsoft Office 2007 files.  For those of you that don’t know, Open Office is an Open Source alternative to Microsoft Office.  It is very easy to use and includes the full suite that you would get with [...]

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Farecast has been acquired by Microsoft. If you are not familiar with Farecast, it is an awesome travel site that can give predictions of best time to buy along with compiling deals from other sites. I’m hoping that it’s ability to search and find airfare doesn’t fall under the Live algorithm. Only [...]

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I can’t say I didn’t see it coming. Microsoft has never been strong in the internet search arena and yahoo has been a far second to Google. But maybe combined they may offer a force to be reckoned with, especially with a majority of the projects being duplicated that can be merged to [...]

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There are so many times in a given day that I have to deal with Microsoft’s formatting of their documents when trying to copy and paste them into other applications. I found a slick utility for Windows that runs in the background and automatically cleans content on the clipboard.
It is called Clipboard Text [...]

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Recently I’ve been looking at getting a solution like TiVo but am put off by it a little by the recurring fee for the service, especially since the service really doesn’t get you anymore than a configured computer. The cost of a TiVo box is $99 plus $129/year for the service…this is for the [...]

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