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elRTE - open source WYSIWYG editor for Web 9 Must-Have OpenOffice Extensions Like Firefox, OpenOffice also comes with extensions that you can use to improve its functionality. Here, we have tested all the extensions and sorted out those that are useful for everyday use. Some of them are for general use while some are only meant for Writer, Calc or Impress. (For those who haven’t heard about OpenOffice before, it’s a popular free alternative to Microsoft Office) Before you carry on reading, here are some things that you need to do/know: Obviously, the extensions require OpenOffice to work. To install the extension, you have to go to Tools -> Extension Manager in any of the OpenOffice applications. Let’s proceed onto the 9 must-have extensions for your OpenOffice. 1) Sun PDF Import Extension Normally, OpenOffice only allows you to export your file to PDF format, but not to import and make changes to it. By default, this extension imports the PDF file into the Draw application rather than Writer, even though it may contain a full page of text. 4) Writer’s Tools

HTML5 Latest Published Version: Latest Editor's Draft: Previous Versions: Editors: Robin Berjon, W3C Steve Faulkner, The Paciello Group Travis Leithead, Microsoft Erika Doyle Navara, Microsoft Edward O'Connor, Apple Inc. Silvia Pfeiffer Ian Hickson, Google, Inc. This specification is also available as a single page HTML document. Copyright © 2013 W3C® (MIT, ERCIM, Keio, Beihang), All Rights Reserved. This specification defines the 5th major version, first minor revision of the core language of the World Wide Web: the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. If you wish to make comments regarding this document in a manner that is tracked by the W3C, please submit them via using our public bug database. Implementors should be aware that this specification is not stable.

Home - Pencil Project Compiere Open Source ERP and CRM Business Solution Open Source How to Contribute Do you have an idea for improving Zimbra? Have you developed a great mash-up? Zimbra is excited to take contributions that advance the quality and innovation of its collaboration platform. Our principal reason for open sourcing Zimbra Collaboration is our hope to grow a thriving community around this technology. Help scrutinize our architecture and code in order to make Zimbra more reliable and more secure Shape future releases of Zimbra by helping us to prioritize the Zimbra engineering team's projects Provide value-add in the form of general purpose integrations, customizations, or extensions to Zimbra, which can (at the creator's discretion) be posted on the Zimbra community site (irrespective of any overlap with native Zimbra capabilities) Integration may be of particular interest - Zimbra is an extensible collaboration platform that will provide programmatic and/or XML/web service bindings for: "Inbound" applications to submit tasks, schedule meetings, etc.

CodeMirror The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives | WHDb The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives Update January 22, 2013: This article was originally posted February 7, 2008. Since then, it has been one of our most popular articles here at WHdb.com. In light of this, we have decided to give this article an update for 2013: we cleaned out some obsolete links and added a New for 2013 section. Enjoy! Not every proprietary program can drive a person crazy, right? The following fifty sixty proprietary programs are listed in no particular order within broad categories along with their open source alternatives. Jump to: Operating Systems & Web Browsers | Office Suites | Office Tools | Productivity | Graphic Programs | Web Editors | Desktop Publishing | Communications | Media | Utilities | Security | Financial | New for 2013 Operating Systems & Web Browsers Windows 10 to Ubuntu: This is Microsoft’s operating system (OS), and even Microsoft fans have become disillusioned with this product. Office Suites

Open source software architects provides enterprise development lessons and tips In the secretive and profit-focused world of proprietary software development, the open source community stands as the champion for doing things differently. The application architects and the midnight-oil burning software developers who make open source software (OSS) work believe that the driving principles of open source software success are the FACTS: The creation of consumable parts is a side effect of using the right approach to build software. Raymond Augé, Senior Software Architect at Liferay Freedom Accessibility Collaboration Transparency Sharing Yet even companies that eat, sleep and breathe open source are still failing to really take advantage of all the benefits this model has to offer. #1 Reinventing the wheel It may sound counterintuitive, but it is possible for software developers to be too focused on the customer. #2 Clinging to monolithic design A lack of modularity is a serious problem for any firm that wants to become a better collaborator in the open source community.

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