Comics have long been used as supplementary materials for education. My twenty-years-old collection of Gospel comics, Noli Me Tangere comics and El Filibusterismo comics – required readings during my high school years, are still stacked in my basement and I just can’t bear to throw them away. For decades, comics like these have made learning [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Fancy a Linux comic book in your classroom?
Posted in 2008, April 2008 on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Open source key to SaaS future
Posted in April 2008 on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Open source software will be key to the adoption of software as a service (SaaS) over the next few years to keep costs down and make sharing of applications easier. By 2010, around 90 per cent of SaaS providers will be using open source within their technology ’stacks’ – operating systems, application servers and databases [...]
Some cool extensions for OpenOffice.org Impress
Posted in April 2008 on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
OpenOffice.org Impress, the presentation application of OpenOffice.org, has a few cool, new extensions that you might find very useful. If you’ve been using proprietary presentation applications and find OpenOffice.org Impress lacking in the bells and whistles that you used to enjoy , I am sure you will find these extensions helpful in closing that functionality [...]
OpenOffice.org 3.0 – an early look
Posted in April 2008 on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The newly-released OpenOffice.org 2.4 comes with a number of bug fixes, performance improvements and new features , which include 3D slide transitions, PDF export enhancements , improved language spell checking, enhanced formula inputs and chart displays and the integration of extensions into the Help feature. Some of the more notable improvements are found in [...]
The Bookmarks Menu extension in OpenOffice.org
Posted in Jan 2008 on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you are an OpenOffice.org user who frequently accesses a document, such as your research paper, your grading sheet or your presentation, you will surely find the Bookmarks Menu extension in OpenOffice.org useful.
The Bookmarks Menu works like the Bookmarks tool (Favorites for Internet Explorer) in your web browser. However, it is capable of bookmarking [...]
The Case for Open Document Format in Government
Posted in Jan 2008 on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Democracy entails openness. In a democratic country, government documents should be open to public scrutiny and thus, freely accessible by anyone regardless of the person’s software choice.
Currently, many government agencies in this country still exchange, archive and distribute information using proprietary file formats such as .doc. .docx, .xls, .ppt and others.
Supposedly publicly-accessible documents [...]
ODF vs. OOXML – What’s the difference?
Posted in Jan 2008 on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just because a few countries in Asia have jumped onto the OOXML bandwagon does not mean that joining them is a good idea.
The Industrial Revolution at the end of the 18th century brought about mass production, increased productivity and gas powered vehicles. One century later, this is also blamed for the the marked increase in [...]
The OpenOffice.org Extensions Repository
Posted in Feb 2008 on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An extension is a computer program that is designed to be incorporated into another piece of software in order to enhance, or extend, the functionality. OpenOffice.org extensions are developed by individuals or organizations to add specific functionality to OOo. These extensions are freely available without licensing costs to anyone who wants to use it.
Until recently, [...]
Microsoft, Yahoo and Open Source
Posted in Feb 2008 on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s all over the news, and open source supporters are on a speculative mood. What are the implications of the imminent Microsoft – Yahoo! tie up? Undoubtedly, Microsoft will use this alliance against Google, a strong supporter of open source in order to protect its products from the threat of open source software. [...]
Document Freedom Day
Posted in March 2008 on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Freedom – the rallying cry for revolution, is the absence of restraint of various forms. Freedom of expression , or the ability to seek, receive and impart information or ideas, through various media, is a characteristic of a free society.
Free your documents
Documents play a key role in the construction of social reality (Searle, 1996) [...]
