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 [...]
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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 [...]
