On April 30, the OpenOffice community will release the beta version of the new OpenOffice 3.0. Over at OpenOffice.org Ninja, I found some screenshots of some of the new features that will be present in the 3.0 version. Of particular interest to writers will be the option to display document facing pages and the revision to Notes, the commenting feature:
The new Notes2. Click on the image above for a larger version.
Mac native, too...
The OS X build of OO 3.x is supposed to be (finally) OS X native, which means I won't need X11 or NeoOffice to have a "native" release on my system.
Because our writing program wants students to use revision features, any improvements to those are welcomed.
Yeah. That's big news, too.
Yeah. That's big news, too.
One nice thing about it. Let's bet that OO does better than Microsoft and always releases the Mac OSX version at the same time as the Windows version. LOL
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That's GREAT news about the comments. That was one of the main problems I had with it, since I use comments and autotext (now "building blocks") for grading papers. The students can see the comments with OO, but admittedly it was lame. This new system looks better.
BTW, don't ever, ever, *EVER* install a facebook module called "Compare Hotness." EVER.
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BTW: I wasn't planning on it
I wasn't planning on installing it. It takes a certain kind of idiot to install a Facebook module called "Compare Hotness." I'm a different kind of idiot ;-)
But do tell us about your experiences now that you have made people curious.
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Well, I got something in my
Well, I got something in my notifications about "Someone has sent you hotness!" or whatever, so naturally I was curious. I installed it, and then it asked me to compare pictures from people in my profile and say which ones I thought were hotter. I didn't think it was a good idea, but it said very clearly that the friends would not be notified (or at least I thought that's what it said). I thought it was an anonymous type deal.
Anyway, I clicked a few pictures at random just to see what would happen, and then thought better of it and tried to cancel out of it. I *thought* I had canceled and that was the end of it. However, this morning I had some notifications about "Matt has compared your hotness and you won!!" type thing. I was flabbergasted. So, basically the people I clicked think that I find someone them hotter than someone else (I hope at least that part is anonymous).
At any rate, I am appalled at the shoddiness of this app, embarrassed, and hope to God the people who got that crap will just delete it instantly and think no more about it. Egads. If I've offended somebody with that stupid thing I'll never forgive myself for it.
My warning is not to install any of those stupid apps. Apparently, they can't be trusted to do what they say, and could lead to all sorts of stupidity. I'm really upset about it.
I'm not going to install any more after this.
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I hope you didn't say . . .
Geez. I hope you didn't say "not hot" to the wife's profile. LOL
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Charlie | cyberdash
Well, at least you didn't do THIS
Yes, Matt, shows a lapse in your savvy factor, which is usually astronomically high (remember the possibly fabricated Swedish University?), but at least you didn't do this:
A week or two ago, I got an email with the subject line "Obscene Links" from a person who once adjuncted for us. The email cc: list included dozens of other .edu addresses, some of which I recognized as fellow Comp folk responsible for hiring at their institutions. The text warned us that "A porno website has used my name in one of its 'films'. Apparently I am the 'poster' of 'sex with teen skateboarders,' or something to that effect. I would like to see if anyone would be willing to help me in investigating and prosecuting this crime against me." He then was kind enough to include the offending link.
Soon after, a followup message, "Pornographic Site," alerted us, "DO NOT TRY TO ACCESS THESE SITES--THEY WILL CRASH YOUR COMPUTER," and gave further updates on the scandal.
Curious, I sent the links to a hacker friend (I wasn't going to check them out for more reasons than just that they might crash my computer, thank you very much), who reported back: "This is just another one of the million pages on the internet that are dynamically generated link builders. They are built on the fly, from keywords, and they work by redirecting traffic to sites, thusly increasing their GoogleRank."
So, basically, this person committed a case of cyber-suicide, professionally, thanks to his ignorance of dynamically generated link builders. I think maybe there's a lesson here?
And the lesson is-- Go hide
And the lesson is--
Go hide in the closet with your shotgun and your Jack Daniels 'cuz the robot ninja squirrels are coming! OMG there's one now!
Never trust nobody never and stuff. People are robot ninja squirrels.
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don't be pickin' on Matt now
I'm just as bad. I keep sending myself links to porno spam sites, and paypal account requests, and banks I don't even remember opening accounts at keep telling me to log in and provide my information. I don't even remember sending the messages or opening the accounts for nearly every bank in the nation. What's up with that? Alzheimers?
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