It would appear that many news organisations have picked up on the OpenOffice Aqua news wrongly. OpenOffice are only going to preview the latest Aqua build at the OpenOffice conference and Apple Expo in Paris, next month. Pages that have picked up on the story and claim that the OpenOffice Mac Porting Team are going… Continue reading OpenOffice Aqua picked up wrong
Month: August 2006
OpenOffice Aqua is coming along nicely
I’ve been playing around with one of Eric Bachard’s recent Intel OpenOffice Aqua builds. Although it crashes a lot, it does work to some degree. The crash reporter has a crashing bug in it so I had to disable it using the startup switch -norestore. Eric had said to me not to run the registration… Continue reading OpenOffice Aqua is coming along nicely
Updated Mac Website plan
Please look at slides 11 – 13, as these contain all the changes. Primarily, I have added what I think should be in the user and developer sections of the mac porting web site. http://smsm1.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ooo/MacPortingWebSite.pdfhttp://smsm1.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ooo/MacPortingWebSite.odp To see the current draft please look at http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/testing/index.html
Google Labs
It would appear from the Google Labs that Google SMS (UK) has graduated from the labs. It used to work. But doesn’t any more! All you get now is a message which says “Google SMS is currently not available in the UK. The service is still in beta, and we’re working hard to make it… Continue reading Google Labs
Dell 4 million battery recall
It would appear that Dell is getting a lot of publicity about the 4 million laptop batteries that are being recalled. OK I’m not going to say that Apple is perfect, though it would appear that it took Dell quite some time to acknowledge the issue. Well over a year!