User: jpmcc Date: 2008-05-22 18:00:19+0000 Modified: marketing/www/planet/atom.xml marketing/www/planet/index.html marketing/www/planet/opml.xml marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml
Log: Planet run at Thu May 22 19:00:14 BST 2008 File Changes: Directory: /marketing/www/planet/ ================================= File [changed]: atom.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/atom.xml?r1=1.475&r2=1.476 Delta lines: +47 -52 --------------------- --- atom.xml 2008-05-22 12:00:04+0000 1.475 +++ atom.xml 2008-05-22 18:00:12+0000 1.476 @@ -5,9 +5,32 @@ <link rel="self" href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml"/> <link href="http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/"/> <id>http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/atom.xml</id> - <updated>2008-05-22T12:00:21+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-05-22T18:00:28+00:00</updated> <generator uri="http://www.planetplanet.org/";>Planet/2.0 +http://www.planetplanet.org</generator> + <entry xml:lang="en"> + <title type="html">More OOo 3.0 Mac Reviews</title> + <link href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/807"/> + <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=807</id> + <updated>2008-05-22T14:06:09+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>Still in development and not scheduled to be a final release for almost four months, nevertheless OpenOffice 3.0 beta is garnering great reviews around the net.</p> +<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/">Erwin Tenhumberg</a> has recently pointed out three such reviews of the Mac OS X version:</p> +<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/another_cool_openoffice_org_review">Review One</a>: Reviewed on <a href="http://theappleblog.com/2008/05/12/openofficeorg-30-beta-rocks-aqua-on-intel/">The Apple Blog</a>: &#8220;The first noticeable item is how quickly OpenOffice 3.0 beta loads, even when compared with Microsoft Office 2008. In less than five seconds you are at the welcome screen ready to create your next masterpiece.&#8221;</p> +<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/more_openoffice_org_3_0">Review Two</a>: From a <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.apps/msg/027162e3a20b6810">Usenet posting you can read through Google Group</a>s: &#8220;It is more that three times as fast as NeoOffice and more than twice as fast than both MSOffice 2004 and 2008! - And until now i haven&#8217;t had a single &#8216;unexpected quit&#8217; with the last two builds of OOo3.0. - Also the fonts handling is quite a lot better than in NeoOffice and MSO2004/2008.&#8221;</p> +<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/cool_openoffice_org_3_0">Review Three</a>: Reviewed by a reader on Macintouch.com: &#8220;I&#8217;m very impressed with the first public release beta of OO for OS X. It is both faster and more stable than the Office 08 demo I tried out. Since I&#8217;m not working in a corporate setting and don&#8217;t need absolute compatibility with Microsoft, I see no reason to purchase Office 2008 for an Intel native office suite. The presentation module isn&#8217;t near as slick as Keynote but the word processing and spreadsheets are more capable than Pages and Numbers. If you need that extra functionality then give OO a try.&#8221;</p></content> + <author> + <name>Benjamin Horst</name> + <uri>http://www.solidoffice.com</uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org</title> + <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> + <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> + <updated>2008-05-22T18:00:17+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry xml:lang="en-us"> <title type="html">Huge Success for the ODF Community</title> <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/huge_success_for_the_odf"/> @@ -107,6 +130,24 @@ </source> </entry> + <entry> + <title type="html">Announcing the Sun Presenter Console</title> + <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/announcing_the_sun_presenter_console"/> + <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/8bd350863b2c00ed</id> + <updated>2008-05-21T13:04:58+00:00</updated> + <content type="html"><p>I would like to announce the public availability of the Sun Presenter Console (beta), previously known as Presenter Screen, previously known as Presenter View.</p><p>The Presenter Console extension supports presenters by showing information that is not visible to the audience.  A typical environment would be a laptop showing the Presenter Console and a connected beamer showing the actual presentation to the audience. Initially the Presenter Console extension shows a live preview of the current slide, a preview of the next slide and tool bar with navigational buttons and the current and elapsed time: <br /></p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Initial view of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/9/90/PresenterScreenMain.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenMain.jpg" /> </p><p>The presenter has access to the notes of the current slide:<br /></p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Notes view of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/0/00/PresenterScreenNotes.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenNotes.jpg" /></p><p>The slide overview gives easy and fast access to any slide of the presentation, handy not only in a Q&amp;A session: </p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Slide overview of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/d/de/PresenterScreenSlides.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenSlides.jpg" /></p><p>We have tried to make the Presenter Console as easily usable as possible by avoiding unnecessary buttons, options, features.  It automatically detects when there is only one display and does not show in this case. When there are at least two screens then the Presenter Console displays itself on the one that is not used by the presentation.</p><p>You can download the extension from the <a title="Presenter Console at the OpenOffice.org extension repository" href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/presenter-screen">extension repository</a>. More information can be found in the <a title="Presenter Console in the OpenOffice.org Wiki" href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Presenter_Screen">Wiki</a>.</p><p>Please note that this is a beta version. While fully functional, there are some minor problems as listed on the Wiki page. More importantly, we are interested in your feedback. You can add comments here or drop a note on the mailing lists, preferably to <a title="[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list" href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a></p><p> </p></content> + <author> + <name>Andre Fischer</name> + <uri></uri> + </author> + <source> + <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> + <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> + <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> + <updated>2008-05-22T18:00:19+00:00</updated> + </source> + </entry> + <entry xml:lang="en"> <title type="html">BBC Click discovers open source</title> <link href="http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/05/20/bbc-click-discovers-open-source/"/> @@ -148,7 +189,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-05-21T18:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-05-22T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -231,7 +272,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-05-21T18:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-05-22T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -357,7 +398,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-05-21T18:00:16+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-05-22T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -439,7 +480,7 @@ <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2008-05-22T12:00:17+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-05-22T18:00:19+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> @@ -461,53 +502,7 @@ <subtitle type="html">Home of The Tiny Guide to OpenOffice.org</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed"/> <id>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/category/openofficeorg/feed</id> - <updated>2008-05-21T18:00:16+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry> - <title type="html">New: OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta released</title> - <link href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_openoffice_org_3_01"/> - <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/3fdd899bbb31dc80</id> - <updated>2008-05-07T14:38:10+00:00</updated> - <content type="html"><p><b>OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta</b> (build BEA300_m2) has -been released.</p><p><br />If you find severe issues within this build please file them to -OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.<br /> -<br />For <b>US English</b> installation files please use the following link<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/index.html">http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/index.html</a> -</p><p><b>Localized builds</b> and <b>Language Packs</b> can be downloaded from one of the mirror servers listed at -<a title="OpenOffice.org extended mirrors" href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors#extmirrors">http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors#extmirrors</a><br />OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta files are within the <b>../extended/3.0.0beta</b> directory.<br /> -<br />MD5SUMS: -<br /><a title="Page containing MD5SUM checksums" href="http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/md5sums.html">http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/md5sums.html</a> - -</p></content> - <author> - <name>Joost Andrae</name> - <uri></uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader</title> - <link rel="self" href="http://www.google.co.uk/reader/public/atom/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast"/> - <id>tag:google.com,2005:reader/user/06203502505240591501/state/com.google/broadcast</id> - <updated>2008-05-22T12:00:17+00:00</updated> - </source> - </entry> - - <entry> - <title type="html">OpenOffice.org wins the 2008 Duke's Choice Award</title> - <link href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/05/openofficeorg-wins-2008-dukes-choice.html"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-3232084203099121639</id> - <updated>2008-05-07T10:27:41+00:00</updated> - <content type="html">OpenOffice.org wins the 2008 Duke's Choice Award for Fans' Choice. "The Duke's Choice Awards program recognizes the year's most influential Java technology-based applications submitted by developers and companies around the world. The winners are chosen by Vice President and Sun Fellow James Gosling, along with a panel of Java technology experts at Sun." Read more in the <a href="http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-05/sunflash.20080506.1.xml">official press release</a>.</content> - <author> - <name>floeff</name> - <email>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email> - <uri>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/</uri> - </author> - <source> - <title type="html">OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog</title> - <link rel="self" href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default"/> - <id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632</id> - <updated>2008-05-19T00:00:28+00:00</updated> + <updated>2008-05-22T18:00:17+00:00</updated> </source> </entry> File [changed]: index.html Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/index.html?r1=1.475&r2=1.476 Delta lines: +33 -38 --------------------- --- index.html 2008-05-22 12:00:05+0000 1.475 +++ index.html 2008-05-22 18:00:13+0000 1.476 @@ -34,10 +34,28 @@ <a href="rss20.xml"><img src="rss2.gif" alt="Link to RSS 2 feed" /></a> </div> -<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: May 22, 2008 12:00 PM GMT</em></p> +<p><em>Bloggings on marketing topics by project members - see <a href="#disclaimer">disclaimer</a>.<br />Last updated: May 22, 2008 06:00 PM GMT</em></p> <h2>May 22, 2008</h2> <h3> +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com"; title="SolidOffice » OpenOffice.org"> +Benjamin Horst</a> : +<a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/807";> +More OOo 3.0 Mac Reviews</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>Still in development and not scheduled to be a final release for almost four months, nevertheless OpenOffice 3.0 beta is garnering great reviews around the net.</p> +<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/";>Erwin Tenhumberg</a> has recently pointed out three such reviews of the Mac OS X version:</p> +<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/another_cool_openoffice_org_review";>Review One</a>: Reviewed on <a href="http://theappleblog.com/2008/05/12/openofficeorg-30-beta-rocks-aqua-on-intel/";>The Apple Blog</a>: “The first noticeable item is how quickly OpenOffice 3.0 beta loads, even when compared with Microsoft Office 2008. In less than five seconds you are at the welcome screen ready to create your next masterpiece.”</p> +<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/more_openoffice_org_3_0";>Review Two</a>: From a <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.apps/msg/027162e3a20b6810";>Usenet posting you can read through Google Group</a>s: “It is more that three times as fast as NeoOffice and more than twice as fast than both MSOffice 2004 and 2008! - And until now i haven’t had a single ‘unexpected quit’ with the last two builds of OOo3.0. - Also the fonts handling is quite a lot better than in NeoOffice and MSO2004/2008.”</p> +<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/cool_openoffice_org_3_0";>Review Three</a>: Reviewed by a reader on Macintouch.com: “I’m very impressed with the first public release beta of OO for OS X. It is both faster and more stable than the Office 08 demo I tried out. Since I’m not working in a corporate setting and don’t need absolute compatibility with Microsoft, I see no reason to purchase Office 2008 for an Intel native office suite. The presentation module isn’t near as slick as Keynote but the word processing and spreadsheets are more capable than Pages and Numbers. If you need that extra functionality then give OO a try.”</p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/807";>by Benjamin Horst at May 22, 2008 02:06 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> +<h3> <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/"; title="Erwin's StarOffice Tango"> Erwin Tenhumberg</a> : <a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/huge_success_for_the_odf";> @@ -115,6 +133,20 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> +<h3> +<a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader"> +GullFOSS</a> : +<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/announcing_the_sun_presenter_console";> +Announcing the Sun Presenter Console</a> +</h3> +<p> +<p>I would like to announce the public availability of the Sun Presenter Console (beta), previously known as Presenter Screen, previously known as Presenter View.</p><p>The Presenter Console extension supports presenters by showing information that is not visible to the audience.  A typical environment would be a laptop showing the Presenter Console and a connected beamer showing the actual presentation to the audience. Initially the Presenter Console extension shows a live preview of the current slide, a preview of the next slide and tool bar with navigational buttons and the current and elapsed time: <br /></p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Initial view of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/9/90/PresenterScreenMain.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenMain.jpg"; /> </p><p>The presenter has access to the notes of the current slide:<br /></p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Notes view of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/0/00/PresenterScreenNotes.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenNotes.jpg"; /></p><p>The slide overview gives easy and fast access to any slide of the presentation, handy not only in a Q&A session: </p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Slide overview of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/d/de/PresenterScreenSlides.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenSlides.jpg"; /></p><p>We have tried to make the Presenter Console as easily usable as possible by avoiding unnecessary buttons, options, features.  It automatically detects when there is only one display and does not show in this case. When there are at least two screens then the Presenter Console displays itself on the one that is not used by the presentation.</p><p>You can download the extension from the <a title="Presenter Console at the OpenOffice.org extension repository" href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/presenter-screen";>extension repository</a>. More information can be found in the <a title="Presenter Console in the OpenOffice.org Wiki" href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Presenter_Screen";>Wiki</a>.</p><p>Please note that this is a beta version. While fully functional, there are some minor problems as listed on the Wiki page. More importantly, we are interested in your feedback. You can add comments here or drop a note on the mailing lists, preferably to <a title="[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list" href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a></p><p> </p></p> +<p> +<em><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/announcing_the_sun_presenter_console";>by Andre Fischer at May 21, 2008 01:04 PM GMT</a></em> +</p> +<br /> +<hr /> +<br /> <h2>May 20, 2008</h2> <h3> <a href="http://www.mealldubh.org"; title="Meall Dubh » OpenOffice.org"> @@ -407,43 +439,6 @@ <br /> <hr /> <br /> -<h3> -<a href="" title="jpmcc's shared items in Google Reader"> -GullFOSS</a> : -<a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_openoffice_org_3_01";> -New: OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta released</a> -</h3> -<p> -<p><b>OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta</b> (build BEA300_m2) has -been released.</p><p><br />If you find severe issues within this build please file them to -OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.<br /> -<br />For <b>US English</b> installation files please use the following link<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/index.html";>http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/index.html</a> -</p><p><b>Localized builds</b> and <b>Language Packs</b> can be downloaded from one of the mirror servers listed at -<a title="OpenOffice.org extended mirrors" href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors#extmirrors";>http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors#extmirrors</a><br />OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta files are within the <b>../extended/3.0.0beta</b> directory.<br /> -<br />MD5SUMS: -<br /><a title="Page containing MD5SUM checksums" href="http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/md5sums.html";>http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/md5sums.html</a> - -</p></p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_openoffice_org_3_01";>by Joost Andrae at May 07, 2008 02:38 PM GMT</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> -<h3> -<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/"; title="OpenOffice.org Marketing Blog"> -OOo Marketeers</a> : -<a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/05/openofficeorg-wins-2008-dukes-choice.html";> -OpenOffice.org wins the 2008 Duke's Choice Award</a> -</h3> -<p> -OpenOffice.org wins the 2008 Duke's Choice Award for Fans' Choice. "The Duke's Choice Awards program recognizes the year's most influential Java technology-based applications submitted by developers and companies around the world. The winners are chosen by Vice President and Sun Fellow James Gosling, along with a panel of Java technology experts at Sun." Read more in the <a href="http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-05/sunflash.20080506.1.xml";>official press release</a>.</p> -<p> -<em><a href="http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/05/openofficeorg-wins-2008-dukes-choice.html";>by floeff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at May 07, 2008 10:27 AM BST</a></em> -</p> -<br /> -<hr /> -<br /> <a id="disclaimer" name="disclaimer"></a> <p><em>Disclaimer: all views expressed on this page are those of the individual contributors, and may not reflect the views of the File [changed]: opml.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/opml.xml?r1=1.475&r2=1.476 Delta lines: +1 -1 ------------------- --- opml.xml 2008-05-22 12:00:05+0000 1.475 +++ opml.xml 2008-05-22 18:00:14+0000 1.476 @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <opml version="1.1"> <head> <title>Marketing Planet</title> - <dateModified>Thu, 22 May 2008 12:00:21 +0000</dateModified> + <dateModified>Thu, 22 May 2008 18:00:28 +0000</dateModified> <ownerName>Marketing Project</ownerName> <ownerEmail>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</ownerEmail> </head> File [changed]: rss10.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss10.xml?r1=1.272&r2=1.273 Delta lines: +19 -25 --------------------- --- rss10.xml 2008-05-22 06:00:07+0000 1.272 +++ rss10.xml 2008-05-22 18:00:15+0000 1.273 @@ -13,10 +13,12 @@ <items> <rdf:Seq> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=807"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/huge_success_for_the_odf"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=507"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=262"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/openoffice_org_at_linuxtag_berlin"; /> + <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/8bd350863b2c00ed" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=506"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=805"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/interested_in_some_extra_money"; /> @@ -31,12 +33,20 @@ <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://standardsandfreedom.net/index.php/2008/05/09/openofficeorg-30-beta-creativity-extended/"; /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/5625bf3611dabd43" /> <rdf:li rdf:resource="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=797"; /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/3fdd899bbb31dc80" /> - <rdf:li rdf:resource="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-3232084203099121639" /> </rdf:Seq> </items> </channel> +<item rdf:about="http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=807";> + <title>Benjamin Horst: More OOo 3.0 Mac Reviews</title> + <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/807</link> + <content:encoded><p>Still in development and not scheduled to be a final release for almost four months, nevertheless OpenOffice 3.0 beta is garnering great reviews around the net.</p> +<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/">Erwin Tenhumberg</a> has recently pointed out three such reviews of the Mac OS X version:</p> +<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/another_cool_openoffice_org_review">Review One</a>: Reviewed on <a href="http://theappleblog.com/2008/05/12/openofficeorg-30-beta-rocks-aqua-on-intel/">The Apple Blog</a>: &#8220;The first noticeable item is how quickly OpenOffice 3.0 beta loads, even when compared with Microsoft Office 2008. In less than five seconds you are at the welcome screen ready to create your next masterpiece.&#8221;</p> +<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/more_openoffice_org_3_0">Review Two</a>: From a <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.apps/msg/027162e3a20b6810">Usenet posting you can read through Google Group</a>s: &#8220;It is more that three times as fast as NeoOffice and more than twice as fast than both MSOffice 2004 and 2008! - And until now i haven&#8217;t had a single &#8216;unexpected quit&#8217; with the last two builds of OOo3.0. - Also the fonts handling is quite a lot better than in NeoOffice and MSO2004/2008.&#8221;</p> +<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/cool_openoffice_org_3_0">Review Three</a>: Reviewed by a reader on Macintouch.com: &#8220;I&#8217;m very impressed with the first public release beta of OO for OS X. It is both faster and more stable than the Office 08 demo I tried out. Since I&#8217;m not working in a corporate setting and don&#8217;t need absolute compatibility with Microsoft, I see no reason to purchase Office 2008 for an Intel native office suite. The presentation module isn&#8217;t near as slick as Keynote but the word processing and spreadsheets are more capable than Pages and Numbers. If you need that extra functionality then give OO a try.&#8221;</p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-05-22T14:06:09+00:00</dc:date> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/huge_success_for_the_odf";> <title>Erwin Tenhumberg: Huge Success for the ODF Community</title> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/huge_success_for_the_odf</link> @@ -82,6 +92,13 @@ <content:encoded>OpenOffice.org will have a strong presence at <a href="http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/home/welcome.html">LinuxTag 2008 in Berlin</a>. In the Sun booth, OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta will be demo'd including two new OpenOffice.org extensions, the Sun PDF Import Extension and the Sun Presenter Console. Mozilla Thunderbird and Lightning will be shown as well. In addition, there will be quite a few OpenOffice.org sessions as part of the conference program.</content:encoded> <dc:date>2008-05-21T16:10:33+00:00</dc:date> </item> +<item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/8bd350863b2c00ed"> + <title>GullFOSS: Announcing the Sun Presenter Console</title> + <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/announcing_the_sun_presenter_console</link> + <content:encoded><p>I would like to announce the public availability of the Sun Presenter Console (beta), previously known as Presenter Screen, previously known as Presenter View.</p><p>The Presenter Console extension supports presenters by showing information that is not visible to the audience.  A typical environment would be a laptop showing the Presenter Console and a connected beamer showing the actual presentation to the audience. Initially the Presenter Console extension shows a live preview of the current slide, a preview of the next slide and tool bar with navigational buttons and the current and elapsed time: <br /></p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Initial view of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/9/90/PresenterScreenMain.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenMain.jpg" /> </p><p>The presenter has access to the notes of the current slide:<br /></p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Notes view of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/0/00/PresenterScreenNotes.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenNotes.jpg" /></p><p>The slide overview gives easy and fast access to any slide of the presentation, handy not only in a Q&amp;A session: </p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Slide overview of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/d/de/PresenterScreenSlides.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenSlides.jpg" /></p><p>We have tried to make the Presenter Console as easily usable as possible by avoiding unnecessary buttons, options, features.  It automatically detects when there is only one display and does not show in this case. When there are at least two screens then the Presenter Console displays itself on the one that is not used by the presentation.</p><p>You can download the extension from the <a title="Presenter Console at the OpenOffice.org extension repository" href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/presenter-screen">extension repository</a>. More information can be found in the <a title="Presenter Console in the OpenOffice.org Wiki" href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Presenter_Screen">Wiki</a>.</p><p>Please note that this is a beta version. While fully functional, there are some minor problems as listed on the Wiki page. More importantly, we are interested in your feedback. You can add comments here or drop a note on the mailing lists, preferably to <a title="[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list" href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a></p><p> </p></content:encoded> + <dc:date>2008-05-21T13:04:58+00:00</dc:date> + <dc:creator>Andre Fischer</dc:creator> +</item> <item rdf:about="http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=506";> <title>John McCreesh: BBC Click discovers open source</title> <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/05/20/bbc-click-discovers-open-source/</link> @@ -258,28 +275,5 @@ <p>Many of my other favorites appeared, such as GIMP, Eclipse, WordPress, Drupal, Frozen Bubble, the Nokia N800, OLPC XO, and more.</p></content:encoded> <dc:date>2008-05-07T22:16:48+00:00</dc:date> </item> -<item rdf:about="tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/3fdd899bbb31dc80"> - <title>GullFOSS: New: OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta released</title> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_openoffice_org_3_01</link> - <content:encoded><p><b>OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta</b> (build BEA300_m2) has -been released.</p><p><br />If you find severe issues within this build please file them to -OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.<br /> -<br />For <b>US English</b> installation files please use the following link<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/index.html">http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/index.html</a> -</p><p><b>Localized builds</b> and <b>Language Packs</b> can be downloaded from one of the mirror servers listed at -<a title="OpenOffice.org extended mirrors" href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors#extmirrors">http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors#extmirrors</a><br />OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta files are within the <b>../extended/3.0.0beta</b> directory.<br /> -<br />MD5SUMS: -<br /><a title="Page containing MD5SUM checksums" href="http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/md5sums.html">http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/md5sums.html</a> - -</p></content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-05-07T14:38:10+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>Joost Andrae</dc:creator> -</item> -<item rdf:about="tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887643299605448632.post-3232084203099121639"> - <title>OOo Marketeers: OpenOffice.org wins the 2008 Duke's Choice Award</title> - <link>http://ooomarketing.blogspot.com/2008/05/openofficeorg-wins-2008-dukes-choice.html</link> - <content:encoded>OpenOffice.org wins the 2008 Duke's Choice Award for Fans' Choice. "The Duke's Choice Awards program recognizes the year's most influential Java technology-based applications submitted by developers and companies around the world. The winners are chosen by Vice President and Sun Fellow James Gosling, along with a panel of Java technology experts at Sun." Read more in the <a href="http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-05/sunflash.20080506.1.xml">official press release</a>.</content:encoded> - <dc:date>2008-05-07T10:27:41+00:00</dc:date> - <dc:creator>floeff</dc:creator> -</item> </rdf:RDF> File [changed]: rss20.xml Url: http://marketing.openoffice.org/source/browse/marketing/www/planet/rss20.xml?r1=1.272&r2=1.273 Delta lines: +18 -24 --------------------- --- rss20.xml 2008-05-22 06:00:07+0000 1.272 +++ rss20.xml 2008-05-22 18:00:15+0000 1.273 @@ -8,6 +8,17 @@ <description>Marketing Planet - http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/</description> <item> + <title>Benjamin Horst: More OOo 3.0 Mac Reviews</title> + <guid>http://www.solidoffice.com/?p=807</guid> + <link>http://www.solidoffice.com/archives/807</link> + <description><p>Still in development and not scheduled to be a final release for almost four months, nevertheless OpenOffice 3.0 beta is garnering great reviews around the net.</p> +<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/">Erwin Tenhumberg</a> has recently pointed out three such reviews of the Mac OS X version:</p> +<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/another_cool_openoffice_org_review">Review One</a>: Reviewed on <a href="http://theappleblog.com/2008/05/12/openofficeorg-30-beta-rocks-aqua-on-intel/">The Apple Blog</a>: &#8220;The first noticeable item is how quickly OpenOffice 3.0 beta loads, even when compared with Microsoft Office 2008. In less than five seconds you are at the welcome screen ready to create your next masterpiece.&#8221;</p> +<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/more_openoffice_org_3_0">Review Two</a>: From a <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.mac.apps/msg/027162e3a20b6810">Usenet posting you can read through Google Group</a>s: &#8220;It is more that three times as fast as NeoOffice and more than twice as fast than both MSOffice 2004 and 2008! - And until now i haven&#8217;t had a single &#8216;unexpected quit&#8217; with the last two builds of OOo3.0. - Also the fonts handling is quite a lot better than in NeoOffice and MSO2004/2008.&#8221;</p> +<p><a href="http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/cool_openoffice_org_3_0">Review Three</a>: Reviewed by a reader on Macintouch.com: &#8220;I&#8217;m very impressed with the first public release beta of OO for OS X. It is both faster and more stable than the Office 08 demo I tried out. Since I&#8217;m not working in a corporate setting and don&#8217;t need absolute compatibility with Microsoft, I see no reason to purchase Office 2008 for an Intel native office suite. The presentation module isn&#8217;t near as slick as Keynote but the word processing and spreadsheets are more capable than Pages and Numbers. If you need that extra functionality then give OO a try.&#8221;</p></description> + <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 14:06:09 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>Erwin Tenhumberg: Huge Success for the ODF Community</title> <guid>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/huge_success_for_the_odf</guid> <link>http://blogs.sun.com/dancer/entry/huge_success_for_the_odf</link> @@ -57,6 +68,13 @@ <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 16:10:33 +0000</pubDate> </item> <item> + <title>GullFOSS: Announcing the Sun Presenter Console</title> + <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/8bd350863b2c00ed</guid> + <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/announcing_the_sun_presenter_console</link> + <description><p>I would like to announce the public availability of the Sun Presenter Console (beta), previously known as Presenter Screen, previously known as Presenter View.</p><p>The Presenter Console extension supports presenters by showing information that is not visible to the audience.  A typical environment would be a laptop showing the Presenter Console and a connected beamer showing the actual presentation to the audience. Initially the Presenter Console extension shows a live preview of the current slide, a preview of the next slide and tool bar with navigational buttons and the current and elapsed time: <br /></p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Initial view of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/9/90/PresenterScreenMain.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenMain.jpg" /> </p><p>The presenter has access to the notes of the current slide:<br /></p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Notes view of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/0/00/PresenterScreenNotes.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenNotes.jpg" /></p><p>The slide overview gives easy and fast access to any slide of the presentation, handy not only in a Q&amp;A session: </p><p><img vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0" align="bottom" alt="Slide overview of the Presenter Console extension" src="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/thumb/d/de/PresenterScreenSlides.jpg/300px-PresenterScreenSlides.jpg" /></p><p>We have tried to make the Presenter Console as easily usable as possible by avoiding unnecessary buttons, options, features.  It automatically detects when there is only one display and does not show in this case. When there are at least two screens then the Presenter Console displays itself on the one that is not used by the presentation.</p><p>You can download the extension from the <a title="Presenter Console at the OpenOffice.org extension repository" href="http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/presenter-screen">extension repository</a>. More information can be found in the <a title="Presenter Console in the OpenOffice.org Wiki" href="http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Presenter_Screen">Wiki</a>.</p><p>Please note that this is a beta version. While fully functional, there are some minor problems as listed on the Wiki page. More importantly, we are interested in your feedback. You can add comments here or drop a note on the mailing lists, preferably to <a title="[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list" href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a></p><p> </p></description> + <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 13:04:58 +0000</pubDate> +</item> +<item> <title>John McCreesh: BBC Click discovers open source</title> <guid>http://www.mealldubh.org/?p=506</guid> <link>http://www.mealldubh.org/index.php/2008/05/20/bbc-click-discovers-open-source/</link> @@ -245,30 +263,6 @@ <p>Many of my other favorites appeared, such as GIMP, Eclipse, WordPress, Drupal, Frozen Bubble, the Nokia N800, OLPC XO, and more.</p></description> <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 22:16:48 +0000</pubDate> </item> -<item> - <title>GullFOSS: New: OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta released</title> - <guid>tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/3fdd899bbb31dc80</guid> - <link>http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/new_openoffice_org_3_01</link> - <description><p><b>OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta</b> (build BEA300_m2) has -been released.</p><p><br />If you find severe issues within this build please file them to -OpenOffice.org's bug tracking system IssueTracker.<br /> -<br />For <b>US English</b> installation files please use the following link<br /><a title="Download page" href="http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/index.html">http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/index.html</a> -</p><p><b>Localized builds</b> and <b>Language Packs</b> can be downloaded from one of the mirror servers listed at -<a title="OpenOffice.org extended mirrors" href="http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors#extmirrors">http://distribution.openoffice.org/mirrors#extmirrors</a><br />OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta files are within the <b>../extended/3.0.0beta</b> directory.<br /> -<br />MD5SUMS: -<br /><a title="Page containing MD5SUM checksums" href="http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/md5sums.html">http://download.openoffice.org/3.0beta/md5sums.html</a> - 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"The Duke's Choice Awards program recognizes the year's most influential Java technology-based applications submitted by developers and companies around the world. The winners are chosen by Vice President and Sun Fellow James Gosling, along with a panel of Java technology experts at Sun." Read more in the <a href="http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2008-05/sunflash.20080506.1.xml">official press release</a>.</description> - <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 10:27:41 +0000</pubDate> - <author>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (floeff)</author> -</item> </channel> </rss> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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