One of the perqs of being a journalist is that I often hear about software and events before most people. A case in point is Writer's Tools, an extension for OpenOffice.org Writer being developed by ...

Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): The Writer's Tools extension adds a useful new menu to the popular, open source office suite OpenOffice.org that bakes convenient tools like Google Translate, an ...

Indexes and tables is the phrase that OpenOffice.org Writer uses for tables of contents (ToCs), indexes and bibliographies. The term also covers ToC variants, such as lists of illustrations or tables.

Since I'm testing the viability of running Ubuntu on a number of platforms, and paving the way to shift from Internet Explorer to Firefox 3.0, I might as well take a look at the viability of ...

OpenZone has announced PlusOffice Mac, a productivity software package for the Mac expected to be released in January, 2009 for Intel-based Macs. PlusOffice Mac is open-source software, and it shares ...

Using the free and open-source productivity suite OpenOffice.org can be a godsend for those that don’t want to hand over more money to Microsoft. Its word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, and ...

Pentaho is going places. By integrating its Reporting product into OpenOffice, it's actually going lots of places. Tens of millions of them. As announced today,With the integration of Pentaho’s ...

Interested in trying out the free OpenOffice.org 2.0 office suite without having to install it on your computer? Now’s your chance. That option became possible Tuesday when OpenOffice.org and online ...

As functionality traditionally associated with desktop applications moves to the Web, developers are looking for new ways to handle that computational heavy lifting on the server side. But if you need ...