ShareThisThere’s been quite a bit of buzz recently after it was announced that OpenOffice 3 was due in September. It seems, however, most people still aren’t aware of what’s in store. read more | digg story

ShareThisI discovered Miro in my reading a few days ago and easily installed it using Synaptic Package Manager in Ubuntu Gutsy. Miro is an incredible resource and its available for Linux, Macintosh and Windows. It's an RSS video aggregator. There are 3408 channels to choose from and includes MSNBC, PBS, Diggnation. Covering everything from activism, environment, open source, education, comedy, business, religion, sports and travel. I recommend you install it, try it and recommend it to your friends.

ShareThisThere's an old axiom that when the teacher is ready the pupil or pupils will present themselves.  Today at work I sat down in our high school library to install software on a new MacBook. A student next to me had an older Dell Inspiron 1100 and I asked him if it was his and how much he'd paid for it. He said he traded an XBox 360 for it. He was running Windows 2000 and was using Microsoft Write to do some word processing.

ShareThisRecently school districts across Western New York State have been seriously considering whether or not they really need Microsoft Office for all users. Even though school districts can acquire Microsoft Office for as little as $55 per license, that's still costly in a time of declining budgets. School districts that have a thousand or more student, staff and faculty desktops could save $55,000 or more by switching to Open Office. Add to the cost savings for the school districts is the issue of interoperability with the home user and also Macintosh users.