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« on: Jan 29, 2005, 08:04 am »
you really want to try actual calendars then try the sunbird program from the mozilla project
downside is that the program is still in development... up side is that it will always be free because it is open source software
i've been using it in conjuction with their Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client on my design computer - i found that haveing ms word did some damage to the windows operating system and i ditched it.
obviously that means that i don't have a big word proccessor program like Word or spreadsheet program like Excel on that computer but i got hold of a program called OpenOffice (guess what it's open source! which means FREE!) which started to be developed by Sun Microsystems before they buddied up with Microslave - i mean Microsoft
it'll read and edit all the same document filetypes that the the MS Office product does and for most users is just fine for doing things
on top of all that... it converts to .pdf files... very nice feature to have when your posting your resume on a website you don't have to worry about screen resolutions and printer margins cuz it keeps your formatting and everyone can read it... even if they don't have MS Word
you can find those products @
http://www.mozilla.org
http://www.openoffice.org
downside is that the program is still in development... up side is that it will always be free because it is open source software
i've been using it in conjuction with their Firefox browser and Thunderbird email client on my design computer - i found that haveing ms word did some damage to the windows operating system and i ditched it.
obviously that means that i don't have a big word proccessor program like Word or spreadsheet program like Excel on that computer but i got hold of a program called OpenOffice (guess what it's open source! which means FREE!) which started to be developed by Sun Microsystems before they buddied up with Microslave - i mean Microsoft
it'll read and edit all the same document filetypes that the the MS Office product does and for most users is just fine for doing things
on top of all that... it converts to .pdf files... very nice feature to have when your posting your resume on a website you don't have to worry about screen resolutions and printer margins cuz it keeps your formatting and everyone can read it... even if they don't have MS Word
you can find those products @
http://www.mozilla.org
http://www.openoffice.org