Leslie Franke

The Creative Commons group is developing a mobile library to deliver editions of ebooks to mobile phones and wireless PDAs. According to their website “Over the coming months the number of collections will grow to include thousands of titles available under Creative Commons license, in the
public domain, and from leading publishers.”

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eReader.com is offering a free ebook a day for the month of December. Go to http://www.ereader.com/promo to recieve a new ebook every 24 hours.

I have been playing around with OpenOffice, on a Windows XP computer, for awhile now. For those who do not know OpenOffice is a free office suite, smiliar in nature to Microsoft Office. OpenOffice includes applications for word processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. While I do not consider myself a power user, I have been able to use OpenOffice for all of my word processing and spreadsheet needs, instead of Word 2000 and Excel 2000. Compatibility with Word 2000 is usually close to perfect. Compatibility with Excel 2000 is not as good but good enough to allow the sharing of documents. Some spreadsheets had to be changed somewhat due to differences in the way Open Office handles things.

OpenOffice also had two neat options that I use often, the ability to generate PDF files,in Adobe’s Portable Document Format, and the ability to export presentation documents to Macromedia’s Flash format. If you are looking for a free alternative to Microsoft Office, check out OpenOffice. I would recommend OpenOffice to anyone who wants a reasonably powerful word processor and spreadsheet program.

The current stable release and the preview release for OpenOffice 2.0 can be download from here.

I have updated the Crystal, Crystal Kids, and Noia ZLauncher themes to make them compatible with ZLauncher 5. Additions include adding plug-in panel images, a CSD active icon, a dormant Call icon, a GPRS active icon, a GPRS attached icon, and a roaming icon. Changes include an improved look and layout of left and right side tabs, and switched the images for several icon functions to better reflect their purpose.

Get the updated themes from here.

I have now updated the iPalm Theme to work with ZLauncher 5. The following additions were made: Plug-in Panel images, CSD Active icon, Dormant Call icon, GPRS Active icon, GPRS Attached icon, Roaming icon. The following changes were made: Improved look and layout of left and right side tabs, Switched the image for several icon functions to better reflect their purpose.

Updated Screen Shot:

I have put together a Crystal Kids Tungsten DIA graffiti skin for use with SkinDIA!.

Download link: Crystal Kids DIA Skin

Firefox 1.0, a web browser from Mozilla.org, is now available for download. Features include Tabbed Browsing, Smarter Search and FastFind, Hassle-Free Downloading, Live Bookmarks, Extension and Theme Support, and more.

Download Firefox from Mozilla.org.