Net Xpress: New office suite launched

The Document Foundation has just launched a new office suite called LibreOffice 3.3. The suite is a fork of the popular open-source office suite, OpenOffice.org. The launch marks the first stable release of the LibreOffice suite, which was developed by the developer community.
The LibreOffice suite includes the word processor Writer; Calc for spreadsheets; Impress for multimedia presentations; Draw for building diagrams and sketches; Base for database management; and Math, a simple equation editor. LibreOffice also includes a PDF file creator.

As with OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice is available on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
One of the best parts about the new suite is that it is free!
In addition to all the great features of OpenOffice.org, LibreOffice also offers:
** the ability to import SVG pictures into Writer and Draw;
** an improved WordPerfect import;
** Lotus Word Pro and MS Works import filters; and
** the ability to have one million rows in a Calc spreadsheet.
Minimum system requirements to run LibreOffice are as follows:
** On Windows: Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 or higher/XP/Vista/Windows 7; a Pentium-compatible processor (a Pentium III, Athlon or more-recent processor is recommended); 256 MB RAM (512 MB RAM recommended); at least 1.5 GB of free hard-disk space; and a video card with a 1024x768 resolution and at least 256 colors. In order to install the software on a Windows system, the user must have administrator rights. The download file size is 215MB.
** On Mac OS X: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or higher; an Intel or PowerPC processor; 512 MB RAM; 800 MB of free hard-disk space; and a video card with a 1024x768 resolution and at least 256 colors. The download size is 180MB for Intel and 184MB for PPC.
** On Linux: Linux kernel version 2.6.18 or higher; glibc2 version 2.5 or higher; gtk version 2.10.4 or higher; a Pentium-compatible processor (a Pentium III, Athlon or more-recent processor is recommended); 256MB RAM (512MB RAM recommended); at least 1.55GB of free hard-disk space; X Server with a 1024x768 resolution and at least 256 colors; Gnome 2.16 or higher, with the gail 1.8.6 and at-spi 1.7 packages or another compatible GUI such as KDE. The download file size for .rpm is 148MB (x86)/164MB (x64); for .deb the file size is 146MB (x86)/163MB (x64).

Last week, I wrote about the new distro called Ylmf OS. I forgot to add that if you decide to run the Live CD, don’t be discouraged if you see menus and other GUI text items written in Chinese. If you install the distro, the distro will display those items in the language that you choose during installation.

Intuition: Mom’s Personal Assistant is a productivity app created by IconApps, Inc. that was “designed by moms for moms to help you get things done.”
The app incorporates inspirational quotes along with its organizational tools. The app helps to organize calls, errands, family committments, grocery and wish lists and more. It even maps out your tasks and provides tips for home projects, entertaining and parties, food and health, kids’ activities and more.
The minimum requirements for running Intuition include an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad running iOS 3.0 or later. The download size is 5MB.
Learn more about Intuition by searching for "Intuition: Mom's Personal Assistant" on the iTunes store inside iTunes.

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