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No more need for portable AbiWord

Submitted by wfpearson on March 23, 2006 - 12:03pm

I just got a email newsletter from Linspire. They just released an Ajax word processor. Go to www.ajaxwrite.com and you have a fullfeatured word processor in a browser window. This is nothing new except for you can open edit and save Microsoft Word documents.

From the newsletter:

ajaxWrite is a powerful word processor that can read and write Microsoft Word formatted documents. Anytime you need a word processor, need to open a .doc file or edit a .doc file, simply point your Firefox browser at www.ajaxWrite.com and in seconds a full-featured program will be loaded. For 90 percent of the people in the world, the need to buy Microsoft Word just vanished. This won't make Microsoft happy, but software users should be very excited that software just got cheaper, immediate and modern.

Realmedia files

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 21, 2006 - 3:42pm

Is there any way to play realmedia files on a pc that I can't install codecs on? Size isn't an issue. I searched through the forum and have the unfortunate feeling that there isn't...

NIST Internet Time Service

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Submitted by dougdunc on March 20, 2006 - 4:30pm

Here is an app that I've used for years on my desktops, that lends itself quite well to portability on USB drives.

It's the actual NIST Internet Time Service or NIST as commonly referred to. It's a single self executing file (exe), and I'm using it right now on my USB drive to accurately set the time on a PCs internal clock via any internet connection.

It's a handy little tool for use as part of any general tune-up on a friend or customer's PC.

The app can be downloaded from NIST Internet Time Service, at:
http://tf.nist.gov/service/its.htm

Next Steps, Dedicated Server Soon

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Submitted by John T. Haller on March 16, 2006 - 10:33pm

As I've hinted at in-forum and told several people offline, the site has gotten far more popular and in a much shorter timeframe than expected... causing several performance issues with the current host. That's why it's been offline a couple times in the last week. And, that's actually one of the reasons you haven't seen releases of Portable Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org, ClamWin, GIMP, and why VLC and Miranda haven't been stuck on the main page. A single new release with a spike in traffic would kill the site/hosting account. That's also why setting up the more community-participation aspects of the site has been dragging.

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