Archive for April, 2009

Comment Bubbles in Open Office 3.0

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Open Office 3.0 has those spiffy comment bubbles that you may be accustomed to in MS Word. However, they appear outside of the margins in your screen (rather than inside the margins in MS Word).
This is all fine and good if you’re collaborating completely online, but if you wanted to print the paper with the [...]

Free Cloud Computing is Here!

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

There’s a service called iCloud that offers you 3GB of free cloud computing space! It’s a bit limited, but - hey - it’s free. I haven’t played around with it yet. I’m about to go do that now.

Create PDFs in OpenOffice 3.0

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

It’s actually much easier than you might think…

…that’s pretty much it. The steps are pretty intuitive after that.

Skype and Ubuntu 9.04

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

I’ve been running the release candidate of Ubuntu 9.04 - So far everything works great. The only issue I’ve run into is that Skype seemed to stop working.
The issue is easily fixed by changing some of the audio settings. Ubuntu 9.04 uses pulse audio, and you need to let Skype know that you want it [...]

Try Ubuntu Without Changes to Your Computer

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

So you want to try out Ubuntu and see if it’s the right fit for you, but you don’t want to make  drastic changes. Fortunately, there are a lot of ways to do this. You can get a taste for Ubuntu before you cut any cords.
This makes good practical sense. Most problems with Ubuntu come [...]

Logical Notation in OpenOffice 3.0

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

I’ve been posting tips and tricks for open source software at my blog.  I’m going to start off by posting links to some of that old material.
A lot of academics have need for specialized notion (e.g, logical notation and mathematical operators).
Here’s a great way to program the AutoCorrect feature OpenOffice 3.0 to insert the whatever [...]

Welcome

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Open SUNY is a project designed to promote and support the implementation of open source software at State University of New York at Fredonia.
Learn more about us here.