Finally! We all know about OpenOffice.org, the feature-rich, free and comparable alternative to Microsoft Office. As a result, I can only speculate, corporate software costs and piracy are on a decline. Rejoice! ... Rejoice?! ...

But wait, OOo is a slow, buggy, memory and disk hog and it relies on Java. So what are we to do? ... If you rely on your office suite, continue using and supporting OOo. Thanks to the genius of Open Source software, it'll keep getting better and it won't ever cost you a dime. However, if you're only a casual user, like me, you might look for another alternative.

I chose AbiWord and found it to be an excellent choice for me. It takes up less disk space, it's full of features and, as a pleasant surprise, it's much faster.

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I'm currently on a holiday vacation in Malaysia in a place where I couldn't previously get a reliable Internet connection. I came mentally prepared to take a break from all of my Internet activities, but I've discovered a wonderful new (to me) device that allows a "broadband" connection through the same network that mobile telephones use. It's not exactly plug-and-play, but it's close.

Here's a quick and easy one.

If you find an interesting Firefox extension that is identified as not compatible with your current version of Firefox, add a new boolean key in the about:config interface named extensions.checkCompatibility and set it to false. After this, your "incompatible" extensions will still be loaded when Firefox starts.

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... I'm going to try a different angle...  I'm going to write articles about things I don't know.  They'll be shorter and involve less research, but they'll be very interesting (at least to me :) ). ...