Archive for January, 2011

Note perfect

Monday, January 31st, 2011

If ever there was a class of software crying out for an open file format which any program could use, it must be music composition software. This is how music works!

From Open to Libre

Tuesday, January 25th, 2011

I see an announcement that LibreOffice has now passed its QA process, and has now been officially declared stable and ready for general use by the folks at The Document Foundation. The open-source community has been waiting for this announcement with interest. In its previous incarnation as OpenOffice.org, the software was an essential free replacement [...]

Money down the drain

Thursday, January 6th, 2011

Interesting thought: if your house was heat-proof, once you’d heated it to a comfortable temperature, you could switch off the central heating and never switch it on again. In fact, you’d need to open the windows from time to time to let the heat generated by everyday living escape. Government figures for 2009 show us [...]