The LifeType team has released a new bugfix release (1.0.2) . Note: LifeType is the software powering this blog

Open Source, On the Net

I have found the most useful Firefox extension (no software development related), rikaichan . It allows you to check the meanings of the words on Japanese text and query information about a particular kanji written on the page. See it in action:

On the Net

Firefox 1.5 has been released to the mirrors in preparation for the official release in the following hours. Download it before the servers become overloaded, better yet, use one of the mirrors (navigate up to firefox/releases/1.5/ )

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The OpenOffice team recently released version 2.0 , and in my opinion it is reaching with each release to Microsoft Office in features. But now a new kind of attack is appearing on the net: performance comparisons . I will not say that OpenOffice do not need some tunning and design...

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The people at Ars technica has written a good introduction to the future shell for Windows systems: MSH (if I remember correctly it will not be launched with Vista but with a future Windows Server release). It looks that Microsoft is really taking into account that the GUI is not good for...

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