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Portable OpenOffice.org 2.01 Released
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on Wed Jan 04, 2006 08:31 AM
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from the good-ideas-are-good-ideas dept.
VeryVito writes "Portableapps.com has released Portable OpenOffice.org 2.01 -- the complete office suite you can run from a USB drive for complete access to both your files and your office apps -- anywhere you go. More than just a neat idea, some say it's a perfect example of "the kind of innovation developers can make when they don't have to worry about selling as many licenses of their work as possible." I don't imagine we'll see a portable Microsoft Office suite any time soon."
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Portable Microsoft Office (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://www.thebrickt...assacre/jg21_11.html | Last Journal: Tuesday December 20 2005, @06:19AM)
Any computer will have a browser (and connectivity), therefore MS Office will be omnipresent. You won't need to carry it around on a flash driver.
Re:Portable Microsoft Office (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://honeypot.net/ | Last Journal: Friday April 07 2006, @09:33AM)
I think it may be a while before someone edits CorpFinancialsAndCustomerList.doc at a rented terminal.
Re:Portable Microsoft Office (Score:4, Insightful)
(http://www.knology.net/~kfulks)
And then when you read the fine print, you see that there is a clause that says that Microsoft now owns all rights to any data that is produced in this application. And for it to truly be portable, the data would have to be stored on their server as well, so how could you argue with the fine print after you discover it. Your document would simply disappear if you started to argue with them. Because they own the server, the application, and control the data.
Re:Portable Microsoft Office (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://www.example.com/)
Portable Firefox (Score:5, Informative)
(http://bitkari.com/)
This is very useful for me as I'm otherwise forced to use IE on the university computers. Neat.
this is a great series (Score:2)
(http://www.atomjax.com/)
Suite! If I could only work on a beach in Hawaii (Score:5, Funny)
let me (Score:2, Insightful)
(Last Journal: Thursday November 20 2003, @05:55AM)
THIS JUST ROCKS!
Now I can:
# Carry my web browser with all my favorite bookmarks
# Carry my calendar with all my appointments
# Carry my email client with all my contacts and settings
# Carry my instant messenger and my buddy list
# Carry my whole office suite along with my documents and presentations
# Carry my antivirus program and other computer utilities
# Carry all my important passwords and account information securely
It's all been done before. (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://indianaobserver.com/)
Sure this is better but it has been done before.
Big achievment? (Score:3, Informative)
Translation (Score:2, Insightful)
(http://www.thestollfamily.us/)
"This is exactly the kind of innovation developers can make when they don't have to worry about selling as many licenses of their work as possible"
Translation:
"This is exactly the kind of innovation developers can make when they don't have to worry about how many people find their software useful."
There's a full release ahead of us?!? (Score:2)
(http://honeypot.net/ | Last Journal: Friday April 07 2006, @09:33AM)
How'd they get OpenOffice.org 2.1 (dropping the leading zero) when the rest of us only have 2.0.1?
Remember, folks, those periods are separators and not decimals.
</pedant>
wireless USB (Score:1)
(http://skynare.googlepages.com/ | Last Journal: Saturday October 21 2006, @07:07AM)
Not without nift, but... (Score:1)
Portable web server? (Score:2, Funny)
Shame it's still 144Mb Installed... (Score:1)
Windows Only? (Score:4, Interesting)
portable MS Office suite soon (Score:2, Funny)
(http://justin.sharewith.us/)
why not?
Author AND reference (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://slashdot.org/ | Last Journal: Thursday July 29 2004, @08:47AM)
Oh, and the portable apps site seems to be 403. Slashdotted, maybe?
As the links seems dead now: (Score:3, Informative)
(http://www.ledow.org.uk/)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/portableoo/ [sourceforge.net]
can this work from other devices (Score:2)
(http://www.suninternetcafe.co.uk/ | Last Journal: Wednesday March 15 2006, @08:58AM)
with wireless built in I could see it working as a nifty little server.
What could you put in one gig?
If you could run apache on CE now that could be fun and quiet very quiet.
actually ahem
http://www.rainer-keuchel.de/software.html [rainer-keuchel.de]
looks like you can
just a thought
Innovation... (Score:1)
MS Office does not need to be portable.... (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://www.card-central.com/)
403 Forbidden (Score:1, Funny)
I use it! (Score:2)
(http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/)
IE at my workplace sucks more than usual because all the settings are locked down & we can't change so much as the default start page.
Portable Firefox was a godsend, initially running off a flash drive, and then moving onto a USB hard drive, which subsequently received all the rest of the portable apps. OOo is a bit slow to start, but it's nice to have the ODF support available.
Now if somebody could just create an extension so I could use the same profile for both my home Linux FF and work XP FF, I'd be really happy :o)
Integration (Score:2, Interesting)
(http://loudorangecat.com/)
That may truly give Microsoft's Office a run for its money.
Comments?
Server down. GCache (Score:1, Informative)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=cache%3Ahttp% 3A%2F%2Fportableapps.com%2Fapps%2Foffice%2Fsuites% 2Fportable_openoffice [google.com]
Damn Small Lunux on USB (Score:2, Informative)
(http://www.deepnines.com/)
linux thumbdrives (Score:2)
(http://blueskytech.blogspot.com/)
Another one bites the dust... (Score:2)
Google cache of home page is here: http://google.com/search?q=cache:4xtQ3HrcVacJ:por
Which begs the question (Score:5, Interesting)
(http://marshonsmacs.blogspot.com/)
Sell it for $5 more than the cheapest equivalent capacity stick, or about the same as a branded stick and let the profits go to the developers.
$50 for 512MB portable office is cheap, especially if all a noob has to do to install it is plug it into a USB slot and double click the application. My poorly wired consumer brain is reluctant to shell out for software on a CD, if only becuase they're slow and you know their practically free to make. I'd probably buy an office on a stick because I know if I didn't like the software at least I'd still have something that I still have some use for.
Site Down, Working On It (Score:5, Informative)
(http://johnhaller.com/)
Until then, you can view the Google Cache of the older Portable OpenOffice release [216.239.51.104] and get the new release from the SourceForge Portable OpenOffice.org project page
If it can be this small (Score:2)
I don't use much beyond the basic functionality of OO anyway. Maybe I should just use the portable version on my home PC
Why can't all Windows apps be portable? (Score:2)
I really miss the good ol' days of MacOS apps where you could just copy the stupid App folder (and in some cases JUST the app) and get a complete working copy.
Portable Open Office...It's Called CD rom (Score:4, Interesting)
(http://ludditelounge.blogspot.com/)
btw...If you want professionally printed OO 1.1.4 in bulk, I've got'em.
portable application (Score:1)
2.0 Not working on FreeBSD (Score:2)
Slashdotted (Score:2)
(Last Journal: Friday October 26, @01:12AM)
When I looked for TFA just now, I realized that these roll-your-own "I'm slashdotted" pages just don't make sense on today's internet. Would someone please petition the W3C to expand the HTTP standard to include a
"409: Site Temporarily Unavailable: Blame Slashdot"
page?
TIA,
Don't need one (Score:2)
(http://syberghost.livejournal.com/)
More portable apps! (Score:5, Informative)
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]
This one will run from your key, but it does write to the registry which portable apps should not do. Then again, they don't advertise this as a portable app. Once you use it on a machine and configure it, it will remember your settings on that machine of course. Handy if you are locked down at work from installing software but you need it occasionally.
Bulk Rename Utility - http://www.jimwillsher.co.uk/Site/Software/Softwar e_Intro.php [jimwillsher.co.uk]
a utility which allows the rapid renaming of files and folders, based upon flexible selection criteria. Download the zip version for portability.
FeedReader - http://www.feedreader.com/ [feedreader.com]
This project is currently dead, but it works from USB wonderfully.
FoxitReader - http://www.foxitsoftware.com/bbs/index.php [foxitsoftware.com]
A PDF reader that works very quickly (kind of like Adobe used to about 6 years ago).
Miranda - http://www.miranda-im.org/ [miranda-im.org]
A powerful and flexible multiprotocol IM client with loads of plugins. Download the zip version for portability.
mIRC - http://www.mirc.com/ [mirc.com]
Everyones favorite IRC app. Has always been portable.
PortableFileZilla - http://portableapps.com/ [portableapps.com]
Portable FileZilla is the popular FileZilla FTP client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your server list and settings with you.
PortableFirefox - http://portableapps.com/ [portableapps.com]
Portable Firefox is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser packaged as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.
PortableNVU - http://portableapps.com/ [portableapps.com]
Portable NVU is the easy-to-use NVU web editor packaged as a portable app, so you can edit your website on the go.
PortableOpenOffice - http://portableapps.com/ [portableapps.com]
Portable OpenOffice.org is the popular OpenOffice.org office suite -- including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database -- packaged as a portable app
PortableSunbird - http://portableapps.com/ [portableapps.com]
Portable Sunbird is the handy Mozilla Sunbird calendar and task manager packaged as a portable app, so you can take your calendar and to do list with you.
PortableThunderbird - http://portableapps.com/ [portableapps.com]
Portable Thunderbird is the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your email, address book and account settings with you.
Snippy - http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/ [bhelpuri.net]
Snippy is a small utility that captures an area of your screen to your clipboard to paste into other applications.
AleJenJes Countdown Timer - http://www.gonebowlin.com/freeware.html [gonebowlin.com]
It is a simple countdown timer where you enter the starting time in hours, minutes & seconds and it counts down to zero. Not needed often, but handy as can be for those few instances you do need one.
Unit Conversion Utility - http://www.jimwillsher.co.uk/Site/Software/UCU_Int ro.html [jimwillsher.co.uk]
Unit Conversion U
big deal? (Score:1)
(http://mjb.de.tc/)
Re:Slashdot deal with Microsoft? (Score:5, Insightful)
(http://jostein.kjonigsen.net/)
And some people are paranoid.
Get some sense of proportion. It's a link. It's actually a link to a product you have to buy. And do you honestly believe that there still are people on this planet using computers that haven't heard about MS Office yet?
Christ. Talk about overreaction.
Re:Slashdot deal with Microsoft? (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, that must be it.
"This OpenOffice story, which focused on a feature it had that MS Office didn't, was brought to you by Microsoft."
"Microsoft. We're gonna mess with your heads."
Re:Slashdot deal with Microsoft? (Score:3, Informative)
Cheers.
Re:Slashdot deal with Microsoft? (Score:3, Funny)
(http://www.nerdzapper.com/)
Let's all go click on it now.
Re:Slashdot deal with Microsoft? (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:Slashdot deal with Microsoft? (Score:3, Insightful)
(http://rootlinux.com.br/ | Last Journal: Saturday March 17 2007, @01:55PM)
Re:Slashdot deal with Microsoft? (Score:2)
(http://www.kickthebobo.com/erotech/index.html | Last Journal: Friday October 26, @11:51AM)
Re:World is round indeed! (Score:2, Interesting)
(http://kim.biyn.com/)
wow. This is in no way similar to the C=64 - it appears to have been superior in every way. I wish we had those here in the US in the '80s. I never heard of it until now. I thought I had it good with a C=128.
Been working at Microsoft long? (Score:1)