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Go-OO: Stick a fork in it

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Since before the dawn of time, open source projects have forked more often than Lindsay Lohan cheked into rehab. The Mozilla browser is a great example of a successful fork, it was once based on Netscape, but evolved on its own and eventually rendered classic Netscape obsolete. Many -- if not most -- forks disappear into obscurity. We aren't so sure this one will go so quietly.

Go-OO is a fork of OpenOffice that has quite a few impressive features which really ought to be in official OO, but for some reason or another aren't, such as support for OpenXML, better Microsoft Binary support, and Word Perfect Graphics support. It also boasts significantly better start times -- at least on our poorly equipped test machine.

Long story short, this is a fast, lean beast of an office suite with great compatibilty with Microsoft Office. The price is right at $0.00, but as with any community project you are both welcome and encouraged to donate to the developers for their efforts.

Filed under: Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity, Web services, Freeware

Tada List, the GTD addict's to-do list

Tada List by 37signalsI don't know about you, but I'm constantly walking around with too many things in my head. "Do this", "Read this book", "Buy flowers for wife", "start project Y" and so forth. It was really weighing me down, until I read a fantastic book that all the geek kids are talking about, "Getting Things Done" by David Allen. Allen's ideas for productivity are fantastic, but they all involved getting all of those little "open loops" of things to do out of your head and into some list system that you stick to.

The book is agnostic about what format your lists should live in, but I'm not. I'm a geek, and I spend all my time either in front of, or very near to, a computer. So what did I find to catch all my open loops? Tada Lists. Tada Lists is a clean, simple and very functional AJAX based to do list manager. It meshes well with the GTD system, or it can fit any other multi list system you follow.

Tada list is free, but the developers (those smart kids at 37signals) encourage users of Tada Lists to check out their for-pay web applications, Backpack and Basecamp.

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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do. Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game. The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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