Open Life

GOOogle has been having a lot of relationship lately with the OpenOffice.org community. Recently the announcement of the inclusion of the OpenOffice.org projects into Google Summer of Code.

A Special page was created to hold this projects within the openoffice.org site.

On other news OpenDocument Text format are now recognized by Gmail, this is a strong initiative saying that this company is really backing up open standards.

Finally a lil tip for all you OpenOffice.org users to google search a word within OpenOffice.org.

• The next step is to have the right search engine configured. You do this by going to Tools > Options > Internet >Search. The search option will help you choose the search engine to use. So now we will be choosing the search engine we want. If you want a custom engine like Wikipedia you can choose to add it.
• Once we choose the engine and click OK we can open a document select a term and then with the text marked we can click on Search. This will open a browser and show the result of the text.