Baldy’s Paradox

It’s time to find a new home for the more than 2 billion pictures stored on Yahoo Photos.

Even though the Internet company just refurbished Yahoo Photos with a glitzy new interface, it’s shutting down the site beginning September 20.

The move shouldn’t come as a surprise, given Yahoo’s 2005 acquisition of photo-sharing powerhouse Flickr. But it does mean that millions of members will have to take action in the coming months if they want to preserve the pictures stored at the site–and that means things could get complicated.

Yahoo just fired up tools to let customers move their photos elsewhere, and CNET News.com has compiled some questions and answers to help users of Yahoo Photos understand the situation and make the right choices.

All I have to say is, “Yahoo had better come up with a way for me to download all my photos at once!” I’m really not keen on getting 300 pictures, one at a time!!

Complete Article:ZDNet

~LC

Going head-to-head with Microsoft Office 2007, the latest version of OpenOffice.org touts across-the-board improvements in the software’s word processing, spreadsheet, database, and presentation applications. However, the brightest aspects of OpenOffice.org 2.2, which shipped at the end of March, are its price tag (free) and its impressively broad platform support

OpenOffice.org runs on: Windows, Linux x86 and PowerPC, Solaris x86 and SPARC, Mac OS X and FreeBSD.

Version 2.2 of the OpenOffice.org project’s namesake suite 2.2 has not undergone the same sort of radical user interface overhaul that Microsoft Office 2007 recently underwent, which is both a bad and a good thing. On the bright side, long-time Office users will find this latest OpenOffice.org revision more familiar than Office 2007, but OpenOffice.org could stand to benefit from a dose of the “discoverability” enhancement that marks Microsoft’s new-look release.

During eWEEK Labs’ tests, we noted the improvements in OpenOffice.org’s popular PDF export function, as well as the progress the suite’s Calc spreadsheet application has undergone toward better matching the functionality of Microsoft Excel’s prized pivot table feature.

IT managers looking for alternatives to Microsoft Office—particularly those unwilling to make the leap to Office 2007—will find OpenOffice.org 2.2 well worth evaluating because, as the suite offers a good solution for cutting software costs while expanding platform options and minimizing compatibility issues.

To read the rest of Tiffany Maleshefski’s eWEEK.com article, go here

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Source: Desktop Linux

~LC

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Patrick Volkerding has announced the first release candidate of Slackware Linux 12.0: “It’s that time again, and here we have Slackware 12.0 release candidate 1! If we’re lucky, we got it all right the first time. Big thanks to the crew.”

This message has been posted on the distribution’s current changelog, together with a large number of package updates.

The upcoming Slackware Linux 12.0 is a major new version; this is the first time a Slackware release will default to a 2.6 kernel (version 2.6.21.5), now compiled with GCC 4 (version 4.1.2). Many other packages also come in their latest versions: the modular X.Org 7.2 with Xgl and Compiz support, KDE 3.5.7, Xfce 4.4.1 and, at long last, Apache 2.2 with PHP 5.

As usual, there is no ISO image available for download, but interested beta testers should keep an eye on this FTP server which periodically publishes unofficial ISO images built from the current tree; alternatively, you can build your own DVD image by following these instructions. Happy testing!

Source: DistroWatch

~LC

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