Tag: open source
The state auctioneers association website solution
State associations should take control of their websites and use WordPress with a few third-party services to serve the public and the membership.
Document Foundation offers free alternative to OpenOffice.org with LibreOffice
The OpenOffice.org development community breaks from Oracle, creates the Document Foundation and releases LibreOffice.
Reclaim screen real estate with Firefox tweaks
Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser that is popular for its security, third-party add-ons called extensions, and it’s speed relative to the current dominant browser Internet Explorer. Today we embark on a three-part series about making Mozilla Firefox usable. Our biggest beef with web browsers today is the amount of space used by the…
Auction Podcast Episode 11 – Open source auctioneer
One of the reasons AuctioneerTech exists is to make life easier for everyone, including auctioneers. One of the ways this goal is accomplished is by reviewing software that performs a novel or important function. Most of the software covered is open source, and in this episode, we’re going to discuss open source software, explain why…
OpenOffice 3 RC1 released
UPDATE: The development community behind OpenOffice.org has created LibreOffice, which I now recommend instead of OpenOffice. Grab the latest version from libreoffice.org. Friday saw the release of the first release candidate of OpenOffice version 3, the free and open source alternative to Microsoft Office. The last thing an auctioneer needs when starting out or outfitting…