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Docvert – Web Service software that converts MS Word files to OpenDocument (odf)

Like the title said, Docvert is a webservice software designed to convert Microsoft Word document files (*.doc) to OASIS OpenDocument format (*.odt). It uses a simple REST-style interface, and it’s released under the LGPL.

OpenDocument requires PHP 5.0 with ZLIB, XSL and GD extension with OpenOffice 2.0 or Abiword with OpenDocument export plugin. You might also need libwmf0.2-7+ and librsvg2-2+, to convert WMF and SVG files.

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Finally, Docvert is easy to integrate into other project as it use a simple REST-style interface. This means that you can host Docvert webservice software and provide a service to convert Microsoft Word documents file to OpenDocument whether for free or otherwise.

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Linux App Finder – Helps you find GNU/Linux apps for you

Have you been in this situation where you need to do something under GNU/Linux like ripping audio cd but don’t know the name of applications to use?

Then Linux App Finder might have the answer for you! The website lists Linux applications sorted in category according to its functionality. The list is frequently updated with new applications and new version information.

The Motivation

The author of the website started this project because he had problem of finding good programs to accomplish some of the same tasks he was already doing before he switched from Windows to Linux. So, he created Linux App Finder to help others to find suitable Linux applications to accomplish day-to-day task.

Helping the website

Linux App Finder is a nice project that can help people to find free and open source applications to accomplish tasks in free operating system. If you know of a good program that is not in Linux App Finder database, then you can send them the name and website of the program to be included in the website.

That’s all for now folks…

Visit : Linux App Finder

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Sugar Rationing in Kedah

I just realise today that sugar rationing has taken effect in Alor Star when today I was only allowed to buy a maximum of one kilogram of sugar from my local shop. This is due to the lack of sugar supply in Kedah/Perlis area.

Hope the situation will be resolved by the time my sugar stock rans out.

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Burn DVD video using any video files (avi, mpg, etc) under Linux

Last week, I was thinking of burning my collections of avi (xvid encoded) files into DVD, but the problem is I don’t know how to do it under GNU/Linux and what kind of tools that I need (if any exists).

Fortunately, I found a nice well written article about converting video files to DVD format using open source tool at Linux.com. The task is accomplished by using Mplayer, mencoder and dvdauthor, which is common in various GNU/Linux distributions.

Enjoy the article ! – Convert any video file to DVD
with open source tools

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Cheap Domain name @ 2.99 and hard disk failure

Some of my files on my other hosting company has suffered hardware failures and they lost my accounts, well a couple of my “one-off” website are totally gone, along with some of the files that i mirrored there. Luckily I’ve transfered most of my files/work and this blog to Interunix, back a couple of week a go.

It seems that I’m not the only one who has suffered from hard disk failure, hope that you will recover soon Liew.

By the way, you can get cheap domain name @ USD2.99 from unixdomains.com, grab it quick while stock last :p, I’ve bought a couple of domain names at that price too…

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OpenDocument is now ISO approved!

This may be already a stale news, but I’ll post it anyway. OpenDocument recently was approved as international standard (ISO/IEC 26300), hooray. For you information, OpenDocument is an open document file format for saving and exchanging editable office documents such as text documents (including memos, reports, and books), spreadsheets, databases, charts, and presentations.

The OpenDocument format is intended to provide an open alternative to proprietary document formats including the popular but undocumented DOC, XLS, and PPT formats used by Microsoft Office, as well as Microsoft Office Open XML format.

In a nutshell, everybody is free to implement OpenDocument (ODF) support, and users will not be locked out by a single vendor as in case with proprietary office format like Microsoft Office and Lotus SmartSuite.

Currently the most popular applications that support OpenDocument is < a href="http://openoffice.org">OpenOffice (supported on a number of operating systems), Abiword and KOffice.

Visit OpenOffice Wikipedia entry for more information about OpenDocument Format