Wooji Juice

Articles for March 2009

My OpenOffice User Experience

For compatibility reasons, I was recently asked to use OpenOffice, rather than Pages, to do some writing. And I'm not impressed.

Generally, I don't like to rag on open-source software, because hey, it's free, it's typically made by volunteers in their spare time, it's not really fair to compare it to expensive proprietary products, etc. And there are a number of open-source packages I like, and besides, elsewhere on this site you'll find source code I've made available myself.

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Kindle for iPhone

Amazon today released Kindle for iPhone, and it seems to be stirring up some interest.

A couple of notes regarding this news:

Firstly, as far as I can tell, it's currently only available in the US App Store. I previously assumed the fact that the hardware Kindle is only sold in the US is due to its cellular technology being US-centric, but now I'm beginning to think it might be contractual instead — that Amazon only have rights to distribute the eBooks in the USA. Book rights are often negotiated on a country-by-country or region-by-region basis.

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