Lazycoder

NeoOffice/J

NeoOffice/J: ”

This is an X-windows-free version of OpenOffice for Mac OS X. They just released 1.1 final, the first version that hasn’t had a Beta sticker on it. In exchange, I sent them a few bucks, since I’ve been using this as my everyday office suite for over a year now. (Confession: I still do dip into Excel now and again, but eventually the OpenOffice spreadsheet will catch up with that too.) It’s not as pretty as a real native-bred OS X app, but for what I need, it pretty well Just Works. Recommended for OS X users, particularly those who like C-$2MS.

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(Via ongoing.)

Trying this out now. Sweet home Alabama, it takes long enough to start up. Maybe that’s just a “first time starting up after install” penalty.

Why do I have a “Hangul/Hanja conversion” item on my menu bar? I don’t even know what those things are. It also opens up to a document by default. What if I want to work on a spreadsheet? Hey, it does have a dock menu. The preferences menu doesn’t open up any preferences? “Tools -> Options” opens up preferences, how un-Mac of them to build that into the “Mac” version. Wow this thing is slower than Forest Gump after 5 shots of bourbon. Lets quit and restart. It’s faster starting up this time.

Verdict: I’ll have to try it on for a week and see how it fits. I really dislike “suites” of anything though. I’d rather have 10 little programs open doing exactly what I want than one big one with a bunch of stuff I don’t need or want.

update Uninstalled. This thing is tooooo slooow.