Archive for the 'Open Source' Category

OpenOffice Open Source Alternative to MS Office

I am working on a project that involves breaking down a list of 600 or so families into invitation lists for 20 or so parties.  The families are spread out around our metro area, and the idea is that we will have the parties in different places and invite families to the party that is [...]

Fix For Worpress 2.6 RSS Feeds Not Including Full Text

My posts were only being fed in summary form despite having Wordpress set to display the full text.  It turns out that you need to be using RSS version 2 in order for that feature to work correctly.  For Wordpress 2.6, the correct URL for RSS version 2 is “example.com/feed/.”  This is what you need [...]

Don’t spend money on software for one off projects

One thing about trying to make money on the Internet, it is very easy to run up huge tabs on the software that you need just to get started.  Every time I find myself in need of some software, my first step is to Google the mainstream application along with “open source.”  It is amazing, [...]