The changes are not difficult and do seem to have an effect. We can’t be certain how much this will affect the functionality but we pass these ideas on. Both changes involve going into the Tools and then options management sections. In the memory dialogue box, increase graphics cache to 64MB and memory per object to 8MB. It will take Open Office a few openings before this helps.
The other is to go to Java options and disable them. Apparently in the time it takes Open Office to open Java, you can go and make a cup off coffee, go to the loo, read the online newspaper on your thin and light and return to your desktop.
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The people at Winamp keep themselves busy lately 
A new version of Winamp was released: 5.111
* works with internet explorer 3.0 again (old win95/nt3.51)
* Auto-Preset EQ crash (non-mp3 files)
* $upper, $caps, $caps2 crash with foreign characters
* Station Info crash (with http filtering program)
* empty playlist bugs
* [in_mp3] proxy ignored when ‘only port 80’ was checked
* [in_midi] lyrics not working
>> Download Winamp 5.111 Full
FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client and server with lots of useful features and an intuitive interface. And best of all: it’s free!
New features:
* Support for servers needing an account for successful logon using ACCT command
* experimental support for BS-2000 servers
Fixed bugs:
* On servers sending nonstandard directory listings, files did not display if their filetime was between 0:00 and 0:59
>> Download FileZilla 2.2.17
OpenOffice.org 2.0 is the productivity suite that individuals, governments, and corporations around the world have been expecting for the last two years. Easy to use and fluidly interoperable with every major office suite, OpenOffice.org 2.0 realises the potential of open source. Besides a powerful new database module and advanced XML capabilities, OpenOffice.org natively supports the internationally standardised OpenDocument format, which several countries, as well as the U.S. state of Massachusetts, have established as the default for office documents. More than any other suite, OpenOffice.org 2.0 gives users around the globe the tools to be engaged and productive members of their society.
Available in 36 languages, with more on the way, and able to run natively on Windows, GNU/Linux, Sun Solaris, Mac OS X (X11) and several other platforms, OpenOffice.org banishes software segregation and isolation and dramatically levels the playing field. And, with its support for the OASIS Standard OpenDocument format, OpenOffice.org eliminates the fear of vendor lock in or format obsolescence. The OpenDocument format can be used by any office application, ensuring that documents can be viewed, edited and printed for generations to come. OpenOffice.org 2.0 is a breath of hope for small economies that can now have a local language office suite well adapted to their needs and to their economical possibilities, reducing their dependency on the interests of proprietary software vendors.
“OpenOffice.org is on a path toward being the most popular office suite the world has ever seen; providing users with safety, choice, and an opportunity to participate in one of the broadest community efforts the Internet has ever seen. As a member of that community, I’d like to offer my heartiest congratulations.” - Jonathan Schwartz - President and CEO of Sun Microsystems.
>> Download OpenOffice.org 2.0
>> http://www.openoffice.org
Updated: LAME 3.96.1 (sorry, but 3.97 will need to lose its beta tag before we upgrade)
Fixed: playlist focus issue after adding files to playlist
Fixed: crash on multichannel songs with EQ enabled
Fixed: internet connection detection not working when set to “dial-up”
Fixed: manual playlist advance with winamp videos
Fixed: EQ text display glitch
Fixed: video not filling up video window
Fixed: black bars in fullscreen video
Fixed: [gen_ml] crash with no write access
Fixed: [gen_ml] CDDB Dialog Media Library drawing glitch
Fixed: [in_dshow] seeking on files with no video or no audio
Fixed: [in_cdda] aspi ripping crash
Fixed: [ml_wire] “my music” folder creation
Fixed: [ml_wire] Podcasts with dates before 1970 handled properly
Fixed: [ml_wire] Downloading of podcasts with parameters in URL
Fixed: [out_ds] fade-on-seek settings
Fixed: [in_wm] pause glitch
Fixed: [in_mp4] view-file-info filename not scrolling
Coming Soon: Multi-user profile support (preliminary support enabled)
Lots of other small bugfixes and optimizations (core/gen_ff)
New: ‘Station Info’ Prefs page (for configuring radio browser)
New: Password protection for Shoutcast TV ratings
>> Download Winamp 5.11 Full
In the past week, four major camera makers (Canon, Fuji, Konica-Minolta and Sony) have quietly published service advisories admitting their digital cameras are dying. In each case, the flaw appears to involve Sony CCD sensors using epoxy packaging that eventually lets in moisture. Sony’s own cameras are among those affected, and the company also has dozens of affected camcorder models. Sony is believed to be picking up the tab for the repairs for the other camera makers as well, regardless of warranty status. (If true, a laudable approach.) Given the large numbers of cameras that are potentially involved, this can’t be good news for Sony, who apparently already is expecting losses, and who has also recently announced major layoffs.”
CNET News.com and The New Yorks Times report that even though the prices of printers have dropped up to 30 percent in the last few months thanks to a savage price war, buyers are going to pay at least 28 cents a print. This is if you believe the manufacturers’ math. It could be closer to 50 cents a print if you trust the testing of product reviewers at Consumer Reports. In the meantime, letting a retail photo shop print your photos, can get at € 0.20 or even € 0.15 per photo. In most cases, the more photos you want to print, the lower the price.
The LAME team has recently released version 3.97b1 of their excellent MP3 encoder. Extract the archive on your hard disk, and point your favourite mp3 conversion program (EAC, cdex, Easy CD-DA Extractor …) to it’s location.
>> Download LAME 3.97b1
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 2 is now available for download. Also known as the 1.8 Beta 5 milestone, this is the last beta release of the next major Firefox update and is aimed at testers, extension/theme authors and Web developers. The final release of Firefox 1.5, which will be widely promoted to end-users, is scheduled for later this year. This release does not contain any major new features since Beta 1. Improvements to automated update system, Web site rendering and performance, along with several security fixes are included in this release. Beta 1 users that want to help test software update, should wait for the automatic update to be triggered sometime in the next few days. The incremental update from Beta 1 to Beta 2 is 700K bytes.
>> Download Mozilla Firefox 1.5 beta 2