Simon Phipps's Blog: January 2004 Archive

Patrick Luby let me know that he's released v0.8 of NeoOffice/J, the Java-front-ended version of OpenOffice.org for Mac OS X. And that he's added Clipboard support! WoooHoo! Way to go Patrick! It's getting sooo close.

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JDS & LookingGlass Webcast Coming

Posted by webmink on January 29, 2004 at 07:23 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

I hear from my friend Neal that the webcast next Tuesday showing Java Desktop System should be good. Apparently Jonathan Schwartz and Peder Ulander will be showing several demos of JDS in action and also demoing the Looking Glass 3D desktop prototype (which Hideya continues to enhance - he's added a panning virtual desktop now as well and is exploring using the reverse of windows to display dialogs).

There's also a Q&A panel live - hope there will be some tough questions for them, I know they are on-the-hook to answer everything that gets asked ;-) I also notice that everyone who (virtually) shows up gets a JDS eval and a copy of StarOffice 7. Amazing how functional these 'virtual seminars' are getting.

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Big speed step in NeoOffice/J 0.7.1

Posted by webmink on January 04, 2004 at 12:02 PM | Permalink | Comments (6)

My friend Max has a new 17" Powerbook so we spent the afternoon gathering the extra software he wanted to get up to fully productive speed. Among the downloads was NeoOffice/J v0.7.1, Patrick Luby's latest release of his Java-front-ended OpenOffice.org. The new version loads and runs way faster than the previous one and I'd really recommend it to Mac users as its compatibility with MS Office is way better than AppleWorks.

One particularly interesting aspect is that Patrick has been able to significantly improve Java2D drawing performance (200% to 300% in some cases) so that NeoOffice/J is nearly as fast as its X11-based OpenOffice.org 1.0.3 counterpart. NeoOffice/J is all-round excellent - great functionality in a responsive package, and a great demonstration of both the power of the Java environment and the quality of the Java implementation on Mac OS X.

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