For over several years now, the OpenOffice.org Project has been increasing significantly. And on October 28th they’ve reached the 100 million download with their 3.0 version. Open Office 3, released a year ago, included several improvements: Enhanced compatibility with Microsoft Office 2007 Added edition capabilities for PDF Included Open Office extensions (quite similar like you have in Firefox add-ons) Various improvements with Writer (Word), Calc (Excel) and Impress (PowerPoint). The l... Read Full Story

Netbooks are becoming more popular because they’re more portable than the very portable laptop and have all the working power into the bargain. Plus they pack more punch than even the best of smart phones. Here we have what I think are the best three netbooks for their tasks. Home Dell Inspiron Mini 10v Netbook This is a great little curvy computer running the most popular of OS among netbooks – Windows XP. It has 1GB of RAM which is into laptop territory and is great for surfing the intern... Read Full Story

Even listened to the radio on your phone while you’re on the bus or just relaxing in the park – sometime it can get a bit boring. Especially for us geeky types who love to know what going on all over the world in the tech biz. Well I found a cool app for your cell phone that may fix the problem. Virtual Radio is a cool Java app for you Java enabled cell phone that allows you to listen to Internet radio stations in crisp high quality sound. The have lowered the frequency to 32kbps for ... Read Full Story

I though I’d share with you guys an RSS reader that I started using recently called Feedly. Basically it’s and add-on for most browsers including Chrome and Firefox which combines all your RSS feeds into one incredible place that by far surpasses generic readers such as Google. Here is a screenshot: What I like most about is that it also combines other services such as GMail and Twitter into the same package so you’re getting all of your information in the one place instead of having ... Read Full Story

Music marketing these days is very tough and most artists will go to any lengths to sell you their new projects. 50 Cent is trying to drum up some support but I think this is going the wrong way about it. Everyone hates SPAMMERS! Related Articles RouteNote on Twitter, Please Follow Us! – July 27, 2009 Who Are The Top Musicians on Twitter? Here Are The Twitter Music Charts – April 23, 2009 Top 5 Twitter Applications for Bands and Musicians – January 28, 2009 RouteNote Now ... Read Full Story

It’s a great day when Internet giant Google open sources the programs it uses to build well-known favourites such as GMail, Docs and Google Maps. It announced on its blog that it will be making a lot of it’s own development software available to developers all over the world. This release comes as Google are undoubtedly upgrading their own tools especially with the upcoming launch of Google Wave. The first of the three tools they released is called Closure Compiler which helps developers tr... Read Full Story

We picked up on Blue Beat’s strange decision to start streaming otherwise unavailable tracks from the Beatles’ back catalogue without the right’s owners permission, but it turns out their infringements are much more widespread. As music business news site Hypebot has just reported, they also claim to have the rights to sell music from AC/DC and Dan The Automator right through to Frank Zappa and ZZ Top. A totally spurious claim, based on this piece of US copyright legislation... Read Full Story

The vast majority of people have a single monitor. Even suggesting adding a second would baffle them. ‘Eh, why?’ they might ask while staring at you as though you just landed in a spinning saucer. Here’s my answer. ‘Because productivity is increased, desktop size doubled and it looks AWSOME’. For those of you who follow me on Twitter you’ll have noticed that I spent an hour last night hooking up a second 19” monitor in my office. As I write this post I currently have Microsoft Outlook and Tr... Read Full Story

It’s been a while since we reiterated this: RouteNote is here to help YOU get your music online and selling. There are a lot of other players in the digital distribution market, all offering different models of payment and return, different combinations of stores, different packages and percentages, but we think we have the simplest, most efficient and cheapest service on the net. We don’t charge any upfront or subscription fees, and only charge a 10% fee out of any revenue that y... Read Full Story

Another Friday, another playlist. A few of my favourite classical pieces to waft you through the last few working hours of the week – I’m sure that these are cringingly pop to anyone who knows anything about clasical music, but I think they’re amazing. The variation of the simple theme in the Moonlight sonata has got to be one of the best things ever to come out of a human brain. http://open.spotify.com/user/d45hiel/playlist/0fCs4oABSFjHiJZ1R3exk9 Related Articles Shameless... Read Full Story