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SupSuper
21 Aug 2006, 01:59
http://www.writely.com/
Sounds very interesting. No more "OMG I DON'T HAVE WORD" issues, finally being able to make PDFs for free, and colaborative documents is an original concept.
Sadly it's only IE/Firefox compatible at this stage.

CyberShadow
21 Aug 2006, 02:31
http://www.writely.com/
Sounds very interesting. No more "OMG I DON'T HAVE WORD" issues, finally being able to make PDFs for free, and colaborative documents is an original concept.
Sadly it's only IE/Firefox compatible at this stage.
Yay! Google scores another one. Needs Opera support.
BTW, what happened to Microsoft's Office Live?
Edit: it messed up the whitespace in my lame course paper (http://www.writely.com/View.aspx?docid=dd5cn46v_1cb2cj9). Also didn't want to save (threw back errors) until I previewed it, when it saved instantly. Needs work :P

SupSuper
21 Aug 2006, 02:51
Well dear sir, that's why they call it a "beta". Go report it (http://groups.google.com/group/Writely-Discussion-Group) and they're more likely to fix it.

CyberShadow
21 Aug 2006, 03:17
Hey I'm not complaining. I uploaded a random document just to check how it would deal with it, and was prepared for the worst - and generally I wrote my post in a positive tone :D Still, that's the best online browser-based word processor I've seen so far.

Lex
21 Aug 2006, 05:47
Lol, Google's freaking NASTILY awesome.

Pigbuster
21 Aug 2006, 06:41
They ARE trying to take over microsoft office, aren't they?
More power to them. I assume that I'll eventually be able to try this thing.
The name kinda sounds like a character from Paper Mario.

Vader
21 Aug 2006, 07:06
How else would they record what documents you read?
Google are the new big brother (and I don't mean the **** Channel 4 programme).

thomasp
21 Aug 2006, 08:55
finally being able to make PDFs for free
I've been doing that for absolutely ages.
Ahhh, the wonders of Mac OSX.
And as Writely isn't Safari-compatible, I guess I won't be using it...

MrBunsy
21 Aug 2006, 09:40
Sounds very interesting. No more "OMG I DON'T HAVE WORD" issues, finally being able to make PDFs for free, and colaborative documents is an original concept.
Pffft, Open Office!
However, I've heard about writely before and it certainly is going to cause a stir! There's less and less cause to buy Microsoft Office now.
It doesn't support Page Plus files though :(

Star Worms
21 Aug 2006, 10:39
Good old Google:)

AndrewTaylor
21 Aug 2006, 12:00
Sounds very interesting. No more "OMG I DON'T HAVE WORD" issues, finally being able to make PDFs for free
OpenOffice.Org has offered that for ages anyway, but well done to Google. I may even have a proper use for this.

Xinos
21 Aug 2006, 12:28
I for one think openOffice is crap.

Lex
21 Aug 2006, 13:17
Have you even tried it?

Xinos
21 Aug 2006, 13:30
Yes. Next question please.

AndrewTaylor
21 Aug 2006, 13:35
I for one think openOffice is crap.
Really? I think it's great.
It's nothing like as powerful or pervasive as Microsoft Office, but considering the price difference, the extra security, and the free in-built PDF making, I don't see much motivation to buy Office instead unless you really do need the extra features.

Xinos
21 Aug 2006, 14:49
If extra features include a working spellchecker for any other language than english then yes, it's worth it.
I might aswell use WordPad, no?
Edit: I don't want to make PDF files =/

bonz
21 Aug 2006, 14:54
If extra features include a working spellchecker for any other language than english then yes, it's worth it.
Orthography and grammar checkers are the first things I turn off immediately after installing. :p

SupSuper
21 Aug 2006, 15:52
OpenOffice.Org has offered that for ages anywayWell one thing is a huge free office suite, another is an online wordprocessor that you just have to sign up and go.

MrBunsy
21 Aug 2006, 19:00
Equally it could be said you only have to bung a knoppix disc in a computer and reboot, but this is far more accessable to most people.

Xinos
21 Aug 2006, 20:40
Rebooting is avoided as much as possible. It's not like you devote your whole computer to one task at the time. If I reboot for knoppix then i have to dismiss everthing else I was doing, so it's far from as smooth. Then we have the issue of public computers, thoose are often un-rebootable or no access to cd drive.

MrBunsy
21 Aug 2006, 21:09
Well, I have a tendancy to do that and mine normally turns on and off like a yoyo as I remember something else I wanted to do on it. But I wasn't really being serious about using knoppix when you want a word processor, I just like it for the novelty and it is quite useful every so often.

Xinos
21 Aug 2006, 21:44
Sure. Live linux cd's are awesome. I have ubunthu, slackware and hikarunix (http://www.hikarunix.org/) laying around. Alwase great for when windows is acting up and is unusable. Or when you want to hack school computers.. =)

MrBunsy
21 Aug 2006, 21:45
Or when you want to hack school computers.. =)Nah, that's even easier. Just type 'Administrator' and hit enter. :rolleyes:
never heard of Hikarunix before, looks intriguing

AndrewTaylor
22 Aug 2006, 11:20
Nah, that's even easier. Just type 'Administrator' and hit enter. :rolleyes:
At our school we could go into Network Neighbourhood and call up a full password list -- or just browse to everyone's personal files.

Xinos
22 Aug 2006, 11:29
Our school had some flaws. For instance, they lock down the harddrives so no students have access to the computer they are on, just their network folder. But everbody had acess to the program Cygwin from a desktop shortcut :P

MadEwokHerd
22 Aug 2006, 20:29
OpenOffice is big, slow, and has a non-native look and feel.
I prefer AbiWord/MS PowerPoint Viewer.

AndrewTaylor
22 Aug 2006, 22:56
Our school had some flaws. For instance, they lock down the harddrives so no students have access to the computer they are on, just their network folder. But everbody had acess to the program Cygwin from a desktop shortcut :P
Our school had a Windows defence programme called "Cerberus" designed to stop us doing anything much. Though several of us knew the password. And I knew that you could replace the exe file with Notepad and that would run instead. Notepad was much less restrictive.

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