Category: News

Google Base was launched today. And when I say “launched” I, of course, mean that it is still in beta as per Google’s policy of releasing stuff that is not completely finished yet works well enough to use.

So much has already been written about Google Base that I will only say that this is a service, which lets you store items, so you can search in them later on. Basically, it’s a free database to store your public data (information and images). For example, a private person can use it to advertise the car he/she is selling, or a recipe for fruit cake.

The reason I’m posting about it is because I want to see how long it will take for someone to develop a Google Base plugin for WordPress (the software this blog runs on) so you can post and backup in Google Base.

On a side note, check out what a search for “all your base are belong to Google” brings up.

Open Office 2.0 has been released, in case you didn’t know. I installed it and played with it a little, and I must say I’m very impressed. Unfortunately, I have little use for Office-type applications, so I didn’t test it thoroughly.

Open Office 2.0 has many interesting features, like importing Microsoft Office documents and exporting documents as PDF. In general, Microsoft Office users will feel pretty comfortable using Open Office, as the menus and toolbars are organized pretty much the same.

Hebrew support is very good, although Open Office doesn’t come with a Hebrew dictionary out of the box.

And the best thing, of course, is that Open Office is free.