How to open .docx files using previous Word versions

Are you tired of people sending you .docx files? You can’t afford to buy latest Microsoft Word or Microsoft Office? Fear not, if you’ve got an older Office/Word (at least Office/Word 2000), you can install the following free software upgrade to let handle .docx files: Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack Sweet, isn’t it?

April 5, 2008 · 1 min · Alessio Placitelli

Roundcube: allow users to change their own passwords

If you are running a mail server, I’m pretty sure you’ve invested some time in testing Squirrelmail or Horde in order to provide your users a web access to their emails. Both of them are rock solid, but the lack of a good looking out-of-the-box UI is starting to weight more and more in our web x.0 days. Roundcube is an alternative, not as mature as the aforementioned, open source software released under GPL license which comes with an awesome default skin....

March 16, 2008 · 3 min · Alessio Placitelli

Internet TV (even p2p!) streaming to Dreambox

I’ve been flooded by your requests since my “Streaming live camera feed to Dreambox”) article and now, finally, the time has come: you don’t have to wait anymore 🙂 For those who don’t know what I’m talking about… it’s how to watch your favorite p2p internet channel on your dear Dreambox! Yeah, you can now sit on your sofa watching porn movies from the Internet on your 52” plasma 😀...

January 26, 2008 · 2 min · Alessio Placitelli

Change Paypal language in Buy Me a Beer plugin

There are so many great plugins for WordPress and Buy Me a Beer is one of them. It enables your blog users to donate you money through Paypal encouraging them with specific phrasing. One of the problems of the current Buy Me a Beer release, is that it doesn’t allow to choose the language of the Paypal donation page. To overcome this issue, here’s the trick: in buy-me-beer.php, look for $paypal_link and $paypal_contentlink variables....

January 26, 2008 · 1 min · Alessio Placitelli

Vista’s drunk? That’s Alcohol’s fault!

I knew it, Vista is just like a child: it shouldn’t be drinking old Alcohol (are you laughing?). Ok, let’s stop it. A dear friend of mine had a strange problem on her Vista PC just after an old version of Alcohol 120% was installed. Vista simply refused to boot, even in safe mode. After a gathering some information on the net, I found out (from Alcohol Software Support forum) that she needed to boot the system with Vista rescue disk and to delete an Alcohol driver....

January 14, 2008 · 1 min · Alessio Placitelli