Full featured alternative free office suite-- LibreOffice!

LibreOffice is the free full featured alternative office suite to MS Office.  It is the result of hard work from the open source community and the direct heir to OpenOffice and was based on the same code with all the openoffice developers transitioning to LibreOffice development.  It is available for PPC Mac OSX & Intel Mac OSX, Linux and Windows and various other operating systems.

the Url: http://www.libreoffice.org/

UPDATE: 4/24/2012

Libreoffice version 3.5.2 came out a few weeks ago, it is FREE so go out and download it if you don't have an office suite or if you got an older version of Libreoffice or openoffice.

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Tip on how to use flashvideoreplacer with tenfourfox on youtube

If you plan on using flashvideoreplacer, please remember to not join the html 5 trial in youtube -- so flash is on.

If you joined to html 5 trial, flashvideoreplacer can't kick in and load.

With flash video on and the html 5 trial off, flashvideoreplacer will detect the presence of flash video and then it will load the video playback replacement (in my case-- quicktime) in youtube.

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Another suggestion for PowerPC users-- MacTubes

MacTubes is a youtube video player and downloader and it is free.

the url is: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/28608/mactubes

It allows youtube videos to playback well on a lower end machine like a PowerMac G4 400 Mhz with easy.  Just set the playback to use quicktime.  And it is smooth and can do full screen playback too!

Now even owners of lowend PowerPC Macs can enjoy their favorite youtube videos!

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Thank you to the developers of TenFourFox!

I am a PowerPC user and i own a PowerMac G4 MDD Dual 867Mhz (with 2 gb ram & radeon 9000 pro, running Mac OSX 10.5.8 Leopard,) a PowerMac G4 AGP 400 Mhz  (with 896mb & nvidia geforce4mx running Mac OSX 10.4.11 Tiger,) a PowerMac G4 Dual 450MHz (with 2 gb ram & nvidia geforce4mx running Mac OSX10.4.11 Tiger,) and a iMac special edition G3 600Mhz (with 1gb ram & rage 128ultra runnning Mac OSX 10.4.11)

My machines are "vintage" but still very usable.  The Safari web browser is no longer being updated by Apple for PowerPC Macs but TenFourFox, a variant of the FireFox web browser is, and they stay in sync with the Mozilla Firefox releases and TenFourFox has 4 versions for PowerPC processors, one for the G3, two versions for the G4, and one version for the G5 and you will need Mac OSX Tiger or Mac OS X Leopard to run it.  I have been using TenFourFox from the beginning and i love it!  My PowerMac MDD can handle flash video but my other machines can't handle it so well (unless i lower the resolution to 240p in youtube) but tenfourfox along with the flashvideoreplacer set to use quicktime as a playback method plays videos super smooth on youtube.

So if you still use a powerpc mac and you are running at least Mac OSX Tiger, download Tenfourfox and give it a try!  the url is: http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/


Plugins are off by default but you could turn them on by entering the config and changing the values of the plugins to TRUE and the plugins will then be turned on.

My PowerPC Macs will keep on rocking for the near future!

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