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Using Confluence Office Connector in Mac / Firefox

zd — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:08:43 +0000

A lot of you have been using Confluence from Atlassian, which is a great tool for content collaboration. In order to get users involved in the process of collaboration, the system has to be made simple enough to use. Cumbersome software drives normal people away.

One key point is the ease of editing wiki pages. Few of us can remember all the wiki markup tags correctly. Atlassian has addressed this problem by introducing the office connector. With the help from this connector, you could use your native Office editor to edit wiki pages. To make things even better, Confluence provides Office connector support on multiple OSes, including Windows, Linux, and Mac, which talks to Microsoft Office, Open Office, and/or NeoOffice.

Sounds exciting? Yes, except the default WebDav Launcher plug-in from Confluence does not work under Firefox 3.5 (I am using 3.5.7 as of this writing). Luckily, there is a fix for it. You can download the latest Firefox add-on from here.

Another issue for Mac users. Apparently only NeoOffice is support in Mac OS X. Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 does not work. I tried to change the doc handler to Office for Mac in the WebDav Launcher, but Word always open an empty page. Could this mean WEBDAV is not directly supported in Office for Mac?

Chrome 4.0.222.5 for Mac released

zd — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:08:54 +0000

If you are on the dev channel, your Chrome will be upgraded automatically.

There are some new features as well as some bugfixes. New features include enabling “Edit Search Engine” menu item, and “default browser”.

Performance-wise, it seems this version has a smaller toll on the CPU compared to previous ones.

Gmail’s new uploader

zd — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 13:03:32 +0000

Gmail released a new feature - multiple file upload for attachments. Multi-file uploading has almost become a standard feature on most modern web platforms such as Wordpress.

Finally this highly demanded feature arrived at Gmail… And apparently Flash is behind it as well.

Don’t Upgrade to Google Chrome 2.0 if You Like to Use Space to Scroll

zd — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:58:55 +0000

Google Chrome 2.0 has been in the developer channel for a couple of days, with some interesting updates. Today I downloaded 2.0.156.1 and gave it a shot.

Everything seems to be fine, except Space bar no longer scrolls the page. Finally I found some relevant information here. Apparently they are going to fix it in the next dev channel release. That will be nice…