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The latest release more thoroughly cleans junk files in Firefox, Google Chrome, and localizations. It has important fixes for Ubuntu 15.10 and KDE users. The version in your distribution's repository is probably old, so .deb and .rpm packages are available on the BleachBit web site.

BleachBit 1.0 makes it easier to shred any Linux file; adds three cleaners; improves cleaners for Google Chrome and Adobe Flash; has a digitally signed installer for Windows; and more.

I received an email from Piriform, makers of CCleaner, asking me to remove a feature from BleachBit that allows individual BleachBit users to use winapp2.ini files created by the community of users. I don't see how the terms of use apply, but I am checking into it.

Google Chrome accumulates traces of the web sites you visit in more places than other web browsers, but today BleachBit 0.8.5 conveniently cleans them all---even in a place the browser itself won't clean it. You've heard of cookies, cache, and URL history, but Google Chrome also quietly stores HTML5 cookies, a DNS cache, keywords table (for site search), a "top sites" list, and a "host referral" list. Editor's note: BleachBit is GPLv3 software

Here's a review aimed at helping open source projects choose a free (like beer) hosting service—particularly for demanding, dynamic sites—covering SourceForge, Google App Engine, Launchpad, and Blogger.

In my day job many times I've left the "operating room" to inform the worried "relatives" of the "patient's" terminal state without fully internalizing the potential for me to be the next person blind-sighted by a statistical outlier in the MTBF. Now that outlier is me

Welcome to OpenOffice.org, the world-class office suite that’s also free and open source. This is your new-user orientation. Read on to discover support, tutorials, community insights, templates, clip art, extensions, and blogs.

Recently released, Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 supports OpenDocument Format version 1.1. With Microsoft's tarnished history of abusing standards for profit and obvious preference for Microsoft's own Office Open XML, what could Microsoft's ODF support possibility look like?

The same application performs differently on different platforms. Differences include compiler brand (Microsoft Visual C++ vs gcc), compiler version (gcc 3 and 4 were implicitly tested), operating system characteristics, and file systems. These OpenOffice.org 3.0 benchmarks measure vanilla OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, Go-oo, and Portable OpenOffice.org on 3.0 on Microsoft Windows XP and Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex).

Five hilarious Openoffice.org pranks to play on your coworkers or family including ILoviePonies.com, Rickroll'd, AutoIncorrect, scary splash screen, and the disappearing menu bar.

With the final release two months away and an alpha version available, it's time to look at OpenOffice.org 3.1's new features: eye candy, better charts, replying to notes in the margin, overlining, macros in Base, RTL improvements for Arabic and Hebrew, and (believe it or not) better sorting. Download and report any bugs you find.

Some say Linux's .rpm and .deb installation packages uninstall cleanly, so there is no need for any registry cleaners like CCleaner for Windows. Here are a few counterexamples to the myth and the application to remedy the situation.

There's plenty of ways to convert Microsoft Office 2007 file formats (.docx, .xlsx, .pptx) to OpenOffice.org. Now OpenOffice.org 3.0 imports these Office OpenXML files natively, but natively doesn't mean a fluent translation. You can wait for OpenOffice 3 to mature, but there's another way for the impatient.

OpenOffice.org 2.4.1 comes in a dozens of editions, and each edition has its own patches, performance improvements, features, bug fixes, and new bugs. Which edition is the fastest to start and to open a document? Ask these 3000 measurements.

OpenOffice.org takes on PDF import with this new extension (available now). Also the extension introduces innovative, dual-format PDF-ODF files combining portable presentation and editing capabilities in a single file.

Some complain OpenOffice.org is slow and bloated. With each release there may be dozens of individual performance improvements, but there are also new features, some of which may slow things down. This the natural balance in software development, but in the end, what is the net effect on performance from one version to the next? Is it realistic to expect new features and faster performance? This OpenOffice.org benchmark measures the speed of versions 1.1.5 through 3.0.

Wirth's Law states software becomes larger, more complex, and slower: in the end the win from Moore's Law end is washed out by the loss from Wirth's Law. Let's compare OpenOffice.org against these Laws to see which one wins.

OpenOffice.org 2.4 is now released and ushers in new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements.

With the final release 167 days away and an alpha version available, it's time to look at OpenOffice.org 3.0's new features: view multiple pages in Writer, notes in the margin, Microsoft Office 2007 file format support, Solver in Calc, new visual theme in Calc, native tables in Impress, more columns in Calc, error bars in charts, performance improvements, real native Aqua Mac support, and more.

The splash screen can be a useful way of providing visual feedback that OpenOffice.org is starting. However, some people don't like the splash screen, and others prefer to customize the splash screen to match the system theme.