Friday, September 05, 2008

Turn off Google Chrome auto-suggest

Here is why and how. I think Google knows enough about me so I'd rather not send even more info to them through the "Omnibox" (or "address bar" for the old school folks) Of course, no one force you to use it instead of Firefox but you are not in if you haven't tried it. I just hope there's a more obvious way to turn off auto-suggest. I thought it would be under "Option" but I had to Google a bit and finally found the above link.

How to read .docx?

The short answer is to ignore them so that nobody will use it anymore. The way this format (OOXML) became an ISO standard was not without controversy.

The long answer is to install a converter. (Microsoft provided one but I haven't tried) After you install this converter on Windows, simply double-click the .docx file on your computer and the converter will automatically convert it to OpenOffice.org's format (.odt) and open it in OpenOffice.org Writer.