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Brian Leroux and Brock Whitten will be in San Jose this Sunday March 1st at the 360|iDev. They’ll be giving a full day seminar on PhoneGap starting with the basics in the morning and helping you build your own iPhone Apps and working on the framework in the afternoon.

What you will learn:

* How to get started building PhoneGap applications
* An overview of Objective-C, Javascript API and XUI framework
* How to overcome barriers to cross-device development
* How to build applications for web-enabled devices with open standards
* How to test and deploy an application to a mobile device
* How to quickly and easily convert web applications to a native mobile app
* Differences in capabilities across devices
* How to retrofit existing web applications to utilize phone features

For more info on 360|iDev or to register go here.

Open .docx Files Without Word 2007 or Convert Them to .doc Online - Digital Inspiration

Changing the extension from from .doc to .docx seems sooooo annoying and stupid! Hope this helps some folks. The article linked above has solutions for Mac and PC.

This is almost as ridiculous as Buzzword not being able to save to PDF!

[UPDATE] The link for Mac users in that blog doesn’t work, this the correct link for the Mac converter Careful there’s a beta 0.2 out that expired Dec 31 2007, you want beta 0.2.1 which expires Dec 31 2008.