For some reason when I installed OpenOffice 3 this week in Ubuntu, it didn’t actually update the icons from 2.4.  I looked all over my icons folders, and couldn’t find them.  So I have put together an icon set of the official icons plus some Office 2007 icons for the .doc, .xls, and .ppt files.

You can download it here:  OOO3_icons.zip

It’s a Gnome icon theme, but you’ll need to do a few things to get it working how you want.  Extract the folder into your /home/you/.icons directory, and open the index.theme file with a text editor like Gedit or Nano.  Replace the names in the Inherits line with the name of the icon theme that you normally use.  That way, it will use these icons for OpenOffice, but fallback to the theme you entered on that line for the rest of the icons.

Once you’ve done that, open your Appearances control panel, hit the customize theme button, and switch your icons to the ones you just installed.

The change should take place instantly, but if it doesn’t, try logging off and back on.

If your laser mouse is a bit jumpy when you move it across the screen, try flipping it over and blowing out the little hole where the lens is.  I futzed around for 15 minutes trying to adjust the settings when I found this blog post with the solution.

The Acid3 Test tests how well your browser handles various web standards.  Or something like that.  Anyway, I ran it on the lastest version of Opera, Firefox, and Internet Explorer, and here are the results:

Opera:

Firefox:

Internet Explorer:

(No, I didn’t put the FAIL there.  The test did.)

As you can see, Opera 10 tests perfect, which is rather impressive.  Firefox comes in with the letter grade equivalent of a C-, which is disappoint performance, but acceptable.

Internet Explorer 8 comes in with an unbelievable 21%.  And that’s Microsoft’s latest and greatest.  I thought maybe it was due to security settings, so I added the test to my Trusted sites and set it to the lowest possible security settings.  It didn’t help.  Sad.

Edit:

Here’s the test result for Google’s Chrome browser: