Archive for April 6th, 2009

Bad Teeth Can Be Fixed

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Many people in Great Britain and other parts of the world suffer from bad teeth and this can be down to a range of reasons. Bad teeth can be caused by a lack of dental care like failure to brush your teeth regularly and poor dental health care. Many people don’t go to the dentist for a whole host of reasons. Many people have a phobia of visiting the dentist, while others simply can’t afford it or think it isn’t worth the money. No matter if you simply have bad English teeth or are just lazy when it comes to brushing, there are a number of easy things you can do to improve your teeth.

Get An Electric Toothbrush

If you have neglected your bad teeth in the brushing department, then give them the best start and buy an electric toothbrush. There are many excellent electric toothbrushes on the market, that are much more effective at removing plaque than a normal brush. Oral B electric toothbrushes and Philips brushes are the elite in brushes. The Oral B electric toothbrush range is highly recommended for effective plaque removal and brushes like the Oral B Triumph come with a number of added features. These include a sensor for pressure, timers and much more to make using your Oral B electric brush much easier.

Get A Dental Plan And Head For The Dentist

When it comes to taking care of your teeth, trips to the dental practice are vital. In England, this can be difficult due to a lack of NHS dentists. However, many dental practices now have their own practice branded dental plans. These dental plans will allow you to spread your payments throughout the year and they also make it less hard to find a dentist. There are a number of practice plans available for everyone from family practice plans to dental plans for married couples and for the individual.

Crest Whitening Strips Or A Laser Whitening Kit For Yellow Teeth

If you suffer from yellow teeth that have been stained then you might want to think about whitening your teeth. Many home teeth whitening methods are available to buy and use in your own home. Teeth whitening products include whitening strips, toothpaste and laser kits. Crest white strips are a good way to fix yellow teeth as they are simple to use. You just apply the Crest white strips on to your teeth and the whitening gel on the strips whiten your teeth. Whitening toothpaste slowly whitens your teeth over time, whilst a laser whitening kit requires you to fill a tray with gel, place it on your teeth and placing a laser to the front of the tray to quickly whiten yellow teeth.

How To Open a WPS File in OpenOffice

Monday, April 6th, 2009

OpenOffice is generally quite versatile with the file types it supports – many old or proprietary formats can be opened and edited just fine. However, .wps files are an exception – even though the support for this format has been promised long ago (in 2005), the current distribution of OpenOffice still can’t recognize them. In this post I’ll discuss several ways to handle WPS files in OO.

Some custom OpenOffice distributions come with the libwps library that lets you open WPS files. In particular, the Ubuntu OO and NeoOffice can do it. With libwps the task is completely seemless, as you can open the MS Works file like any other document.

Another possibility is to use the command-line converter wps2odt. You can find this converter on SourceForge. Note that the program is distributed as source, so you’ll probably need to install CygWin if you want to compile and use it on Windows. On a related note, there’s also the wps2html converter (also command-line) that can convert the WPS document to a HTML document. However, keep in mind that the HTML version may not preserve the original layout.

Speaking of converters, there are also a few .wps to .doc you can download, not to mention the free online service Zamzar.com. OpenOffice can handle .doc files since forever, and you can save them in the native OO format later if you want. The best part about the converter(s) mentioned in the linked article is that they were created by Microsoft. While that might not sound like a good thing to an OpenOffice fan, do keep in mind that MS is the progenitor of the WPS format, so their converter is probably/hopefully the best available.

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