Open docx Files in Firefox without Office 2007

A good news for all those who do not wish to download a converter for converting .docx, .xlsx, .pptx etc. files to .doc, .xls, .ppt respectively. There's a new Firefox extension from Microsoft that will help view all .*x extension files to be displayed as normal html pages in FireFox.

Called OpenXML viewer, this plug-in (download link) lets you read docx files inside the Firefox browser just like any other HTML web page while retaining all the text formatting and layout.

There’s a command-line version of OpenXML viewer (download link) available as well for converting docx documents into HTML files that you may then open in any other web browser. Thanks to Amit Agarwal.

How To Pronounce Foreign Names Correctly

If you're in a situation where you're about to meet a foreign person and you don't know how to pronounce his/her name correctly, if you've read a name somewhere but have no clue how to say it, here is a nice tool which will help you pronounce a foreign name correctly - How To Say That Name.

This site will let you learn how to pronounce names as a native speaker would say them. For example, "Nguyen" - Confused how to pronounce it? Go to How To Say That Name and listen to a native Vietnamese speaker pronounce it. They've got a huge dtabase of people's names in various languages.

The database has pronunciations of all popular names and surnames from languages like English, German, Russian, Chinese, Korean and Hindi. If you can't find a name, kindly let them know as they're constantly adding names to their database.