Software you should try
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While using the computers daily, you come across various interesting software. Me too. I created this section to tell you about it. Maybe it helps.
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This tutorial shows you how to extract the uncompressed images from a Microsoft Word Document using OpenOffice.org free office suite. You can even extract embedded cliparts (like WMF files) or other vector based graphics embedded in the document, in their original format.
This tutorial is inspired by How to extract the images from a .doc […]
Written by cdriga on November 4th, 2007 with 3 comments.
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Are you presenting in conferences graphical charts and figures which continuously change and you have no time to update the slides? All you need is your OpenOffice.org Impress presentation and an active Internet connection to show your audience the live figures your team or your server assembles for you back at home. The data is […]
Written by cdriga on October 31st, 2007 with 1 comment.
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Microsoft has listed 100 reasons to upgrade to Windows Vista and to leave Windows XP behind. Thanks Microsoft for the list. While reading the list, a Linux user will mark all those reasons and a few more others as “I already have that in my Linux installation“.
…and after marking them all, he/she will add:
“I […]
Written by cdriga on October 21st, 2007 with no comments.
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Kim Brebach enumerates in an article in DesktopLinux.com 13 reasons why Linux should be on your desktop, I would add: even if you still have Windows installed.
The reasons in short:
Cost
Resources
Performance
No bloatware
Security
Dual booting
Installation
Reinstalling the OS
Keeping track of software
Updating software
More security
No need to defrag disks
A wealth of built-in utilities
The article is located here: http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT5836989728.html.
Written by cdriga on October 18th, 2007 with no comments.
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6 years ago, I was already tired of viruses, blank screens, blue screens, malware, spyware, the need to reinstall the operating system from time to time and all sorts of other Windows goodies which for a user born in the Microsoft era consume a lot of his daily time.
I decided to investigate if there are […]
Written by cdriga on October 17th, 2007 with 1 comment.
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Years ago, while publishing a magazine for my school, I tried various applications for desktop publishing and complex documents editing. At that time there was PageMaker, Publisher, and a few others. At some point I also tried QuarkXPress, all of them having ups and downs either for a newbie or for a professional to tell […]
Written by cdriga on October 12th, 2007 with 2 comments.
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