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All about StarOffice and OpenOffice.org

Author: StarOffice (SO) and OpenOffice.org (OOo) are the leading rivals of Microsoft Office. Despite the difference in names, the two are mostly variations on...

WengoPhone 2.1 gives Linux users a solid softphone

Author: Nathan Willis The OpenWengo project recently released version 2.1 of its WengoPhone VoIP softphone. It's a big step forward for Linux users.Wengo -- the...

Nixstaller and the inconvenience of do-it-yourself

Author: Bruce Byfield Nixstaller 0.2.2 is a command-line tool for creating graphical installers for archived files on Unix-like systems. If that sounds paradoxical, it is....

Five scripts that make life easier with Vim

Author: Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier The Vim editor allows you to modify its behavior via scripts, and the Vim community has produced hundreds of scripts that...

Desktop publishing with OpenOffice.org

Author: Bruce Byfield "Do you offer a program like Microsoft Publisher?" Some version of this question appears regularly on the OpenOffice.org mailing lists. Many people...

Kamloops school district gets an education in free software

Author: Bruce Byfield The Kamloops/Thompson School District in British Columbia, Canada, is a free software success story. Gregg Ferrie, manager of information technology for the...

Supply the big picture with Google Map Image Cutter

Author: Nathan Willis Google Map Image Cutter (GMIC) is a free software program that automatically slices up images, arranges them in tiles, and puts them...

Keyboard-driven environments open a new window on the desktop

Author: Bruce Byfield If you use a traditional desktop like GNOME or KDE, a keyboard-controlled desktop with a minimum of utilities may seem like stepping...

Five days with the Classmate PC and Mandriva

Author: Tina Gasperson Some say the Classmate PC is Intel's answer to (or competition with) the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) effort. Intel is hawking...

Setting up TinyMCE

Author: Bruce Byfield Moxiecode's LGPL-licensed TinyMCE (Tiny Moxiecode Editor) is a JavaScript program that lets users enter formatted text in HTML forms without having to...