February 20, 2012
LibreOffice, an off-shoot of OpenOffice founded by former contributors to the OpenOffice project in 2010, has just been updated to 3.5. Several new features are part of the update including a new grammar checking tool which is included in Writer. The goal of the new utility is to check sentences for grammatical errors more accurately. [...]
January 27, 2011
There’s a couple of decent, free office suites available these days. As well as the usual applications, cloud-based services like Google Docs make accessing your work from anywhere a doddle ““ but you’ll need a reliable Internet connection to do any work. It is for this reason that it’s always advisable to have a set [...]
December 30, 2010
Many people install Linux on their machines for its simplicity, believe it or not. Distributions like Ubuntu and Mint target the curious inexperienced user and provide a complete suite of free software to tackle most PC-related tasks. If you’re regularly tapping away on a word processor, balancing the books with a spreadsheet or knocking your [...]
December 15, 2010
After perusing our must-have Windows apps page, a plucky MakeUseOf reader emailed us suggesting that we put together a list for both Windows and Linux users. When I originally switched from Windows to Ubuntu I was very interested in these cross-platform apps. After more than 10 years loyalty to Bill’s operating system, I had built [...]
July 15, 2010
As I pointed out in an earlier post about Microsoft’s new Office Web Apps, there is an undeniable push towards storing document data online (in the cloud). This puts traditional Office suites in a bit of a sticky situation. They do retain a superior interface for editing documents, but they lack a built-in way to [...]
June 7, 2010
It’s time once again for our featured Movers and Shakers post. Each week, we take one software category and list the top ten most downloaded free apps. This week we are looking at a CNet category entitled Business Software. These are applications that you can use to assist your day to day work. It doesn’t [...]
May 18, 2010
Did you know that Word documents can hold information that is not visible from within the document? It is true. Microsoft tags hidden data to your documents that can give information such as revision logs, identifying information (author, etc.), comments, keywords, hyperlinks, saved dates, edit dates, and much more. This is called metadata. Why should [...]
May 13, 2010
Open Office 3 is an incredible and diverse productivity tool set. It is an open source program that offers free tools for work processing, presentations, databases, and spreadsheets. The program can be freely downloaded on PC, Mac, and Linux machines. The best part? It can open files from any other program! Read more about Open [...]
February 21, 2010
Last week we discussed do you buy software or prefer to use a “cracked” version? We only received 729 responses which was about half the amount of responses we got on our previous poll. I will chalk the poor results up to the fact people that do pirate software are scared of getting caught. [...]
January 17, 2010
The debate begins! Well, the debate may not even matter in a few years as the Internet and computing evolves but for today it’s still here. What debate am I referring to? Which application suite is best: the desktop applications (one that is actually installed on a local machine ie. your computer) OR web-based applications [...]
