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OpenOffice 3.0

This week OpenOffice 3.0 was released and once again I found myself questioning as to why we spend good money on Microsoft Office when there is a completely free alternative available that does the job just as well. After all,it’s not as if Office 2007 is cheap;the professional version comes in at an [...]

October 24th,2008 | Tags:,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, | Category:Articles | Leave a comment

Portable GIMP

The GNU Image Manipulation Program (rather affectionately named GIMP) was first released back in 1996 by two American University students. The program was designed to be an easy to use,powerful open source image editor and since this date it has matured to achieve a large user base over several platforms including the Apple Mac,[...]

April 22nd,2006 | Tags:,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, | Category:Articles | Leave a comment

First look – Office 2007

Not a day goes by when I don’t use Office 2003 for one reason or another and this morning I became curious as to when Microsoft would release an upgrade that would make my life easier. A quick search on the Internet revealed details of Office 2007 which is currently in second Beta edition and [...]

March 11th,2006 | Tags:,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, | Category:Articles | Leave a comment

Windows Longhorn

Let’s take a moment to gaze into the future –The year is 2005 and Microsoft is releasing Windows Longhorn to the world;the operating system that will take over from Windows XP. Of course I’m not a fortune teller so I can’t predict exactly what the Operating System will [...]

October 25th,2003 | Tags:,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, | Category:Articles | Leave a comment

MSN Messenger 6

I am still quite shocked at the number of people who don’t know about the existence of MSN Messenger which is built into many versions of Windows and also is freely available from http://messenger.msn.com. This handy little tool allows you to chat with people over the Internet,offering the spontaneity [...]

September 13th,2003 | Tags:,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, | Category:Articles | Leave a comment