TECH TOOLS
Aug 25, 2008This month we look at Seagate hard drive announcements; Mandriva's Gdium netbook; new Red Hat solutions; JasperForge v2; AMD Linux drivers; and Gnome Linux on Garmin's Nuvi 880, 860, and 5000 navigation devices.
more »Workspace: Digital Signatures Digital signatures for documents and email
Jul 15, 2008We'll show you the free and easy way to set up digital signatures for office documents and email.
more »Open Office 3: Beta with more Extensions
Jul 14, 2008The Open Office project has just released version 3 of the free office package.
more »Web-based Office Tools Online office suites
Jul 11, 2008A mobile office without a laptop? No problem – a new generation of web applications converts your browser into a word processor or spreadsheet.
more »Office Suites A tour of OpenOffice alternatives
Jul 11, 2008If OpenOffice is too fat and feature-rich for your taste, try one of the office alternatives. We found much to like and much to wish for when we put six office suites to the test.
more »ODF Compatibility Open Document Format in practice
Jul 11, 2008What happens when you feed an ODT document created with OpenOffice to a word processor like AbiWord, KWord, or Writely? Read on to find out.
more »ODF Add-in The Open Document Add-in for Microsoft Office
Jul 11, 2008With a little help from the ODF plugin, Microsoft Office can open up documents saved in the free Open Document format. A short test reveals just how well it works.
more »Graphviz Graph visualization with Graphviz
Jul 10, 2008Using drawing tools to manually create graphs and diagrams can be a slow and convoluted process. The Graphviz toolbox offers a faster way. Based on a short text with the information for the graph, Graphviz quickly generates a neat drawing.
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Plasma Bigscreen Returns
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Wayland 1.24 Released with Fixes and New Features
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Fedora Continues 32-Bit Support
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Linux Kernel 6.17 Drops bcachefs
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ONLYOFFICE v9 Embraces AI
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