About MatthewA
Matthew is a freelancer who has produced a variety of software articles for sites such as Bright Hub and Captured Snapshot. He has an A - Level in ICT, at grade C, and is proficient with a number of software packages. Matthew also has a golf blog http://amateurgolfer.blogspot.com/.
Check out his book at http://battlesofthepacificwar.blogspot.co.uk/. Battles of the Pacific War 1941 -1945 recalls where, when and how the Pacific War was won and lost within the battlefields of the Pacific.
LibreOffice, a freeware office suite, isn’t the most obvious software to play audio and video with. However, the office suite does include options to play both video and audio in documents. The update version 4.4. also suppo...
This post told you about the Firebug add-on for Firefox that includes a variety of developer tools. Web Developer is another great add-on for website developers. That’s an extension which adds a web development toolbar to Fi...
If you need to save documents in multiple file formats, check out MultiSave. That’s an extension you can add to OpenOffice to save documents in multiple file formats with. With it you can save a document as a OpenOffice, Mic...
OpenOffice has a Find tool with which you can search for text in documents with. However, you can add a better tool to the office suite. Alternative dialog Find & Replace is a Writer extension that substantially beefs up the F...
Tabs are something you can find in most browsers, but most office suites don’t include them. However, tabs would be a great addition to office software. You can add tabs to OpenOffice with the Tabbed Windows Extension. To ad...
You can translate text from the Google Translate website. Opera users can quickly translate text in Google Translate with the Omnibox Google Translate extension. With that you can translate text directly from Opera’s address...
A kaleidoscope is a cylinder that generates colorful patterns. You can add kaleidoscope patterns to your OpenOffice Draw documents with the Kaleidoscope extension. That extension draws patterns with selected objects that are compa...
Do you have a OpenOffice document that needs translating? If so, you can translate it with the Writer’s Tools extension. That’s an extension which includes a multitude of extra options, among which is a Google Translat...
OpenOffice Calc includes numerous data validity options. With those you can add lists of values to cells. When you click on the cell, you can then select a value from a drop-down list. To add a list of values to a cell in Calc, se...
An index is a great addition to documents. Indexes provide a reference to specific keywords within a document. You can add indexes to OpenOffice Writer documents with the Indexes and Tables option. First, add entries in your docum...
OpenOffice is a freeware office suite that includes presentation, word processor, spreadsheet and database applications. With OpenOffice templates you can quickly set up a variety of documents, but only a small number are included...
Outline indicators are handy for Calc spreadsheets with lots of data in them. An outline indicator is a tool with which you can collapse or expand rows of data. So with outline indicators you can temporarily remove rows from sprea...
Other posts have told you how to add shortcuts to the My Computer (Computer) icon’s context menu by editing registry. You can also add shortcuts to the Computer icon on the Windows Vista/7 desktops with WinBubble. That’...
Photographers can take photos in a variety of ways. It’s handy to find out exactly how you took some of your fave photos. Then you can take further photos with exactly the same settings as the other photographs. This is how ...
OpenOffice is a flexible office suite. You can add extra options to the suite with extensions. Among those extensions is Text Effects, which adds a few extra text effect options to Writer. First, head over to the extension’s...