OpenOffice is a flexible freeware software package. As such, there are a few ways that you can customize the software suite’s toolbars. You can add new options to the toolbars, new toolbars and select alternative icons for t...
Most Linux software are extremely easy to customize, so it should be no surprise that the same thing can be said for Grub. In a previous article, I discussed about bootloaders and named three that I would recommend. By far, my per...
It’s about time we have the ‘talk’. The talk about Boot Loaders or as some call them Boot Managers. It is a very uncommon question and it has stumbled many of even the most savvy users. Truthfully, many people ar...
Easter eggs aren’t just sumptuous chocolate. They are also added to software packages as secret responses that occur after entering an undocumented set of commands. The OpenOffice Calc software package has a few Easter eggs....
You don’t have to print a whole OpenOffice spreadsheet if you require just a small section of it. One way that you could print a small section from a spreadsheet would be to copy and paste a group of selected cells into anot...
VLC Media Player is a freeware software package, for the Windows, Unix, Mac OS X and Linux platforms, which plays video/audio files. This is the VLC Media Player website from where you can add it to your software library. Like man...
This article is part of an ongoing series that hopes to bring a working knowledge of Linux to users of Windows. In the first article, we introduced Linux on a basic level. In the second article, we answered some commonly asked que...
Just get a Nexus device and use Linux or Mac? Want to root it but upset that most root tools are just made for Windows? Not to worry! Thanks to a developer from XDA-Developers.com, rooting any Google Nexus device on Linux and Mac ...
It may be true that Windows has a built-in clipboard that can temporarily store your copied content. However, it can only store one item at a time. This can be quite frustrating especially if you’re constantly working on tasks tha...
Dual booting MacOS and Windows is super easy with BootCamp, but what about Linux? The answer is disappointing, with BootCamp you are not able to install Linux. Today I want to help you get a Linux distro running on your Mac. In th...
Watermarks are faded background text or images that display behind the text in a document. Unlike MS Word OpenOffice’s word processor doesn’t have a specific watermark option. However, with the software’s page fo...
We already heard about how Internet Explorer is experiencing some issues these days; attackers are said to be exploiting a zero-vulnerability. There’s also another campaign that seems to be targeting the Flash media player by Adob...
There are a variety of file formats for videos, and you can convert video file formats from one to another if required. You could do that with Microsoft packages such as Windows DVD Maker and Movie Maker, or alternative third-part...
If you have opened a large OpenOffice spreadsheet document, it might be handy to keep some of its rows and columns stationary. OpenOffice Calc has an option with which you can freeze selected columns and rows so that they always r...
Whenever you add graphics to OpenOffice documents, you can also place a text caption below it which provides brief further details on what’s in the image. For example, if you add an application package screen shot to a docum...
