The internet has helped change the way we watch movies by changing the way movies are delivered to us online thanks to some awesome streaming services. While that makes for some entertaining evenings inside without going to much e...
Backing up your phone can be quite a hassle especially if it does not have a built-in data manager. Of course, there are apps that you can use to back up your contacts, call logs, messages and apps. The thing is you need to use se...
While not the easiest names to remember, Continuity & Handoff are two new features available in iOS and OS X Yosemite that you will love. The problem? Not all Macs have the Continuity & Handoff features available to use. U...
You might remember learning about the iTunes sidebar for media players years ago when you first learnt how to use iTunes. The sidebar has been a part of the media player for many years. However, in the latest iTunes 12 the sidebar...
When setting up a brand new Mac computer, users will have the choice of if they want to allow an iCloud password to password protect the computer with that login code. Sometimes when we are anxious to gain control of our new toys ...
You probably already know that apps are not just available for mobile-based devices such as smartphones and tablets, Yes, they too are available on a more subtle scale for computers. Sometimes people simply refer to them as progra...
Resetting the Mac OS X dock to the default settings the fruit company originally offered is a common task users would love to know how to do. Most people will play with their docks and customize them. However, it’s not usual...
Apple make an outstanding operating system in OS X. Apple also creates some unique names for it’s apps and services from within that OS. If you are a frequent user of Windows and not Mac, you might not know about the Launchp...
Most office suites probably don’t include options to create barcodes with. OpenOffice doesn’t have any built-in barcode options, but you can add the Barcode plug-in to it. Then you can quickly set up a barcode with the...
It might be handy to have a calculator at hand when setting up documents with OpenOffice applications that aren’t spreadsheets. Sure, you can always open Calculator in Windows, but that doesn’t include a matrix operato...
Bookmarks are something you can add to OpenOffice documents. You can add bookmarks as a shortcut that when selected jump to a specific point in the document. In addition, you can also add visible bookmark points to documents with ...
Sudoku is a game in which you fill out a grid so that the rows, columns and sub grids include all the digits from one – nine. Now you can add this game to OpenOffice Calc spreadsheets. The Sudoku OpenOffice plug-in adds formatted ...
Draw is one of the OpenOffice applications that you can add plug-ins to. The Diagram extension is a good addition to Draw. With that you can quickly set up organization diagrams. This is the Diagram page on the OpenOffice website....
Another post covered OpenOffice’s VLOOKUP function to look up data with. Calc also has a HLOOKUP function that is similar. However, with HLOOKUP you can look up data in tables that have horizontal layouts. For example, set u...
This post covered how to add more templates to OpenOffice. In addition, you can also set up custom templates with your own layout and design. Custom templates will include headers, footers and placeholders that you can add to docu...
