This works similar to Microsoft PowerPoint, this application is compatible with .ppt; users can save the Impress document using .ppt extensions. Besides it can be exported to PDF and to SWF for presentations using flash player. Impress has large collections of images and drawings for embedding in presentations, which is contributed by Linux. It has a simple to use drawing tool that helps to draw or edit drawing, and adding it to your presentation.

OpenOffice Base:

Base is a powerful database management application that supports single users having personal database, and multiple users that connect and work on the same database. Base is similar to Microsoft Access, it acts as a front end for database systems, and it supports ODBC and JDBC standard drivers for connecting any available database. Base Wizard helps the new users to design their database, by creating tables, queries, forms and reports. Base can be used to create, maintain and manipulate the database at ease. It can also be used as a tool, to generate reports on your computer sales, or for maintenance of inventory or for listing the number of computer accessories based on the product.    

OpenOffice Draw:

Draw is a vector graphics editor that allows creating graphics image out of the diagram; this has similar characteristics to Microsoft Publisher, the connectors between shapes in the Draw helps in creating drawings. It can serve the same purpose as a desktop publisher. You can design and draw objects at ease with connectors, further options like group, regroup and ungroup helps you to create photorealistic images. Users can import diagrams or images from different formats like BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and WMF for editing in Draw.

OpenOffice Math:

It is used for calculating mathematical equations; it assists as equation editor in writer, and in other text documents. It is treated as object, when used in text documents, it is also compatible with other OpenOffice applications like Impress and Calc. You can enter the formula in the document by inserting markup in equation editor or you can chose from the context menu, by right clicking the equation editor. It can be exported to portable document format (PDF) , directly from the Math.

Features of OpenOffice

OpenOffice allows running of old version of Microsoft office files, which cannot be opened in the newer versions of the Microsoft Office. It can run on quite a number of platforms, which is restricted in Microsoft Office, besides it provides many number of extensions, there are approximately 390 extensions available in Opeoffice.org. Users can also create their own extensions using openOffice.org.

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History of OpenOffice

Oracle corporation is in collaboration with IT Giants like Novell, RedFlag, IBM, Google and others  in development of OpenOffice. They have offered this software for free to the public, besides it is available in 110 languages. OpenOffice has released four version till now which includes OpenOffice 1.0, OpenOffice 2.0, OpenOffice 3.0 and OpenOffice 3.2, the fifth version OpenOffice 3.3 is reserved for future development.

Applications in OpenOffice.org

OpenOffice open source software has applications similar to Microsoft office, it has

• Writer –word processor
• Calc – Spread sheet
• Impress – Presentation Program
• Base – For Database management
• Draw – Vector Graphics Editor
• Math Tool-For mathematical equations

OpenOffice Writer:

All the functions and the tasks in the Writer mirrors the Microsoft Word document, it works similar to the word document and Core’s word perfect. Users can export their document to PDF without using additional software. Besides it has WYSIWYG, where the user can view the document output while creating or editing the document. Word completion functions suggest words based on the alphabet inputs, which considerably eases the typing task. Documents can be saved in number of formats like doc, docx, rtf and XHTML.

OpenOffice Calc:

Calc spreadsheet application is equivalent to Excel and Lotus 1-2-3, it has features that support financial and statistical functions, sheets and charts can be exported to PDF format with ease. The functions EASTER SUNDAY enables to input any given year. Metrics like cm, mm, and inches are used for defining the width and height of the cell or column. Interactive flow charts and diagrams can e created based on the values in the OpenOffice Calc.

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The tab browsing of Google chrome is much superior compared to other browsers, because the each tab of Chrome is in itself a separate browser. The tabs of the Chrome in the browser window act as a group of browsers rather as a group of tabs in a browser. Users can separate and combine the tabs by simply dragging out and in of the window to have a multiple browsing windows or a single window with multiple tabs. In case of accidental shutdown or closing down of windows, there is an option that helps the users to retrieve the recently closed tabs, in no time without losing data.

V8 JavaScript Engine:

Google Chrome has put the tabs on the top of the browser window to simplify it. Each tab has its own process which does not interfere with one another during browsing. They have created a unique v8 JavaScript to enable this multi tab multi processing task to run faster and safer. Besides, these tabs does not share information among themselves since they run as individual tabs, unlike other browsers. So malware from one tab cannot infiltrate into other tabs, by this way it provides more security compared to other browsers. Even if a tab crashes due to some malfunction it does not take other tabs with it, which gives incessant browsing experience. And the designer says this kind of multi threading helps in the optimal use of memory.

A Design for individual and organization:

Google chrome used AJAX and web 2.0 applications in design to make it as a front end to run web-based services and applications Gmail, Google Calendar and any other Web-based application which are widely used by organization and individuals.

Simple and explicit Downloads:

Google chrome downloads help the users in easy download and view. When you download a file from the web, you can see a small icon at the bottom to the left of the browser which is called as download bar in chrome. After download it shows the downloaded file with options like open file, open folder containing the file. The download manager and the personal downloads page are the same when you go the personal download page you can find the location of the downloaded file along with date of downloads. As a download manager it helps to pause and resume the downloads without the fear of losing data or file.

Ultimate Security:

Google has incorporated all the essential security needs in its chrome browser; it has an antiphishing tool and a pop-up blocker. The Chrome browser cautions the users when there is a phishing attack from the visiting site, with a warning screen that show “Warning: suspected phishing site” this helps users to steer away from bad sites. But it has two options that allow the users to proceed despite of safety warning or to close the tab.

Chrome does not allow any pop-up to open up without the user’s approval, a message at the bottom of the screen says about the pop-up block. If the users wish to see the pop-up he can do so by a click on the message.

Google has introduced an incognito mode. When the user close the screen in this mode all the temporary internet files, cookies, history, download details and other data related to browsing will disappear. This is similar to that of private browsing of Apple’s Safari, Mozilla Firefox 3.5, Opera 10.5, and Internet Explorer 8.

Google expands its security by running each tab through a dedicated sandbox. These sandboxes have no access to hard drive. This means the browsing is separated from the other areas of the system; this gives a total security from malware intrusion in to the hard drive.

A run into the Google Chrome Features:

1. V8, JavaScript that gives twice the speed and security compared to its counterparts.

2. Sandbox – Every tab used acts as an individual browser and it does not connect to the PC, prevents malware infection.

3. Task manager – it shows the memory used by websites, helps in closing unwanted websites to increase the speed.

4. Thumbnails of most visited websites that opens up in a push.

5. Omnibox does a double act of an address bar and a search bar.

6. Incognito mode that restricts the cookies and temporary files into the browser.

7. Simple interface that is not clogged by various bars.

8. An easy and effective download option.

9. Large content screen – a comprehensive browsing experience

10. Themes to delight and suit the users.

Limitations of Google Chrome:

In the name of simplicity they have limited the features; some important features like RSS reader, Bookmarks Manager are missing in the chrome. The chrome browser lacks in many useful extensions that are most common in other browsers.

Google Chrome is surely an enchantment for the users who desire a stable browsing experience; it may have flaws, which I hope will be addressed in the future versions of the browser. When comparing the efficiency, design, speed, security, innovation and the simplicity, it is pretty much clear that Google is going to absolutely transfigure the browsing experience in the years to come.

Chrome is the open source web browser from the house of Google, Google launched its web browser to bestow unmatched browsing experience to the users, Google chrome promises the users stability, security, simplicity and speed, unlike other web browsers. It is an all out visual retreat for the users, most of the queries and the functions are explained using visuals for simple and easy interpretation.

The comic book released by the Google explaining the features and process of the Google Chrome, will tell you how far the Google is dedicated to provide users a friendly and revolutionary web-based applications and services.

How chrome greets the user:

When you click the Google Chrome browser icon, you are greeted with the nine thumbnails of most visited sites unlike other browsers that open up with a home page or a blank page. The users can stroll through the thumbnails of their choice for websites at their convenience instead of entering the URL every time in the address bar.  Besides it has the bookmark lists, search box to enable search into the history of visited sites, and recently used tabs.

Google chrome has simplified the browser interface, they have restricted with fewer options that are necessary, unlike redundant multiple options in the interface of other browsers. When we look in to the window of other browsers, they have a menu bar, navigation bar and a title bar, but in Chrome they have completely vanquished this interface. Google Chrome has cut down lot of extra option to make it simple and fast compared to other browsers; it has just used five intrinsic right click options.

It looks like Google has made it a point to give the same stripped-down appearance like the Google home page. The browser gives a full screen appearance that gives a comprehensive browsing experience to the users, without the hassles of clouded interface that occupy 30 percent of the browser.

The Omni box the term Google uses for the address bar does a double it acts as a search bar and the address bar, when you insert a word it assume it as search and when you enter a URL it does hunt for you in the internet. It lists web pages as soon as you enter the first letter of the URL with respect to the website popularity and previously visited sites.

More on Google chrome on the next post.

This kind of tools are very useful for any translation and to anticipate to bump non-perfect English language anyplace you estate your eyes on.

Even though everything is all right as long as the subscribers get the content, being unceasingly bombarded with bad English is decidedly not a pleasant experience and I recognize absolutely well that my English language is far from unflawed. I live in a nation where English language is verbalized generally inside English classes at school. So that’s why I have to working hard to make a good point of that my spelling skills isn’t attending to give our dear editors here “the time of our life”.

That is why I forever look forward to attempting tools that can better to build my great articles, particularly the ones that can be incorporated with my World Wide Web life. One such tool is After The Deadline. This is the tool that will offer clients with contextual spell checking, boosted expressive style checking, and reasoning grammar checking. It will utilize their server to give you a more exact check of your writing, and it anticipates to better your writing skills and drop less time editing.

Jump In, The Water’s Fine

AtD (short for After the Deadline) is useable for a lot of computer programs. But before you are able to begin utilizing the divine service, you require an AtD API key. You are able to get one by registering at their site. In my opinion, the most easy one to utilize is the web browser bookmarklet. Just drag and drop the “Add Proofreader” bookmarklet link to your browser’s bookmarker bar. Get through on it every time you would like to activate AtD.

Just jump to their original site at AftertheDeadline.com and get this freeware tools. Good luck..!!!

When you select Start Private Browsing, Firefox add the text “(Private Browsing)” to its window title bar. In the private browsing mode, your existing tabs closed, but they reappear when you turn off the private browsing mode or close the private browsing window. In a Private Browsing session, Firefox won’t keep any browser history, search history, download history, web form history, cookies, or temporary internet files.  However, the download files and bookmarks you make will be kept.

You can make the Firefox forget any site in your history. When you want to perform Clear Recent History, Firefox allows you to clear the past hour, two hours, four hours, or whole day, or every thing. It also allows you to selectively clear browsing and download history, cache, cookies, logins, and site preference. Thus you have more control over cleaning the History.

Personas or themes

Firefox offers a variety of personas or themes for changing its appearance. Many personas can be downloaded from the Mozilla Update web site.

Extensions

Firefox has wealth of extensions. Extensions allow the addition of new features through the installation of small software modules. Mozilla Foundation provides a lot of extensions for download on the Mozilla Update site. Most extensions are small in size (only few kilobytes). There have been some security issues in using extensions. There is a possibility for a user to download a malicious extension. Firefox must be restarted after extensions are installed, uninstalled or disabled. You can upgraded all themes and extensions downloaded from the Mozilla Update site through the browser interface itself. The extensions help the user to do things in a convenient way. This is one of the main strengths of Firefox.

Security

Firefox is the browser of choice in the matter of security. You can easily access information about the validity of any site by clicking on the small icon to the left of the URL. Sites with valid identity information the icon area turns green and you can find the site owner information and encryption status by clicking the icon. They are listed under a green cop image. You can check this by visiting Paypal site.

Conclusion

The Firefox has few disadvantages also. Still the performance, convenience and security made it choice of power users.

Abiword is a free/open source word processor application. It looks very similar to MS Word and comes with a plethora of features like spell checking, interactive rulers and tabs, styles, fine and replace and image support. It is also compatible to some extent with MS Word and can open RTF and .doc files. The software is very lean and has low memory footprint.

Abiword is definitely an alternative to costly products such as the MS Office suite. It is also a good alternative to OpenOffice which requires better hardware to run. Abiword can be installed on all Linux distributions.

When it comes to the interface, the software is very simple and straightforward. The learning curve is very low and the user can become very well versed with the software is just a few hours of using it. Additional functionalities can be added to the software by using plugins.

Abiword supports multiple languages. It can also check spellings and grammar in these languages–required foreign language dictionaries can be installed during software installation.

Abiword is available for Windows, Linux and FreeBSD. Since the software is open source, it is also be compile and install the software from source on all these platforms.

The latest version of Abiword features several improvements. It now integrates with AbiCollab Web service which allows users to share documents easily.

[Download Abiword: http://www.abisource.com/]

Features that made Firefox popular
Some of the new features in the latest version include: personas, or themes that help users to personalize the appearance of Firefox; a plug-in updater that will detect out-of-date plug-ins; stability improvements and performance tuning. Now, we will see some features that made the user prefer Firefox over other browsers.

Fine Tunings in Tabbed browsing
Firefox supports tabbed browsing. This allows users to open multiple pages in the same window. There has been lot of fine tuning in this feature. You can rearrange your tags by dragging them. When you open a new tab in Firefox 3.5, the existing ones slide to the left. Firefox also permits multiple homepages. It may be your current pages, or a group of Bookmarks. They are automatically opened in separate tabs. You can drag a tab into a new Firefox window by dragging it to the desktop—or drag a window back into the open browser to make it a tab. Firefox offer a blank white page on new tabs. If you have multiple tabs opened and you are attempting to close the browser, it will ask whether you want to save the open tabs for your next session or just quit. If you save them, you will get all your tabs and sites when you reopen Firefox next time. Firefox had an “Open recently closed tabs” and reopen recently closed windows option. So even if you’ve closed a tab or a whole browser window unintentionally you won’t lose them.

Awesome Bar
One of the special features of Firefox is the address bar. The address bar is officially called the location bar. When you start typing in it, it suggests a list of Web destinations based on your browsing history. The search bar is resizable now. You can divide the space between the location and search bars to your taste.

There is a star in the right side of the Location bar. It gives you a simple way to mark a page as a favorite, the difference between starring and bookmarking is this. Firefox’s star saves the page as a bookmark. That means the page doesn’t show up in the top-menu Bookmarks item, but it does show up in Recently Bookmarked.

Download manager
The download manager in the Firefox has the ability to pause and resume downloads and you can search the previous downloads. Once the Download is completed it is automatically scanned for viruses. You can change the default location where downloads are saved.

Some more features of firefox on later posts. Stay close.

Actually, this useful tools was develop at the first time by the undergraduate college of senior design project that tech and mentored by Microsoft, and now it was already maintained by some of the alumni of the college of senior design that originally worked on it. For your information, this tools was intended for the free replacement of the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows right now. So, you will get it as the free package when you install the Microsoft Windows at your computer. This tools was begun and grown into the powerful, affordable but yet simple image and photo editor tool for the users. Now this tools was already compared to the other paid or non paid digital photo editing software packages in the world such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.

So, here this the simple introduction for this useful imaging tools. You can simply download it at no cost through their site at Paint.Net or through this direct Paint.NET download link. At the articles we will post about the features and the performance test for this tools. So, enjoy your weekend buddy,

Linux (pronounced LI-nuks or LI-nooks) is a free computer operating system. Actually, Linux is just the kernel i.e. the core of the operating system. Most Linux distros contain thousands of free software applications. Linux is open source software. This means that the underlying code is freely available for everyone to view, modify and distribute (even sell!). You may be aware that computer applications are developed using a programming language. Operating systems are no exceptions.

Migrating from Windows to Linux can be a bit daunting. If you are used to the user interface provided by Windows, you will have to put in some effort to get used to the new interface. Linux distributions commonly contain more than one user interface. For example, you can install KDE, GNOME, FluxBox, XFCE, etc. on most Linux distributions. Some of these look similar to Windows. However, some can be quite different and you may find them a bit difficult to use.

Most software that is available for Windows has open source alternatives on Linux. For example, for Internet Explorer, you have Mozilla Firefox, Photoshop has GIMP and so on. However, the main issue here is that in some cases, the free software do tend to lag behind. For example, there is no real alternative to Photoshop. GIMP works but it lags behind Photoshop in many features.

When it comes to Linux, it is not all about money. It is about a unique intellectual culture. And this culture relies on sharing on information and helping others. You can readily get a taste of this by posting your doubts and queries to Linux forums such as http://www.linuxquestions.org. There are always people to help and you will find help. However, you have to try to find your own answers first. Remember, there is no guru elsewhere! You have to find your own guru inside you!

To get started with Linux, check out www.Ubuntu.com. Ubuntu is one of the most popular distributions today. It is also very user friendly. See www.distrowatch.com for more Linux distros.