For my second offering in the world of free software I can do no better than recoment the excellent OPEN OFFICE.
Open office is a REAL alternative to Microsoft office.
I have been using it for a couple of years now and can't see myself returning to the Microsoft counterpart.This realy is an essential piece of kit and will provide you with a fully functioning office suite for FREE.
WRITER
Is an invaluable & easy to use word processor offering many familiar functions & tools that helps improve the writing process
Calc
Is a unique spread sheet program that differentiates itself by providing a number of time-saving features not available in other software.
Impress
Is an innovative multimedia presentation program that enhances the creative process. Your presentations will impress with its special features.
Draw
Is an effective, expressive and versatile tool to help draw plans, graphics or diagrams
Base
Effortlessly creates and handles databases for forms, reports and other entries while providing easy access to all entries.
Math
Builds and edits mathematical formulas that can easily be anchored inside your documents.
And as if that wasn't enough, to save you even more money you can enjoy Free digital post it notes on your computer screen.
Stickies are virtual post it note that can be configure to any colour and even have alarms set to them and much much more I use them all the time to remind me of things and a great feature is that they do not dissapear when you turn off your PC as soon as you reboot they reappear.
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Tuesday, 20 May 2008
Easy e mail solutions
Hi I would like to start off my first ever blog post with a fantastic time saving tip.
In reality there is a little work to be done before you reap the rewards but believe me it is worth it.
I have just had to reformat my hard drive and once upon a time this would have involved a lot of stress involving trying to back up my e mail and then trying to reinstall it later on. That is a thing of the past.
Down to business.
In reality there is a little work to be done before you reap the rewards but believe me it is worth it.
I have just had to reformat my hard drive and once upon a time this would have involved a lot of stress involving trying to back up my e mail and then trying to reinstall it later on. That is a thing of the past.
Down to business.
- Firstly you need to partition your hard drive. This effectively divides your hard drive into two or more virtual sections to do this I use a piece of software called partition magic.
Partition magic takes all the stress out of partitioning your drive. - So now you have partitioned your drive you should have at least two partitions your C drive and your newly created drives the one we will be dealing with should be your D drive.
- Now we are going to install our new FREE e mail client called Thunderbird Portable.
We will install this on our D drive the beauty of this is that we can literally drag this mail client onto a memory stick and take it anywhere we wish and access our e mail as though we were at home. - So now we have our e mail sorted we might want to add a calender and task list so that it is more like MS Outlook we can easily do this by downloading and installing the FREE extension Lightning.
So there you have it a Free mail client you can drag and drop anywhere and when you have to format your hard drive you only format the C drive leaving all you mail safe and sound.
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