Despite all the wonderful distractions they can open us up to, computers can also (surprisingly) be used to complete important tasks for both your work and for personal use. Use the following suggestions to help be as productive as possible.
Microsoft Office, also known as MS Office, is a popular software suite featuring many desktop publishing programs. It comes with everything that may come into use in a Read More
Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet application created by the Microsoft Corporation for the Windows and Mac Operating Systems. Features of the program include graphing, Read More
Open Office is an open source office suite. It is compatible with all the major office suites, but Open Office is free to download, use and distribute. Open Office offers 6 Read More
StarOffice is a software package like Microsoft Office. It's produced by Sun Microsystems. You get spreadsheet, word processing, presentation, drawing and data base Read More
Microsoft Office is often referred to as Microsoft Office Suite. It is a widely used group of interconnected desktop applications designed for both Windows and Mac computer Read More
Microsoft Office Publisher is part of the Microsoft Office suite of programs and is a good intro level desktop publishing system for the home user. Users of other Microsoft Read More
Microsoft Access is an office product that allows the user to create relational databases that have tables of data. Learn about examples of asset databases in Microsoft Read More
An eHow user asked for an article explaining how to install Microsoft Office products for free. Sadly, it's not possible to get Microsoft products free. But there are Read More
How to use iWork; learn all about Pages, Keynote, and Numbers in this free instructional video. Read More
The iWork '08 by Apple is a complete productivity suite for Mac computers. This software contains upgrades for iMac spreadsheet, Pages word processor and Keynote Read More
Apple's Keynote is a presentation program bundled together with Pages, a word-processing program, and Numbers, a spreadsheet program in iWork '09. Having replaced Read More
With inexpensive high-quality printers on the market these days and equally high quality papers, there's no excuse for not having your own business cards. iWork '09, Read More
Microsoft Word is the standard word processing application for computers running the Windows operating system. Word is not a central program on the Mac, which comes Read More
Linus Torvald didn't set out to change the face of computing, nor did he think that his little emulator program would become the kernel upon which hundreds of operating Read More
Ubuntu is a free Linux-based operating system. Ubuntu packages store all of the information you need to run specific programs. You can install both source and binary Read More
Whether you have decided to dual-boot your system with Linux and Windows or you are doing a clean install of Linux and removing Windows, you should backup your Outlook Read More
Ubuntu is a free Linux-based operating system. You can install Adobe Acrobat on Ubuntu using Adobe Acrobat Reader's free software, which allows you to view and print PDF Read More
Linux offers very few choices when it comes to editing Portable Document Format files (PDFs) that you download from the Internet. Luckily, there are several programs out Read More
The Adobe Flash Player for Linux is a software package that offers more proficient memory capabilities and performs ten times faster than other systems. Hence, a smoother, Read More
The Ubuntu Linux distribution is one of the most popular Linux distributions available today. However, because it's freely distributed and follows a strict policy of not Read More
Google Earth is a virtual globe application that is free-for-personal use on Windows, Mac and Linux systems. It maps the earth using images from aerial photography, Read More
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