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Tomboy — UBUNTU’s Great Note Pad

UBUNTU (the great-looking and totally free Linux operating system for your computer http://www.ubuntu.com/) comes with a very useful built-in notebook utility called TOMBOY. It is under Applications...

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UBUNTU’s “Virtual Desktops” End Multi-Window Clutter

Remember how you have a single desktop on a Windows machine and that everything runs there? Do you also remember how annoying it can get when you have 2, 3 or 4 programs open at the same time, with...

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NeoOffice Recovery Procedure

NeoOffice works pretty well on my MacBook. Actually I’ve finished a 30 page report on Article Marketing, complete with a full-color cover. At some point NeoOffice just froze up. I force-quit the...

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How to link an image to an URL with Image Map in NeoOffice?

1) Select the image and right-click on it to display the pop-up menu: 2) Select the Image Map to display the Image Map Editor: 3) Select one of the 4 image map buttons on the menu bar: Rectangle,...

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How to Recycle Through Open Documents in NeoOffice?

Imagine you have 10 documents open on your NeoOffice. How would you recycle from one to the other? One way to do it of course is to click the Window menu and select the document you want. But this gets...

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Operating Systems – Linux or Windows? Long Live UBUNTU!

Ubuntu is a great Linux Distribution. As I’m writing these words, a major computer wholesaler has decided to ship some of its new models with Linux Operating System. They have selected UBUNTU’s 7.04...

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Open Source Software – 10 Great Free Tools of Technical Communication

Are you sick and tired of paying hundreds of dollars for writing and design software that does not work? You may want to give the following open-source programs a try. OpenOffice, the king and queen of...

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Technical Writing – How Wikis will Transform Technical Writers into...

In case you are not too familiar with it, Wiki is a web site that can be built by many authors together. That’s its most basic definition. But “wiki,” which means “quick” in Hawaiian, refers to the...

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Technical Writing – Top 3 Open Source Software You Can Use to Write and...

© 2009 Ugur Akinci I use Adobe FrameMaker and Microsoft Office on a daily basis, and Microsoft Visio, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrate on an almost-daily basis. These are the tools of the technical...

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Zoho – A Great (and FREE) Online Word Editor

© 2010 Ugur Akinci Sometimes you are away from your home or office computer and you need to write something and mail it right away. However, you need to have a layout, headers, footers, and even some...

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Tomboy — UBUNTU’s Great Note Pad

UBUNTU (the great-looking and totally free Linux operating system for your computer http://www.ubuntu.com/) comes with a very useful built-in notebook utility called TOMBOY. It is under Applications...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

UBUNTU’s “Virtual Desktops” End Multi-Window Clutter

Remember how you have a single desktop on a Windows machine and that everything runs there? Do you also remember how annoying it can get when you have 2, 3 or 4 programs open at the same time, with...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

NeoOffice Recovery Procedure

NeoOffice works pretty well on my MacBook. Actually I’ve finished a 30 page report on Article Marketing, complete with a full-color cover. At some point NeoOffice just froze up. I force-quit the...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

How to link an image to an URL with Image Map in NeoOffice?

1) Select the image and right-click on it to display the pop-up menu: 2) Select the Image Map to display the Image Map Editor: 3) Select one of the 4 image map buttons on the menu bar: Rectangle,...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

How to Recycle Through Open Documents in NeoOffice?

Imagine you have 10 documents open on your NeoOffice. How would you recycle from one to the other? One way to do it of course is to click the Window menu and select the document you want. But this gets...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Operating Systems – Linux or Windows? Long Live UBUNTU!

Ubuntu is a great Linux Distribution. As I’m writing these words, a major computer wholesaler has decided to ship some of its new models with Linux Operating System. They have selected UBUNTU’s 7.04...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Open Source Software – 10 Great Free Tools of Technical Communication

Are you sick and tired of paying hundreds of dollars for writing and design software that does not work? You may want to give the following open-source programs a try. OpenOffice, the king and queen of...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Technical Writing – How Wikis will Transform Technical Writers into...

In case you are not too familiar with it, Wiki is a web site that can be built by many authors together. That’s its most basic definition. But “wiki,” which means “quick” in Hawaiian, refers to the...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Technical Writing – Top 3 Open Source Software You Can Use to Write and...

© 2009 Ugur Akinci I use Adobe FrameMaker and Microsoft Office on a daily basis, and Microsoft Visio, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrate on an almost-daily basis. These are the tools of the technical...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Zoho – A Great (and FREE) Online Word Editor

© 2010 Ugur Akinci Sometimes you are away from your home or office computer and you need to write something and mail it right away. However, you need to have a layout, headers, footers, and even some...

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