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Create your own PDF files for free

Thanks to Print2pdf from Software 602, a free PDF production utility, you will be able to master nearly everything you…

MS Office or OpenOffice? The comparison

Thanks to Bruce Byfield of Linux Journal, it is now possible to have a relatively fair comparison of the heavy-weight…

OpenOffice.org v3.2 available for free download

The excellent office desktop suite, OpenOffice.org (Word, Excel and PowerPoint, in a free form, if you want) just moved to…

OpenOffice, a few ideas

Just in passing, here are a few ideas to help the users of OpenOffice.org, the best replacement for Microsoft Office:…

Find your PC weaknesses

Isn’t it somewhat difficult to continuously check the status of security updates for the many software programs we have installed…

OpenOffice.org 3.0: Your free replacement for MS-Office 2007

OpenOffice.org 3.0 arrives and this is important. As a matter of fact, the free desktop suite (as interesting as the…

Chrome is not a browser

How could we ignore the launch of Chrome, the new browser from Google? Every is babbling about it, everybody tried…

Free Office Templates

A few templates for documents you would want to use with OpenOffice 3.0 or MS-Office. Microsoft Office 2007 Templates Free…

Software galore

We never can get enough of them, but our computers are sometimes overflowing. Software applications are everywhere, but how to…

Email to convert documents

If you want to convert your Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint files into PDF, just email them to pdf@koolwire.com. But…

MS-Office 2007: I want to read my files elsewhere

The bane (correction: “one of the banes”) of the new opus of the Microsoft Office saga (MS-Office 2007) is that…

Download free PowerPoint

You wanted to be able to produce those pro presentations with PowerPoint. But Microsoft Office seemed to expensive to buy…

Steal Microsoft Office!

Even if I persist in advising you not to pirate-copy MS-Office, not to download Word, Excel or PowerPoint but to…

Download Microsoft Office for free (on Apple Mac)

Really! Who would like to have Microsoft Office. It’s expensive. If you donwload it for free, it’s just illegal. However,…

A faster OpenOffice

Rather than downloading a pirated copy of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), I keep repeating that you should try a…

100 applications for your USB key

Portable apps for a portable USB key. Portable Office Software Portable Email/Calendar/ToDo Programs Portable Text and Voice Messengers Portable Media…

Color-blindness and software specification

In the spotlight: Sony Alpha 900 Canon EOS 5D Mk II Nikon D700 FX Download Nero for free Do you…

101 freeware and shareware programs

Software programs to do anything you want with your PC if you are a bit more geeky than most but…

NeoOffice: OpenOffice for Mac

NeoOffice is a OS X port of OppenOffice.org by a group of developers who have thought from the beginning that…

OpenOffice nearly compatible with 2007

OpenOffice, the free desktop suite competing directly against MS Office, reached an important milestone with the availability of version 2.2,…