This tutorial is a guideline on making your own letterhead on Open Office. Although there are letterhead templates in the wild, you may have a design in mind that you can only put together yourself. This should give you enough background information to do this on your own. Depending on how much glitter you want on it, it may take some artistic skill - sorry, I cannot impart that in this document.
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Keep tabs on documents with Referencer
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While desktop search engines like Beagle and Recoll can quickly find any file on your hard disk, they can't help you organize documents and files into neat and easy-to-manage collections. That's why we have tools like digiKam for managing your photos, BasKet Note Pads for keeping tabs on your notes, and Referencer for filing and tagging your documents.
Read more »New Version of AbiWord: A Free, Robust Word Processor
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AbiWord, my long-time favorite open source word processor, is out with a new version 2.6, including many useful new features. If you haven't used this application before, give it a try, and if you already do, the upgrade is worthwhile. You can browse through the release notes to see how many new additions there are.
Read more »Hunting for wireless networking solutions
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While most basic hardware support for GNU/Linux is improving constantly, wireless support remains dismal. Few manufacturers make an effort to support the operating system, or to publicize what support they have.
Read more »Catfish — easily find stuff in Thunar
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One could ask, ‘What am I supposed to do when I want to find a file, if I am using XFCE, and Thunar is my conscious choice as the file manager?’. It seems to be obvious to click with the right-mouse-button on the folder in which something to be found is expected to exist and to choose the option ‘search’ from the context menu.
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Run Downloads in Firefox Instead of Saving Them
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One of the things that has always bugged me about Firefox is that when you go to download a file it will only let you save it to your computer. Some other browsers, such as Internet Explorer, also give you an option to “run” the file.
Read more »In memoriam: free software projects of 2007
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Recently I looked in on the project Web site for a small application I use, only to find the wiki completely filled with spam. The project itself was clearly in disrepair, and the code abandoned for six months or more. I wondered: how many other apps that I use have halted development without my realizing it?
Read more »Mount ISO’s easely in gnome - nautilus
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If you want to be able to rightclick on .iso files and be able to simply select "mount" to mount them, then this is the guide for you.
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0.9.59 of Wine released
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What's new in this release (see below for details):
- Improved support for the .NET framework.
- Better services handling through a separate services.exe process.
- Support for ATI fragment shader.
- Better support for http proxies.
- Window management fixes.
- Pre-compiled fonts are now available in the source tree.
- Lots of bug fixes.
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Howto Turn Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) into Ubuntu Studio
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Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavor of Ubuntu. It’s built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional.
Our aim is to make it more accessible for new users to get into the tools that GNU/Linux has to offer for multimedia creation/production. We also want to spotlight what’s out there. Show users tools they might not have known existed
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Scientific Linux – The Big Physics Community Linux of Choice
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In the Big Physics community, Linux is quite popular. Having met with numerous groups, Linux almost always comes up as a topic of discussion and in many cases it’s part of their labs roadmap for rolling out control, test, and other systems. The first issue is cost. Microsoft Windows costs $100 or more for each computer and when you have hundreds of systems, it adds up to real money fast.
Read more »Pendrivelinux - Be cool anywhere you go
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The word cool takes an ever more significant meaning when you consider a Linux distribution running from a USB drive.
Read more »Video tutorial - installing WordPress 2.5
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So WordPress 2.5 is out, but what if you’ve never installed WordPress on your own local machine before and want to try it out? This FOSSwire Video tutorial shows you all the steps you need to take to install WordPress 2.5 on a LAMP system, in just over 5 minutes.
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Searching through the contents of emails in mutt
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Mutt has a built-in feature for search the body of emails in the current mailbox (see ESC-b) but it's also possible to make this extremely fast by plugging-in external tools. Here's a quick description of my mairix setup.
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The hidden world of Linux
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There are many great FOSS projects that utilise old PC hardware and give it a new lease of life. The best is desktop computing with various Linux distribution flavours like Mint, PCLinux, Ubuntu and countless others. In fact it is my considered belief that the best hardware to run Linux on is infact (almost) any machine that is at least 12 months old.
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