Boo!
It’s October, and that means one thing. Halloween! It’s time to pick out your costume, carve that jack-o-lantern and put up the spooky decorations. Well, there’s one part of your house that everyone forgets to decorate–your computer! You need a way to brighten up your computer and get with the Halloween sprit. You need a Halloween screensaver or a spooky wallpaper!
OpenOffice: Download from here!
Base is the open source database manager designed to be the free replacement for $499.95 Microsoft Access. By building databases, users can store large amounts of information, put their information in order, and search for information quickly and easily. For example, schools often create databases of students. This allows administrators to view students by searching for their student id, name, grade, or class schedule.
Open Office Base’s features include:
Impress is the open source answer to Microsoft Office’s PowerPoint. PowerPoint presentations have become the method of choice when it comes to business presentations, class projects and whenever someone wants to pass on information in a clear way. PowerPoint presentations are not the only option. Impress offers many of PowerPoint’s features–but without the $495.99 bill.
Open Office Impress can:
Open Office Calc is the open source answer to Microsoft Office’s Excel. Both Calc and Excel are spreadsheet creators and editors but there are many major differences between open source Calc and Excel—the first and possibly most important of which is that, while Excel can cost as much as $499.95, Calc is absolutely free.
Open Office Calc can:
The word processor has become a necessary piece of equipment for everyone and Microsoft Word is the household name and the go-to product, but it’s not the only choice. Open Office’s Writer is the open source answer to Microsoft Word. Writer has all the major functions of Microsoft Word without the hassle of Word’s proprietary formats and the $499.95 bill.
Writer has many of the same features as Microsoft Word:
-- Spelling and grammar checking
-- Auto correct
-- Styles and formatting
-- Headers and footers
-- Support for insertion of images and graphs
