Articles tagged with: 'tutorials'

Apart from advising you on choosing from the enormous amount of software available, and showing you how to install, and uninstall the software, the guide also provides pragmatic information on using the programs.

The goal of these tutorials is to provide you with just enough knowledge to make you reasonably competent in the shortest time. They also serve as a basis to become proficient in using one or more of the programs, should you wish to invest further time on them, by offering pointers to more detailed information available on the Internet.

Mozilla Firefox is the guide's choice of web browser. This tutorial will explain using Firefox to browse web sites, among other things. If you haven't already done so, you may want to read about installing Mozilla Firefox in this article.

Mozilla Thunderbird is an excellent e-mail client. This tutorial explains how to set up your e-mail accounts, send and receive e-mails, and use filters to sort e-mails, and get rid of the spam.

WengoPhone is the guide's choice of VoIP client. It provides voice and video conferencing over the Internet. This tutorial will explain how to make contact with other users, make voice telephone calls, and exchange video.

The OpenOffice.org office suite is a big program. In this tutorial, I will introduce you to some of the most important topics, available in all of the suite's programs. The guide's choice of office suite software is OpenOffice.org, an open source project, sponsored by Sun Microsystems Inc.

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In this tutorial, we'll look at creating a mind map. Just to remind you, a mind map is a hierarchical set of nodes, connected together by edges (lines), which are displayed as a graphical map. The guide's choice of mind mapping software is FreeMind, an open source program, by Jörg Müller.

This tutorial will show you how to make basic modifications to an image. These include rotating, cropping and scaling an image, reducing an image's file size, and creating a transparent background. The guide's choice of image processing software is the GIMP.

The GIMP is capable of much more than I can show in this short tutorial, the aim here is to introduce the program to you, without introducing too many concepts (such as layers and paths) which would be needed to produce professional graphic designs.

Windows only: This tutorial will show you how to create a compressed archive file, and how to extract the contents of a compressed archive file. The guide's choice of file compression and archiving utility is 7-Zip, an open source program, by Igor Pavlov.