The 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.

Internet Software

The guide has introduced you to a suite of programs in the Internet Software section. The following tutorials take you though the first steps in using these programs:

Using Mozilla Firefox, gives a brief overview of the main features of the guide's choice of World Wide Web browser.

Using Mozilla Thunderbird, explains the main features for sending and receiving e-mails using this excellent e-mail client.

Using WengoPhone, explains the main features of internet telephone calls using the guide's choice of VoIP client.

Office Software

The Offfice Software section gave a brief overview of the guide's choice of programs to make your office work simpler. The following tutorials provide an initial guide to using these programs:

Using OpenOffice.org gives an introduction to the OpenOffice.org suite of programs.

Using OpenOffice.org Writer explains some useful concepts when creating text documents.

Using OpenOffice.org Calc explains some useful concepts when creating spreadsheets.

Using FreeMind explains the main elements of creating a mind map.

Using the GIMP explains the main functions of this powerful image processing program.

Utility Software

The guide gave you a very short list of utility programs in the Utility Software section. The following tutorials give a brief look at these programs:

Using 7-Zip shows you how to create your own compressed archives, and extract files from compressed archives.