Choice of Open Office: Alternative of Microsoft Office

This article is written by good friend Sunil. It is about alternative of Microsoft office. This option is open source and free.

If you are a computer user then you are invariably using MS office software package developed by Microsoft that provides you facilities like word processing, spreadsheet, picture manager presentation etc in short MS office is the basic need of a computer.

In case you wish to use any other option for MS office then you have the choice of Open Office to do so which is an open source productivity source that can be used for graphics, database, word processing, spreadsheet and other related works easily. Open Office is available in different languages as per your need and it can work in almost any computer. Open Office Saves your data in international open standard format and you can open your files developed in other office packages as well. You can download Open Office software visiting link given at the bottom of this post, free of cost.

Open Office has provided many versions and its version 3.4.0 has been downloaded by almost 12 million users so far. Open Office has introduced its latest version 3.4.1 recently which supports almost every operating system. Open Office has Open Document Format as its file format (ODF) although it supports other file formatting systems as well, that is if you have created a file in MS Office you can open it in Open Office also.

You should have following in your system

1- Any of the following version of Windows like XP, Windows7 etc

2- RAM 256 MB

3- Spare Disc space 650MB for installation

You can install Open Office at Linux, max etc. You should have Java runtime environment.

Main modules under Open office

Writer- for bigger jobs

Calc- For working on spreadsheet

Impress- For presentation jobs

Base-For Database management

Draw- For editing graphics etc

Math- To work on mathematical formulas 

Download and get more information about it from HERE.

Image courtesy of winnond / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

Interesting Features: New Microsoft Office 2013

This Tuesday Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer has introduced next version of Microsoft Office and surprise many people. This new version of office will be more efficient than any previous version of office. Its preview is already available on office site, look at the below video.

The new office version is specially developed for windows 8 operating system and touch based tablets.  The new features on new version that works quite well on touch, stylus, mouse or keyboard across new windows devices, including tablets. As there is more competition from other companies, they have also introduced cloud based service in this new version. 

Let’s see about its new feature in little detail.

New Office Features :

Touch Friendly: The new office system will work quite well with touch screen tablets. It will respond to touch as normally as keyboard and mouse. So those tablet users can easily use this version of office. You can easily swipe your fingers on it to read document easily, you can also pinch the document to zoom in and zoom out to read it more clearly. So access all those features with your fingers.

Inking: You can easily write anything with your finger, means handwriting is better and it will convert them in to text automatically. You can also color your content and erase them more easily with this new version.

Cloud Service with Sky Drive: As I mentioned that Microsoft also have introduced cloud based service in this new office version. You just need to sign in your live id and office will be automatically synchronized with your sky drive. Office will automatically save your documents to sky drive. So you can access your documents from any device, like computer, tablet and phone. So you can access your files from anywhere.  

After singing into office, you can get your personalized settings and recently used files on the screen. So this new version of office will brings you to the position that you had left last. So you can easily carry on your work again.

Edit PDF and Save: You can also edit your pdf files using new Office and also can save them in their adobe format. So it is good news for those who always need to edit their pdf files.

Add Videos in Document: Users can also embed their videos into document and play them directly on the new office. So this is quite new feature given by Microsoft. I am sure this new feature will be quite appreciated.

Adding photos directly from Famous Sites: You can also add photos from few famous sites like flickr, facebook and many more directly. I mean no need to save them in to your computer hard disk. This is another good feature in the new office version.

Windows RT: Office home and Student 2013 RT which is having those new versions of excel, word, power point and other, will be available on ARM- based windows 8 devices, including Microsoft surface.

New windows 8 applications: Windows 8 will have the new applications for new office and that will be OneNote and Lync. These new applications are included to deliver touch-first experiences on a tablet.

Good for socializing: Using new office we can integrate our account of Yammer social site on it. Yammer is having integration SharePoint and Microsoft Dynamics. Yammer is good social site for businesses. You can sign up for free their and start using it. Using SharePoint you can follow people, team and documents directly from the office. New office has also Skype in it, after subscription you will get 60 minutes for free every month on skype. You can integrate your Skype contact into Lync and contact with them instantly directly from office.

So this is it. So far I came to know about this much features in new version of Office. And I think it is having many good features which will be appreciated by many users. Personally even I like these new changes. This will surely increase the competition between big companies and they will try something more to go ahead from each other. I hope you like this information. Have Fun. :)

How to Partition a Hard Drive?

Do you have enough partition in your system?? Having more partition is the good and important thing to manage your photos, videos, documents and all other files. By having multiple partition we can manage those files more easily. Also searching of files will be become more easy if we having enough partition in our system.

But still we need to keep in mind that we give partition to our hard drive as per its size. I mean creating many partition of small size will be just create problems instead of making comfort.

How To Make Partition On Installed Operating System??

Well, For that we having some good software available on Internet. But here, I am giving detail about one of them. Which is quite easy to use and FREE too. 

Its EasyUs Partition Master Home Edition. Its totally free and a good software for making partition of computer's hard disk. 

Just install it on your system. And then you can perform various task on your current partition. Just read all its features.

What you can Do with it ??

• You can Re-Size your current partition
• You can combine two of your current partition and make the bigger one without loosing data
• You can create another another partition by taking space from your current partition
• You can create and delete the partitions
• You can speed up your computer by defragmentation
• Can copy partition and whole hard disk
• You can also Recover your lost or deleted partitions

See there are lots of stuffs you can do with this software. And I am sure many of them are very useful for our system.

It is support almost all windows operating system. (windows 2000/xp/vista/Windwos 7)

To download :  Click HERE

Have Fun.

Rocket Dock !! Cool Looking Desktop Application Launcher !!

Rocket Dock. Have you heard about this application. Its really a good software to launch our favorite applications from the Desktop. Its like cool Animated Bar on the desktop screen on which we can put any application like shortcut and launch those applications by just a single click. It has cool animation effect on mouse move event. 

Have a look its appearance in this pic :

See the pic how it looks. Its really looks cool on our desktop. In above pic this bar is having default icons on it. But you can change their icons as you like and also put your own applications on the bar, so you can launch them easily by just a single click. We can put this bar on any corner of the window as we like. If someone feels that they having lots of icons on their desktop screen then this software is perfect for them. They can put those icon on this bar. As this bar not occupy the whole screen and as its look more cool too so its a great option to have. 

Its quite easy to put apps on this bar too. Just need simple drag and drop and you will have that app on that bar. And also it is fully customizable. You can customize it the way you want. You can also change the appearance of it and also select the different animation on mouse hover.

So I guess its really worthy application to have. You can customize your desktop very well using this app. It runs good on slower computers too. And most important thing is that its FREE.

To Download : Click Here

I hope you liked it. :) Have fun.

Easy BCD Tool : Manage Your Boot Loader Screen

Easy BCD is the great tool for managing your windows boot loader screen. I don't know whether it is available for other operating system or not. But it works perfectly in the Windows Operating systems. You can download it for free by searching it from the google. It is famous so you will not face any difficulties in searching it.

Easy Bcd tool gives us the total control on the starting process of the windows operating system. Suppose you having two operating system in your computer. Then this tool will allows you to manage those OS entries in the boot loader screen.  You can also change the name of the operating system entries in boot loader screen. Even order of those entries can be changed using it. 

EXAMPLE OF ITS USEFULNESS : How to ADD windows XP on Windows 7 ?

Its easy if you want to keep only one of them. But now suppose you want to keep both of them, then you have to install the other one on different partition. Now if you having windows xp and you want to add windows 7 on another partition then it will not create any problem as windows 7 boot loader screen will recognize windows xp.  And you can easily install it on another partition using windows 7 CD. 

But there will be problem if you want to add widows 7 in another partition, if you having windows xp already installed as windows xp boot screen will not able to recognize the windows 7 operating system. Now what to do?? Don't worry just follow below procedure and it will be done.

Just insert the windows 7 cd after installing the windows xp (if you having windows xp already then go ahead by inserting cd). Now boot the cd and from setup just select the repair windows option. Then using it just repair the start up problem. Now this will repair your windows 7 again and you can open it. But still you will not able to see windows XP in it.

Now here it comes use of Easy BCD tool. You just need to insert windows xp entry using this software in your windows 7 boot loader screen. That's it. Now you can enjoy two operating system together. You can select any of them form your windows boot loader screen.

Taking Screen Shots !! Free Snipping Tool For Windows

We always need to take a screen shot of our screen to share it with others. For that mostly people use print screen option( by pressing fn(function key) + prt sc) . And pasting them in paint for editing option. But there is more easier way to do the same. Now you can take a screen shot very easily by following this procedure. 

Snipping tool is the great tool for taking screen shot from our computer directly. No need to use that print screen option and paint as by using snipping tool you can take a screen shots more easily and  fast. It is less time consuming. Just use the mount pointer then click at one point and drag it as per you need to take a screen shot. And that's it, all done !! And you can edit and put text on image directly using this tool. And save that screen shot in your PC directly.

This tool is in-built in newer version of Windows like Windows 7 and Windows Vista.  But I guess still many people are not aware with this tool as I have seen many people who are still using the Print Screen option. May be they became used to of it. But this tool can surely save lots of time instead of using that old trick to take screenshot.

For Windows Xp I guess it is not available. To download it please refer this : http://microsoft-snipping-tool.software.informer.com/

Which one you are using?? Still that old trick ! Then change it now. ;)

New Connectify : Tether Wifi on all Window OS !!

What is Internet Tethering using Wifi ??

Internet Tethering means we can share our Internet connection using Wifi to any other wifi available device. For example, Suppose I have tether my Internet connection using this software via wifi from my laptop, that means my system became one kind of wifi hot spot and now I can connect that Internet connection on my mobile using Wifi. Not only mobile but any wifi available device can be connected to that internet wireless !!!

Update: This kind of software are very limited . So I am glad that they have launched this new version which is compatible with Windws XP and other windows OS too.

Suppose you are having internet and you can share that same internet with your multiple devices like laptop, mobile and tab. Yes, it is now possible. You can easily share your internet connection over wifi with your other wifi enabled devices. For that you only need one free app, with that you can easily make your own free wifi hotspot and share your internet connection with other devices with password protection. So it is safe too. Check out below link for more information.

Connectify

How it is possible?

Connectify is the software I am talking about. With this software you can easily share your internet connection over wifi (with password protection) to any wifi enabled device. Not only one you can share it  with multiple devices at one time. For that you just need to download software from this site and good thing is that it is totally free. After downloading and installing the lightweight application, Connectify utilizes your computer's built in Wi-Fi card to wirelessly share any available Internet connection: a cable modem, a cellular card, or even another Wi-Fi network. Other Wi-Fi enabled devices including laptops, smart phones, music players, and gaming systems can see and join your Connectify hotspot just like any other Wi-Fi access point and are kept safe and secure by password-protected WPA2 Encryption.

Isn't that great! Our own free WiFi Hot Spot. But the only draw back i found so far is this software is only for Windows 7 operating system(This thing is old). Now worries for XP users, with new and upgraded version you can easily tether your internet via windows xp and other operating system too.

Just look at below's image...

As you can see in image we just have to choose our WiFi name,Password(if we want) and the Internet Connection which we want to choose for this. This is it. Enjoy. So this is how we can done wifi tethering using our computer.

Have fun.

Resizing Animated Images

Its quite easy to resize the normal images. I mean there are many ways for doing it. But resizing animated images is quite different thing. To resize animated images we need to resize its each and every frames. So it may be hard for normal users like us.

But there is a easy way of resizing animated images(.gif formats).  We can resize these kind of images using 'GIF Resizer' Software. Its freely available on Internet. Just search the name in Google and I am sure you will get it quite easily.

In software, we just need to adjust size of output image as per our requirement. And that's it. It will resize all frames automatically and give you animated image as per your requirement. I am uploading its image below so you can have some idea :

Access Your Partner/Friend's Computer Remotely

If we having Internet facility than we can access our friend or any other's computer remotely. Just Click on below image to go on Team Viewer Site :

We just need to install this software from this site. And We can easily access any(not without permission/password) computer remotely. 

About TeamViewer: Team Viewer can easily connects to any Computer or server around the world within a few seconds. We can remote control our partner or friend's computer as if we were sitting right in front of it. 

How It Works : This software provide us one ID and one Password. ID is permanent for a particular Computer(will be different in other Computers) but Password will be automatically generated (will be different each time) when we open this software. So if we want to access any friend's computer then we have to ask him for his ID and Password(which will be different each time) to connect with his computer. And have to share our ID and Password if someone wants to access our computer. As Password is automatically generated each time, so once we break the connectivity with the second computer then that computer can't connect with our computer with the same password. So its a reliable too. :)

Many big companies are using this software to solve their customers problems . And why not ?? They can easily solve any problem without going at their customer's home. So even if some friend having some problem with his/her  computer system or any other computer related problem, we can easily sort it out with the help of this Software from our Home !!! Have Fun.

Make your laptop as WiFi Hot Spot !!! Wifi Thetering

Suppose you are having internet and you can share that same internet with your multiple devices like laptop, mobile and tab. Yes, it is now possible. You can easily share your internet connection over wifi with your other wifi enabled devices. For that you only need one free app, with that you can easily make your own free wifi hotspot and share your internet connection with other devices with password protection. So it is safe too. Check out below link for more information.

Connectify

How it is possible?

Connectify is the software I am talking about. With this software you can easily share your internet connection over wifi (with password protection) to any wifi enabled device. Not only one you can share it  with multiple devices at one time. For that you just need to download software from this site and good thing is that it is totally free. After downloading and installing the lightweight application, Connectify utilizes your computer's built in Wi-Fi card to wirelessly share any available Internet connection: a cable modem, a cellular card, or even another Wi-Fi network. Other Wi-Fi enabled devices including laptops, smart phones, music players, and gaming systems can see and join your Connectify hotspot just like any other Wi-Fi access point and are kept safe and secure by password-protected WPA2 Encryption.

Isn't that great! Our own free WiFi Hot Spot. But the only draw back i found so far is this software is only for Windows 7 operating system(This thing is old). Now worries for XP users, with new and upgraded version you can easily tether your internet via windows xp and other operating system too.

Just look at below's image...

As you can see in image we just have to choose our WiFi name,Password(if we want) and the Internet Connection which we want to choose for this. This is it. Enjoy. So this is how we can done wifi tethering using our computer.

Have fun.