Friday, November 17, 2006

Computing on a budget

If you like computers but can't afford software you now have no excuse!! A free opensource Office Suite is Open Office. It has a word processor, a spreadsheet program, a database program , a presentation, and a drawing program. In addition to being free, it is also compatible with the "monopoly's" suite. There are even advantages to using it. It can save in PDF files which at the present the monopoly's suite is unable to do. This can be downloaded from www.openoffice.org
If you would like a good open source web browser, Mozilla has Firefox. This can be obtained at http://www.mozilla.orgThe last Netscape browser still had the capability of creating webpages with the Composer. The most recent update does not have this present.
Hence, NVU is the program you want to use if would like to create a web page. This can be downloaded from http://www.nvu.com I could list numerous gems but will save that for a later day!