When it comes to word processing, data analysis, and other documentation tasks, Microsoft Office is not the only solution. There are many free and open-source office productivity suites available on the web, both web-based applications and desktop software you can use without paying a penny.

Instead of purchasing costly Microsoft Office suite, you may download open-source Apache’s OpenOffice to your computer fulfilling your daily documentation needs. Web-based office suite like Google Docs can be used directly on your web browser, no installation required. The beauty part of it is that you can easily store saved document files to Google Drive, which is good for online collaboration works. Read more…

A source code editor is a text editor program designed specifically for editing source code of computer programs by programmers. It may be a standalone application or it may be built into an integrated development environment (IDE). In this article, we would like to introduce you some simple yet professional free source code editors which can be used as a replacement for Notepad or Dreamweaver.

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Every day, entire forests are cut down to make paper. Paper that’s senselessly used to print out documents all over the world: websites, emails, even entire reports instead of those few pages that are really needed and read. This happens in spite of the fact that it’s easy to avoid printing by saving the document as a PDF. So to stop unnecessary printing and encourage a new awareness about the use of paper, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) developed a new, green file format: WWF. A format that can’t be printed out. It’s a simple way to avoid unnecessary printing and you can open it with most programs that can open PDFs.

So here’s your chance to save trees and help the environment. Decide for yourself which documents don’t need printing out, then simply save them as WWF. Read more…

OpenOffice.org (also known as OOo or OpenOffice) is a free, open source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It supports over 110 languages and works with Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other computer operating systems. Its default file is in OpenDocument format (ODF) for data interchange. However it is also compatible with other major office software packages, so you can open, edit and save documents in formats as diverse as Microsoft Office, WordPerfect, Lotus, PDF, HTML, XML, etc. Best of all, Openoffice.org can be downloaded for free and you can use it for any purpose. It is definitely a compelling alternative office suite to Microsoft Office.

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