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Mary Leete - Collection For Dummies

430 pages, parution le 27/07/2005

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Résumé

Searching for free software on the Web can be challenging. However, software experts Gurdy and Mary Leete have found the best, highest-quality free software programs and are anxious to share this information with readers! They show where to get these programs, how to install them, what functionality they offer, and, most importantly, how to use them effectively.

The book covers plunging into free software, office productivity software, Internet and e-mail software, multimedia software, and education and entertainment software, and also offers a directory to more free software and resources.

Describes how to find, install, use, and get the most out of such popular programs as OpenOffice (office productivity), Mozilla Firefox (Web browsing and e-mail), MySQL (database), GIMP (digital image manipulation), Flight Gear (flight simulation), and FreeCiv (multiplayer strategy game)
Web sites offering free software are booming: GNUWin had more than one million visitors in the last year, OpenOffice.org reports 20 million downloads since 2001, and Mozilla Firefox recently had more than 1 million downloads during a 100-hour period

L'auteur - Mary Leete

has published widely on computers and other subjects. She has a masters degree in Professional Writing and has taught writing at the university level. She also has a B.S. in computer science from Rutgers University and worked for several years as a database and spreadsheet programmer. Mary used OpenOffice.org exclusively to help design and build the Leetes new home. She used Draw to create numerous plans, Calc for budgets and expense accounting, Writer for endless correspondence and Impress to give seminars on the joy of being your own contractor after it was all finished.

Sommaire

Plunging Into Free Software
- How to Use Tons of Powerful, Free Software - Fast
- The Best Places to Get Free Software
Using Powerful, Free Office Software
- Word Processing with OpenOfficeorg Writer
- Formatting Your Writer Documents
- Creating Spreadsheets with OpenOfficeorg Calc
- Juggling Numbers in Calc
- Building Databases with OpenOfficeorg Base
- Creating Reports from Your Database
Exploring the Internet - More Easily, More Securely, and More Featurefully
- Surfing and Searching the Web Securely with Mozilla Firefox
- Reading E-mail with Mozilla Thunderbird
- Publishing Your Own Web Pages with OpenOfficeorg Writer
- Enjoying Podcasts with iPodder
- Making Free Phone Calls with Skype
Using Powerful, Free Multimedia Software
- Creating Graphics with OpenOfficeOrg Draw
- Making Presentations with OpenOfficeOrg Impress
- Digital Imaging with the GIMP
- Drawing and Filtering Images in the GIMP
- Drawing Diagrams with Dia
- Creating 3D Animations with Blender
- Recording Sound with Audacity
More Powerful, Free Software
- Learning with Free Educational Software
- Fun with Arcade, Simulation, Puzzle, Strategy, and 3D Games
- A Friendly, Free, and Powerful Alternative to Windows XP
The Part of Tens
- Ten Lists of More Great Free Software and Stuff: A Directory
- Ten Unreasonable Advantages of Free Software
- Appendix: Installing Programs Using KPackage and Installation Wizards

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Wiley
Auteur(s)	Mary Leete
Collection	For Dummies
Parution	27/07/2005
Nb. de pages	430
Format	19 x 23
Couverture	Broché
Poids	640g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780764595790
ISBN13	978-0-7645-9579-0