By Ricky Bracken Open source software has taken the marketplace by storm. Small business owners and multinational companies alike are using open source software to run their daily business operations. Today, open source software can meet the needs of various industries and market segments including those requiring an application server, web server, productivity suite, CRM [...]

If you haven’t tried Scribus, you should. It’s a free and open source desktop publisher that rivals Adobe Pagemaker. Scribus makes use of frames. For example, to enter text you have to create a frame first. Likewise with images that you want to insert. The frames are resizeable and moveable. This makes it easy to [...]

Here’s a video I prepared that shows you how to mailmerge using OpenOffice applications. Mailmerge is merging a database with a form letter, so you compose one form letter but, when you print it, it prints out several copies, each with a different addressee so it looks like you personally wrote that addressee. Mailmerging saves [...]

Ubuntu 9.04 has been released and I’ve upgraded. The verdict? It’s better and faster. I can’t compare it with Windows or the Mac, since I’ve forever scorned Microsoft and I’ve never used a Mac. But if you want an article on comparison, here’s one by Renai LeMay: Ubuntu 9.04 as slick as Windows 7, Mac [...]

Because of this site’s name, many people come here looking for free speech-to-text or speech recognition software. Actually, this site talks about free or open source software, especially in relation to online marketing. Truth be told, however, I’m also in the lookout for speech recognition open source software. When I was using Windows XP, I [...]