Archive for August, 2008

OpenOffice.org Tips : Play Star Wars Galaxy Game (Easter Egg)

By Chris Martin at 18 August, 2008, 2:04 am

There is an Easter Egg available with OpenOffice.og that allows you to play a StarWars Galaxy game.

1. Open OpenOffice and run the Spreadsheet application.

2.Take your cursor on blank cell and in a blank cell, write the following statement:
=GAME(”StarWars”)3. Press Return or Enter on your keyboard.
4. The game will appear. Make your selection for your “Hero” [...]

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Download or Export any Document from Google Docs

By Chris Martin at 14 August, 2008, 7:15 pm

Are your important documents lying inside Google Docs? Would you like to take the back up and archive your files on your own system. Unfortunately that isn’t so easy with Google docs. Once published you cannot download the document easily. The Google Doc Download Greasemonkey script adds a download link to the Google docs window [...]

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PNG2SWF- Convert PNG images into SWF file format

By Chris Martin at 13 August, 2008, 6:00 pm

Q-How to make a webshop in flash with partially transparent product images?
A-Convert number of PNG images into SWF file format.
Q-How to convert PNG images into SWF file format.

Png2swf is a freeware tool that can convert PNG files into an animated flash SWF file. It processes a number of PNG images into a SWF file.

1) Click [...]

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25 Tools to Capture Screenshots for Free.

By Chris Martin at 12 August, 2008, 3:34 am

Screen capture tool is the most important tool for webmasters and bloggers. Even in day to day activities we tend to use tools with trial versions to capture screenshots. Undoubtedly TechSmaith’s SnagIT is the best but you need to shell out heavy money to purchase the license. There are many free screen capture tools available [...]

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Take screenshots for free using Screenshotcaptor

By Chris Martin at 9 August, 2008, 4:59 pm

Screen-capture tool is the most powerful utility for bloggers. Most of the free utilities provide only the basic functionality like- Capturing rectangular area, active window, delayed capture, full screen, and clipboard. There are some more advance features that comes up with this screenshotcaptor utility for absolutely free.

How is it different from other screen capture utilities?
 

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Compress large files and folders using 7zip - Freeware

By Chris Martin at 9 August, 2008, 12:21 pm

Compressing large files and folders is not an easy task. Normally people use Winzip or Winrar evaluated versions and every time you try to compress a file with those utilities you have a pop-up window which is very annoying. Well there is an alternative; 7-Zip is a free file archiver with a high compression ratio. [...]

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How to construct custom fonts for free using Fontstruct - Video

By Chris Martin at 9 August, 2008, 2:24 am

FontStruct is popular free font-building tools that lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or brick. One can easily create ‘FontStructions’ using the ‘FontStructor’ font editor. Rob Meek will guide you through the basics of the application through the screencast below.
Introduction [...]

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Add Creative Commons License Add-in for Microsoft Office 2007

By Chris Martin at 6 August, 2008, 12:23 pm

You can now embed Creative Commons licenses directly into Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents. The Creative Commons licenses enable copyright holders to grant some or all of their rights to the public while retaining others to avoid the problems current copyright laws create for the sharing of information.

Microsoft provides with an add-in that enables [...]

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