Desktop News and Articles

If you want to offer visitors to your website more than a text-based howto, why not publish a video-based tutorial with Vnc2swf.

We’ll show you a universal system for marking changes in text documents; and along the way, you’ll get some practical experience with writing OpenOffice marcos.

If your holiday videos and TV recordings are fillng up your home computer, burn them onto a DVD with Kmediafactory.

Mindmaps are useful for organizing ideas and data. Treeline is a promising mindmap tool for KDE.

If you have given up hope of ever finding your way around the mess of data on your desktop, a desktop search engine can help you penetrate the gloom. Kerry and KBeaglebar bring the Beagle engine to the KDE desktop.

The PDF format has many useful features that make it easier for readers to find their way around large documents, but the native PDF export function in OpenOffice doesn’t allow many of these elements. We’ll show you how to create better PDFs in OpenOffice with the ExtendedPDF macro.

System admins routinely refer to documentation for help with obscure command line options. In this month’s Admin Workshop, we examine the programs and formats behind the command line documentation you read everyday.

Leafnode is a Usenet server for small sites where just a few users need access to a large number of groups. The Leafnode server is designed to recover from errors autonomously and needs very little attention.

If you need fast answers for what's inside, you can use a Bash script to obtain an inventory of hardware on your Linux system.

If you need a quick and easy solution, try building your own database application in OpenOffice.org 2.0.