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Dearly Gparted

By Mark on Saturday, February 20th, 2010 | No Comments

I’ve been using “Powerquest Partition Magic” (a non-distructive partitioning program) for sometime now. Here is a great free and opensource tool that replaces P-Magic. Gparted is a non-destructive that pretty much has the look and feel of P-Magic. The only difference I see is P-Magic runs in DOS and Gparted runs on a Linux GIU. [...]

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Find Alternative Software

By Mark on Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 | No Comments

Find opensource alternatives to many popular software titles. There are very few reasons to buy the expensive software when there are so many good free programs out there. Example GIMP as an alternative for Adobe Photoshop $699 and Inkscape for Illustrator $599. Why pay $349 for Adobe Audition when Ardour is free. Many professionals use [...]

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Favorite Free Software

By Mark on Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 | No Comments

Here are my favorite must have free programs: K-Lite Mega- I think contains all of the media CODECs that you may use and some and some you will never use. For Windows. Firefox- Superior web browser with many features like the many extensions that I can’t do without. Windows, Linux and Mac. Open Office- Has [...]

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Extentions for OpenOffice g

By Mark on Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 | No Comments

Until recently I did not know about extensions for OpenOffice the free office suite. Here are some useful and cool extensions I found. Sun PDF Import Extension [Beta] New Template OpenOffice 2 GoogleDoc Writer’s Tools

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GIMP Tutorials

By Mark on Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 | No Comments

Oct 21, 2008 Change Eye Color Bare Basics of GIMP and Brushes/Filters Create an oilpainting from a photo. Making a pencil drawing from a photo. Create Lightsaber Effects

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