Posts Tagged ‘Open Source’
Technical Writing – Top 3 Open Source Software You Can Use to Write and Design Technical
© Ugur Akinci I use Adobe FrameMaker and Microsoft Office on a daily basis, and Microsoft Visio, Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrate on an almost-daily basis. These are the tools of the technical writing trade that I wouldn’t do without. I love my software (I really do) and what they can do for me. However,…
Read MoreTechnical Writing – How Wikis will Transform Technical Writers into Information Coordinators
In case you are not too familiar with it, Wiki is a web site that can be built by many authors together. That’s its most basic definition. But “wiki,” which means “quick” in Hawaiian, refers to the application that makes a wiki web site possible as well. wikipedia is the world’s best known wiki but,…
Read MoreOpen Source Software – 10 Great Free Tools of Technical Communication
Are you sick and tired of paying hundreds of dollars for writing and design software that does not work? You may want to give the following open-source programs a try. OpenOffice, the king and queen of office suits. Available for PC, Mac and Linux platforms. (Try NeoOffice if you own a Mac.) Totally free and…
Read MoreOperating Systems – Linux or Windows? Long Live UBUNTU!
© Ugur Akinci Ubuntu is a great Linux Distribution. As I’m writing these words, a major computer wholesaler has decided to ship some of its new models with Linux Operating System. They have selected UBUNTU’s 7.04 “Feisty Fawn” distribution of Linux. (Windows have OS releases or versions like XP or Vista; Linux has “distributions” like…
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