OpenOffice is a free and open source office application suite available for a number of different operating systems, It supports open document standard (.odt, .ods, etc..) as well as Microsoft Office 1997-2003 formats.

OpenOffice is primarily sponsored by Sun Microsystems, it aims to compete with Microsoft Office and emulate its look and feel where suitable. It can read and write most of the file formats found in Microsoft Office.

It Includes the following components and they are similar to Microsoft office applications which makes easier for most of the users.

	Writer	A Word Processor Offering a comparable range of functions and tools. It also has a builtin Pdf Converter.
	Calc	A spreadsheet similar to Microsoft Excel with a roughly equivalent range of features. Calc provides a number of features not present in Excel, including a system which automatically defines series for graphing, based on the layout of the user’s data.
	Impress	A presentation program similar to Microsoft PowerPoint. It can export presentations to Adobe Flash (SWF) files allowing them to be played on any computer with the Flash player installed. It also includes the ability to create PDF files
	Base	A database program similar to Microsoft Access. Base allows the creation and manipulation of databases, and the building of forms and reports to provide easy access to data for end-users.
	Draw	A vector graphics editor comparable in features to early versions of CorelDRAW
	Maths	A tool for creating and editing mathematical formulae, similar to Microsoft Equation Editor.

Refer to http://www.openoffice.org for more details.

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If you happen to find that the desktop icons are no longer transparent and their labels have colored background them, try the following to get  rid of it and give your desktop a smoother look.

1. Go to System properites(control panel-> System)

2. Then click ADVANCED tab

3. Click on the SETTINGS button located within PERFORMANCE section.

4. In the performance option window Select ADJUST FOR BEST APPEARANCE.

5. Clik OK

if it doesn’t work, try to…

1. Right click desktop

2.Point to arrange icon by

3.Uncheck LOCK WEB ITEMS ON DESKTOP

Jalbum is a free gallery software that makes web albums from your digital images. You can create amizing web gallery within just few clicks.

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How to use:

1.Go to this URL http://in.gallery.yahoo.com/apps/2047/locale/en

2. INSTALL it by clicking “Install Now”

3. OPEN a chat window.

4. Go to action menu and click on “Choose plug-in”

5. Select “Myplugins tab” .

6. Click on the “Start” button next to “IndiChat” plug-in.

Once started type phonetic spellings and IndiChat converts it into an equivalent Unicode in chosen language.

Introducing Yahoo! Messenger 9.0 Beta, the next version of one of most popular IM softwares. This new yahoo messanger has got a new look and feel along with some great new features. Try it Now

KGB Archiver is the compression tool with an unbelievably high compression rate. Unfortunately, in spite of its powerful compression rate, it has high hardware requirements (It recommends processor with 1,5GHz clock and 256MB of RAM as an essential minimum). One of the advantages of KGB Archiver is also AES-256 encryption which is used to encrypt the archives. This is one of the strongest encryptions known for human and moreover it’s an open source program source is available at http://kgbarchiver.net/The bad think about this software is its very slow it takes hours for a compression.