I previously wrote about LibreOffice as a good alternative for Microsoft Office 2013. Today, I want to share a few tips to make the open-source office suite more productive, compatible and more user-friendly with Microsoft Office. Chances are that if you switched to LibreOffice, you’ll soon come across a Microsoft Office document, spreadsheet or presentation from someone who is likely [...]
Stardock ModernMix changes the way we interact with Windows 8 apps by bringing them to the Desktop in the traditional windowed environment. As you may already have experienced the new Windows 8 apps (also often referred to as “Modern apps”, “Windows Store Apps” or “Metro style apps”) only run full-screen or snapped on either side of the [...]
It’s been a few weeks since the release of Office 2013 and the response is somewhat mixed because Microsoft is trying something new, that is, a subscription-based model with Office 365 to get access to one of the most popular office suite of applications in the world, instead of continue licensing the software with the same [...]
When I heard about BlueStacks back in 2011, it was just amazing for the first time being able to run apps only available for Android in Windows. Now the emulator company from Silicon Valley is back with a new version that is optimized specifically for the recently launched Microsoft Surface Pro, bringing over 750,000 new apps to the [...]
For users wanting to enjoy Android OS and apps on Windows, options were limited. The only good stable alternative until recently was Bluestack, but that is about to change with WindowsAndroid. The guys at Socketeq successfully made it possible to natively run Google’s mobile OS into the Windows kernel. This means that now Android can run inside of [...]
It was all a misunderstanding. Many people were happy (me included) to hear the news yesterday that Adobe was offering CS2 downloads for free — that still true today, but not in the way we all thought it was–. According to a new article at The Windows Club, we all heard it wrong says Dov [...]
If you have some image editing to do for work or school, today may just be your lucky day as Adobe is letting users download the full version of Creative Suite 2 for free. The bundled includes Photoshop CS2, Illustrator 2, Premiere Pro 2, and InDesign 2 among other products. Keep in mind that this [...]
Keeping your tasks organized may just be one of the most difficult things to do, and when it comes to task list manager applications, most of them don’t do a pretty good job. Yeah, you can use a notepad, but how long will it takes before it gets clutter and impossible to manage? This is [...]
StartW8 for Windows 8: Since Microsoft decided to remove for good the Start menu from its operating system, users have looked for ways to re-enable this iconic menu, but because there isn’t a way within Windows 8 to bring it back, many developers took upon themselves to create alternative replacements; now we have an array of Start menus [...]
As you know Windows 8 introduces a radical different menu called Start screen that takes full advantage of the new Windows 8 UI – formerly known as Metro –, with live tiles that represent applications and brings forward important live update information about what is going on on each app, that replaces the traditional Start menu and the [...]