Free Software For Dummies by Gurdy Leete
Find great programs for Windows(r), Mac OS(r) X, or Linux(r) Write reports, make presentations, build Web pages, fix photos, and more - free! Why spend a fortune on software when some of the best programs are free? This cool guide will set you free with step-by-step instructions for finding, downloading and using the OpenOffice.org productivity suite, Firefox and Thunderbird for safer surfing and e-mail, the GIMP image editor, Blender for 3D animation, iPodder for catching podcasts, high quality children's educational software, and more. Discover how to Locate the best free software Install and use more than 20 programs Record and edit sound with Audacity Use Skype free Internet phone and conferencing Find cool game software
on-the-mark descriptions of how to get started using the basic features in much of this [free] software(Chicago Tribune, July 24, 2005)
Mary Leete is a co-author of OpenOffice.org For Dummies and a contributing author to 50 Fast Flash Techniques. She discovered the cool world of free software several years ago when her husband, Gurdy, suddenly went from spending a fortune on software every year, to spending nothing! This caught her attention and she has ever since been an enthusiastic supporter and user of free software. Mary spent many years working as a computer programmer, so she appreciates the looking under the hood feature that free software affords (although she has never looked under its hood herself). Mary is currently in awe of free software's recent meteoric rise, with its new polished and stable versions that are now as good as, and often better than, proprietary software, and she hopes that this book will further the cause of the Free Software movement, whose basis lies in the principle of giving.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780764595790 |
| ISBN 10 | 0764595792 |
| Title | Free Software For Dummies |
| Author | Gurdy Leete |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | John Wiley & Sons Inc |
| Year published | 2005-07-08 |
| Number of pages | 428 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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