Research Catalog

Title

Moving to free software / Marcel Gagné.

Author

Gagné, Marcel

Publication

Upper Saddle River, NJ : Addison-Wesley, c2007.

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Details

Description

xvii, 378 p. : ill.; 24 cm. +

Subject

• Shareware (Computer software)
• Open source software

Genre/Form

DVD-ROMs

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

System Details (note)

• System requirements for accompanying DVD-ROM: Windows 98, 2000, 2003 or XP.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Acknowledgments xviiChapter 1: Introduction to Free Software 1 Really Free? 2 All You Need Is ... 2 About the Money ... 3 Has Marcel Gone Mad? 4 Transitional Software 4 Installing Programs 6 Finding Even More Free Software 7 What About Support? 8 Linux! The Ultimate Free Software 9 Full Steam Ahead 10 Resources 11 Chapter 2: Surfing the Web with Firefox 13 Mozilla versus Firefox 14 Addicted to News: Firefox Does RSS 22 Extending Firefox 24 Resources 28 Chapter 3: Thunderbird: A Safer Email Client 29 Thunderbird 30 Attached to You ... 39 No More Junk Mail! 41 Revisiting RSS 43 Resources 44 Chapter 4: Gaim: Multiprotocol Instant Messaging, and IRC, Too! 45 Why Jabber? 46 Instant Messaging with Gaim 46 IRC: Internet Relay Chat 54 Using Gaim for IRC 54 Resources 59 Chapter 5: Skype: Free Long Distance, Anyone? 61 Creating a Skype Account 62 "Is this thing working?" Testing Your Connection 65 Search Me! Adding Friends to Your Contact List 66 Come Here, Watson! Making Calls on Skype 69 SkypeOut and SkypeIn 72 Face to Face with Skype: Using a Webcam 73 Getting a Little Privacy 75 Resources 76 Chapter 6: Creating Documents with OpenOffice.org Writer 77 OpenOffice.org Writer 78 Write Now! 80 Help! 85 To Word or Not to Word? 86 Personalizing Your Environment 87 A Wizard of Words 90 Navigating Style 91 Speaking of Document Elements ... 94 More! Give Me More! 95 Resources 96 Chapter 7: Using OpenOffice.org Calc for Spreadsheets 97 Starting a New Spreadsheet and Entering Data 98 Magical Totals 104 Nice, Colorful, Impressive, and Dynamic Graphs 105 Final Touches 108 Resources 109 Chapter 8: Presentations with OpenOffice.org Impress 111 Getting Ready to Impress 112 Instant Web Presentations 122 How About a Little Flash? Shocking! 126 Extra! Extra! 126 Resources 127 Chapter 9: Personal Databases: OpenOffice.org Base 129 The Beginning: Creating a New Database 130 Setting the Table 134 Creating Mailing Labels 140 Further Exploring 145 Resources 145 Chapter 10: CDex: An All-Purpose CD Ripper and Audio Converter 147 Intermezzo: Digital Audio Formats 148 Introducing CDex 148 Ripping Music to Your PC 151 Ripping Just a Little 153 Simple Music Player 154 Resources 155 Chapter 11: Audio Magic with Audacity 157 Installation Notes 158 Touring Audacity's Interface 158 Let's Record Something 159 Editing Audio 162 Fade to Special Effects 163 Creating Podcasts with Audacity 164 Resources 166 Chapter 12: The Juice: A Podcast Aggregator 167 The Juice on the Juice 168 Running on Automatic 175 Cleaning Up 177 Locating More Podcasts 178 Resources 178 Chapter 13: Nvu: A Graphical Web Site Design Tool 179 Installation Notes 180 Saving Your Work 185 Creating Subsequent Pages 187 Publishing Your Web Site 191 It's a Beautiful Thing 195 Resources 195 Chapter 14: Inkscape: A Vector Drawing Program 197 A Friendly Introduction 198 Drawing Tools 202 Fill and Stroke Genius 210 Drawing Tools, Part Deux 214 The Full Meal Deal 219 Saving Your Work 220 Resources 221 Chapter 15: Digital Art with.

ISBN

0321423437 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006029712

OCLC

• 71322196
• SCSB-10389583

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library