Alternatives To Office 365

Like much of commercial software, unless your in a work environment that uses a particular commercial program it may not be necessary to ever buy or use Office 365. There are many alternatives including; LibreOffice – Looks and acts just like MS Office 2004 (I think it was 2004). It has a word-processer called “Writer”….

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Finding Alternative Software

Free software is great, but how do you find it? AlternativeTo Let’s say you want a program that is like Microsoft Visio to create flowcharts and diagrams. Instead of Googling and maybe getting a scam site or something. Go to AlternativeTo.net, search for Visio. One of the best results is Dia a free and opensource…

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Other Software

There is other great software out there that doesn’t cost a penny. Some of my favorites are: 7-Zip is a free and open-source file archiver, a utility used to place groups of files within compressed containers known as “archives”. Examples: .zip, .tar, and .rar. Uses: take several large files and add them to an archive…

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Alternative Audio/Video Programs

Here are some super helpful programs to help you with many of your media related projects. VLC No free software geek should be without this first program. VLC is a free media player that is so much more. It converts audio and video formats. It doesn’t slice and dice but it is an invaluable tool….

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WordPress, .COM or .ORG

WordPress.org is a website that is dedicated to distribution and help with the opensource WordPress content management system which powers millions of websites. My website monyhan.me is powered by the WordPress software which hosted on a server that I control. The responsibility of maintaining the sites front end is all mine. The backend (the hardware)…

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What’s New In WordPress 5.9

WordPress 5.9 is the latest version of the WordPress content management system. It in many ways is the same as the last several versions with the exception the Full Site Editor or FSE. With FSE you can build your entire site using the Gutenburg block editor and all of your great custom blocks, just like…

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WordPress Block Editor

Gutenberg is the reflectively new default editor for WordPress. I guess it came out early last year, or maybe 2020. Since then developers have been all over it, releasing many custom blocks to do operations of all kinds. In the beginning when I first tried Gutenberg it was good but very limiting, but now with…

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Install Chrome OS On Any PC Or Mac

CloudReady, a distribution of Chromium OS designed to be installed on existing computers. Chrome OS Google’s version CloudReady: Home Edition is the free, easy way to transform your old PC or Mac into a high-performing Chrome device. CloudReady is super easy to install. On the free download page go to the “Download USB Maker”. It…

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What is Chrome OS?

Chrome OS is a Gentoo Linux-based operating system designed by Google. It is derived from the free software Chromium OS and uses the Google Chrome web browser as its principal user interface. Unlike Chromium OS, Chrome OS is proprietary software. Google announced the project, based on Ubuntu, in July 2009, conceiving it as an operating…

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Linux Install Detail Instructions

Linux is a Unix-like operating system. The kernal (the base of the OS) was created by Linus Torvalds, a student at the University of Helsinki in 1991. The kernal was adopted for the GNU operating system, so the real name of the OS should be the GNU / Linux Operating System. Since 1991 Linux has…

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