Software: articles and tips
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How to design and print business cards cheaply at home using LibreOffice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYnNTVYRKtY Another video tutorial, this one on how to design and print business cards cheaply at home using LibreOffice Draw and
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Video tutorial – how to maintain a fuel log with mileage calculator in LibreOffice Calc/Excel
Something different I tried recently. A video tutorial on how to maintain a fuel log with mileage calculator in LibreOffice Calc or Excel with simple formulae. Hopefully this provides some good information. This is something I am still working on, especially my voice and recording clarity, so please do leave your feedback on the video.
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GIMP Tutorial – fire animation in pixel art
Yet another video tutorial on GIMP – this time explaining how to create a fire animation for use in 2d pixel sprite based games.
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GIMP tutorial on drawing 2d pixel art bush
Here’s my video on YouTube, showing how you can draw a simple bush in 2d pixel art style in GIMP.
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WordGrinder – a distraction free open source word processor
A long time back, when I was writing a novel, I discovered WordGrinder, a console word processor that’s designed to string prose together without any distraction. In the creator’s own words: WordGrinder is a word processor for processing words. It is not WYSIWYG. It is not point and click. It is not a desktop publisher.…
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Collabora Office – a full fledged LibreOffice port for mobile devices
A while back, I searched for a decent Office suite for opening and editing documents on my iPad and found Collabora Office, a full-fledged port of LibreOffice for Android and iOS / iPadOS. This is one of the few Open Source office suites for mobile devices around and one of the few that are almost…
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Why mobile games are usually so awful
Try installing any random game on your Android phone or iOS device and chances are that the game sucks. More often than not, the game is severely curtailed in its free avatar and requires you to make micro payments to advance further into the game. And most likely the “game currency” cannot be earned enough…
