Basics of Computer and Information Technology

In order to create a launcher for a particular OpenOffice application, or if you wish to run one from a terminal in Linux , you will need t...

Earlier this month Bloody Computer! reached its third anniversary, so I decided that I should mark the event by sharing a few statistics, a...

I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04, and found that pressing backspace no longer takes me to the previous page in Firefox. Thankfully, there i...

Apologies to my regular readers for not having posted anything in the last month or so. I have been busy with other matters, but I am glad t...

When copying charts into a word processor, whether in Microsoft Office from Excel to Word or in openoffice.org from Calc to Writer , the so...

While most web addresses on sites are clickable links, you will have noticed that some are just text that you have to copy and paste into th...

Having switched to Linux a while ago, I finally have settled on a variety of Internet applications that do what I want. I listed a variety ...