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OpenOffice Video: Novel Writing Template

Here’s a quick 5 minute video showing how I use the Extensions and Templates for Open Office Writer:

Get Open Office here, and the extensions I showed are listed on this post Get The Embed Code on Youtube for the Open Office Novel Writing Demo My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-eddd23920e47044b5bc88b788dbb0450}

OpenOffice Extensions, Add-ons and Templates for Writers

Image via Wikipedia Over the past couple of years, OpenOffice seems to have gone from “That Free Office Clone For People Who Can’t Afford MS Office to “Why Pay For Office when I have OpenOffice?” There’s a couple of good reasons for this beyond the price. OpenOffice is multi-platform. You can run it on Windows, [...]

Elegy for Linux

Image by drewish via Flickr Sorry Linux, I have no more use for you. See, Old Bessie, the Coal Fired Pentium finally gave up the ghost. I had been running Crunch Bang Linux, A lightweight Ubuntu Variant, trying to get the last little bit of productivity out of the old workhorse before she died for [...]

Using Open Office to Write a Novel: Quick Links

Image via Wikipedia I’m Gonna Start Working on Byzantine Roads Again: It’s been a while since I seriously tried to develop this site: I overextended myself over the winter and had a few health problems. But I think I’ll Give it another Shot. In the meantime, I’ve been playing with Open Office again. I had [...]

More Linux Goodness: Free Word Processors

Image via Wikipedia So far, the great Linux experiment is going great. I’ve switched from Fedora to PCLinuxOS: The main reason was the native support for my Radeon Card. Thanks, Tasos, for the heads up! I’ve also been playing with a few Word Processing program. I’ve already mentioned Open Office, the full featured MS Office [...]

The $14.99 Laptop for Writers

Image via Wikipedia Much has been made of the $100 one laptop per child project that, if it ever comes to fruition, has the capability to transform the third world. However, did you know you have access to the $14.99 laptop today? It doesn’t look like much, lacking a keyboard and monitor, but it does [...]