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Invoice Journal is a free web application that tries to make the process of invoicing as easy and as accessible as possible.

The monolithic standard of office software these days is Microsoft Office - particularly Word, Powerpoint, Excel, and Outlook/Entourage. Only a brave few venture out and try something different.

Google has been rolling out offline functionality for Google Docs giving you access to your files in the absence of an internet connection.

PDF Download 2.0 Beta is a new beta add-on for Firefox 2 and 3 which allows you to quickly and easily download any web page in .pdf format

Zindus is a Thunderbird Add-on which synchronises your Thunderbird Address Book with contacts in your Gmail/ GApps Account and is very handy for regular users of both.

We think that Acrobat Reader is an excellent peice of software that gets the job done. However, many users complain that it is too heavy on system resources, especially when it comes to older machines which are already struggling under the weight of numerous programs. If you come under that heading and need [...]

The beta version of Openoffice 3.0 became available for download this morning and the results so far look promising. The current version, Openoffice 2.4, is already a feature packed and robust alternative to Microsoft Office, but the team seems to have done even better this time.
The new features are numerous, and you can see [...]

Just when you thought that the introduction of IMAP for Google Apps couldn’t make it easier to migrate (using drag and drop in an email client), the Google Apps team have now just released a small application to make it even easier.
Aptly named the Google Email Uploader, it will automatically upload all of your emails [...]

 
Let’s get this clear from the start, I’m not suggesting for a second that you’re going to sell your laptop and merrily conduct your business from nothing but your phone. However, if you’re on the go and the thought of carrying your laptop and accessories around sounds like a pain, can your phone take the [...]

Presentations are an excellent way to get your point across. If you want to put some on your website for the whole world to see, here’s how.

If you are a Google user as well as a fan of Outlook, you will be pleased to know that you can sync your Google Calendar with your Outlook Calendar.

You don’t have time to find and install the software. You are not at the office where all of your programs and settings are tuned to your liking. But you need to convert your document from .pdf to word or vice versa. Doing it for free would also be a bonus.

An excellent set of free, portable, open source tools are available if you need to access your work on the move.  All you need is a portable storage drive (e.g. a USB Stick) and a computer to connect it to. You might recognise these programs, but the ony difference here is that they run [...]

Free PDF to WORD Converter is a helpful little tool for converting your .pdf files into .doc format. The whole point of a .pdf is that it makes a document un-editable, handy for important stuff such as contracts or invoices.

Common questions we get are from users who want get more out of their excel/ spreadsheet application.

Many businesses make use of a Microsoft Exchange Server to manage their emails and files. True to its name, it requires a server, which is essentially a hard disk which runs all of the office applications and filters them down to each user on their computers. For example, it will collect all emails [...]

Openoffice is a robust, open source alternative to Microsoft Office and, of course, you can even download it for free.
The suite covers all of the the Microsoft Office bases and will give you Writer (MS Word), Math, Impress (MS Powerpoint), Draw, Calc (Excel) and Base (MS Access).