OpenOffice.org Blog provides an interesting tutorial on creating data entry forms from scratch, and saving them as PDF files. All you need is OpenOffice.org Writer.

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Screencasts are quite popular and useful tool, especially when you want to present how exactly works some application, and how to use it. Screencasts can be saved as video files, and published on YouTube and other video-hosting websites. However, there are also tools which enable us to create screecasts stored in GIF files.

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If you are dealing with 3D graphics, it may be useful to know, that there is not only Blender available for Linux users. Some other application are also provided. OSGEdit is one of them.

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If you are a blogger, you probably have a long list of things you want to comment in the coming days, some useful links you’ve found in the internet, and photos / audio files / videos. It is a great idea to keep it in the single place, using application who organizes these notes and links.

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If you want to publish your own e-zine, or you are a student who wants to prepare presentation or a report, then you should definitely try out Wyneken. It is a content-oriented text processor that makes your life as a student easier by allowing you to create and manage digital notebooks.

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It isn’t a good idea to publish podcast as they were recorded, without any mastering work. On the other hand, dealing with many files, and performing the same tasks many times can be frustrating. In this situation one should definitely use gnormalize.

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TaskJuggler is a modern and powerful project management tool. It covers the complete spectrum of project management tasks from the first idea to the completion of the project. It assists you during project scoping, resource assignment, cost and revenue planing, risk and communication management.

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Social Networks Visualiser (SocNetV) is an Social Networks Analysis tool for Linux, Mac and Windows written in Qt4. It is a graphical application designed to be an easy tool for Social Networks Analysis and Visualisation. With it, you can load and visualise networks of various formats (GraphViz, Adjacency, Pajek, etc), and/or visually create and modify a network using your mouse.

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cb2Bib is another tool useful mainly for scientists, but it is also usable for students and all users who deal with large amounts of digitized data. It is a tool for rapidly extracting bibliographic references from email alerts, journal web pages, and PDF files. It facilitates the capture of single references from unformatted and non standard sources.

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Today most of the data we receive and process is digitized and supplied as files, spreadsheets, and other forms of computer data. However, if we want to make use of the maps, or some old graphs, we are in trouble.

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