Do you want to See the stars from anywhere - and any-when - on earth Visit Jupiter Discover Uranus Travel to distant galaxies Go into the future and the distant past Celestia might not be the time travel machine of your dreams but it uses physics to determine what the galaxy used to look like tens of millions of years ago... an astronomy rendering program that is completely free and easy to use, and most of all fun "

Do you want to write a novel or report? With this guide you can. LibreOffice is one of the worlds most popular free Office Productivity suites - 70 million people can't be wrong This guide will take you from installation to creating your document. It will help you produce professional looking results without too much effort: Learn how to format your document Write and edit without hassle Illustrate it with ease Export documents to multiple formats And so much more. Use LibreOffice Writer: A Beginners Guide is short, sweet and to the point guide to LibreOffice 4.2."

Do you want to convince buyers, your boss or clients? With this guide you can. LibreOffice is one of the world's most popular free Office Productivity suites - 70 million people can't be wrong This guide will take you from installation to creating your presentation. It will help you produce professional looking results without too much effort: Learn how to design your slides Add pictures, sound and movies Use charts and tables to convince Export presentations to multiple formats And so much more. Use LibreOffice Impress: A Beginners Guide is short, sweet and to the point guide to LibreOffice...

This short and sweet beginners guide on Podio takes you from your first steps to a competent user capable of adding, modifying and developing apps, installing workspaces that can provide a lot of functionality to your organisation, including: Provide a project management solution to your business Develop a sales and lead management workflow Share common business data in a fully functioning intranet. It contains everything you need to develop sophisticated systems that match your business workflow without having to spend a fortune to do it "

LibreOffice Base is the free database solution that provides all power of other desktop database programs with the ability to function as a database client. This short and sweet beginners guide to LibreOffice Base takes you from your first steps to a competent user capable of adding, modifying and developing databases, creating forms, modifying reports and views and carrying out queries: Make custom databases Import data from other applications Use the Form wizard to customise the look and feel of your database And so much more. It contains everything you need to develop sophisticated systems...

This simple, quick and easy guide to the Opera Browser on Windows gives you all the information you need to: Go to pages on the internet Use search engines Read the news Set up an Email account Create a blog Plus information on how to use Opera's features to speed up your internet browsing, browse the internet safely and privately, and so much more. Targeted at new users, Use Opera is the fast way to learn how to browse the internet with Opera."

LibreOffice Calc provides all power of expensive commercial programs without the cost. This short and sweet beginner's guide to LibreOffice Calc takes you from your first steps to a competent user capable of adding, modifying and developing spreadsheets, doing analysis, creating formulas and charts. Calc can provide Sophisticated analysis tools Easy to use interface Powerful chart, image, and drawing handling Beautiful looking spreadsheets The book contains everything you need to produce personal and business spreadsheets quickly and with the minimum of effort."

Use Scribus is full of tutorials that will teach you how to use Scribus to produce professional looking documents very quickly. It takes you from beginning stages - such as inserting text into a blank document - to advanced layout features. It teaches you what you need to use a free desk top publishing program to make: Books Magazines Leaflets Marketing Material And almost any other document. It's a fully powered DTP system that rivals professional (and really expensive) software packages. Use Scribus will teach you how to get the most out of it."

While there are expensive and complicated programs available for Project Management you can do everything you need with some free alternatives. This book shows you how to use ProjectLibre to: Record Tasks and assign employees to them Control and report on project budgets Produce Gantt, Task Usage, Resource Usage, Network diagrams, WBS, and other diagrams Use Baselines to show project progress And much more. Included in the book are bonus chapters showing you a simple and free timesheet management package as well as SkillBase - a way of recording your organisations skills and then searching...

FreeMind is a free, open source Mind Mapping tool which allows you to: Create Mind Maps while brainstorming Produce great looking documentation Break down tasks Manage procedures, office documentation, and other files This quick and dirty guide will teach you everything you need to install FreeMind, create Mind Maps, make them look good and use them in your reports and documentation."