Tag: Office & Business Tools reviews

ActivePresenter Free is a capable screen recorder with a lot of potential applications. At a minimum you might set it up to record a fixed area, an application window or the entire display. It’ll then record what’s happening at a click, before exporting the results to images (JPEG, PNG) or video (WMV, AVI, MPEG4, WebM). […]

If you’re the kind of person who runs with multiple tools and services running alongside regular apps, switching between them can becoming quickly annoying as windows overlap and you struggle to find enough screen space to house them all. A second display can help, of course, but what if you’re looking to group related items […]

SoftMaker FreeOffice is a free Microsoft Office-compatible productivity suite. The package includes a word processor (TextMaker), spreadsheet (PlanMaker) and presentation tool (SoftMaker), and each of these can open both the old-style and Office 2021/365 files for their equivalent Microsoft application (DOC and DOCX/ DOCM/ DOTX/ DOTM, XLS and XLSX, PPT and PPTX, and so on). And […]

Being an entrepreneur is most people’s dream. Getting started and organised makes it tough to launch your own business. It’s made worse when you try and work with potential business partners, long distance. How do we then ensure we can work effectively together? There are many tools becoming available for us to be able to […]

These days, you can’t simply rely on a single note-taking app on your computer to provide all your needs. Any note-taking tool worth its salt works on a wide range of devices and platforms, synchronising your notes effortlessly via the cloud to ensure you have access to those notes wherever you happen to be. The […]

When managing a project, the ability to communicate effectively with your team, especially during such remote and technologically dependent times, is absolute paramount. We recently covered a few different office productivity and messaging apps such as Slack, which is an easy intra-company communication tool. But there has been one product from a small little company […]

GnuCash is personal and small-business financial-accounting software, freely licensed under the GNU GPL and available for GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Designed to be easy to use, yet powerful and flexible, GnuCash allows you to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. As quick and intuitive to use as a chequebook […]

When the need arises to conduct remote meetings and video conferences, you really need to consider how many people are going to be involved before choosing which service you’re going to use. Something that immediately stands Zoom in very good stead is the fact that even with a free account there is support for up […]

LibreOffice has long since moved on from being an offshoot of the OpenOffice project. It’s now the go-to alternative to Microsoft Office, enjoying regular development and a constant tweaking to keep it up to date, stable and secure. While LibreOffice lacks the slick presentation of rival Windows freebie Kingsoft Office Suite Free and its Office-inspired […]

Freeplane is a free and open source application for organising, visualising and sharing information. The program is a redesigned version of FreeMind, and can similarly be used to create mindmaps, although with more features and functionality. You can use Freeplane to build regular, static mindmaps, simple charts and diagrams which structure information. At its simplest […]