Archive for March, 2009

March 30th, 2009

Clip Art of the Week: Boobaloo’s Onion + OCAL10K Exceeded + OCAL 0.19 Release

This is a really big week for the Open Clip Art Library! To start things off, last week we crossed the 10,000 file upload with the clip art of the week by Boobaloo:

Also, this entire last month the Open Clip Art Library celebrated its 5th birthday! We exceeded the 10,000 file upload mark last week [...]

March 30th, 2009

Wedding Labels for Free in Fillable PDF

Are you stumped for ideas on your wedding labels? Worry no more! We’re offering free fillable Wedding labels in PDF label templates for U.S. letter-size label sheets. Wedding CD labels, mailing labels, wine labels, Monogram Sticker and more! Look below for links to download these free label templates.

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March 27th, 2009

Linux Puzzle Games

There are Linux games for every taste: first person shooters, board and arcade games, strategy games. But if you prefer to train your intellectual skills instead of blasting monsters or conquering the world, there are a few high-quality puzzle games, too. In this article we will take a look at some of the best puzzle games for Linux.

March 25th, 2009

Spruce Up KDE With All the Productivity Tools You’ll Ever Need

There’s no question computers make our lives easier, especially with all the productivity tools available today. If you use the KDE desktop, then you may already know that there are many wonderful productivity applications designed especially for KDE. Let’s take a look at how some of these apps can help you streamline your work and [...]

March 24th, 2009

Fifty Business Card Inspirations

What does your business card look like? If you’re like the majority of people in business, your card is flat, built from templates at Vistaprint or from some other print shop, and useful only to pick food out of your teeth at best. At worst, your card will end up in a basket full of [...]

March 23rd, 2009

Design Wine Labels in Adobe Illustrator

Blank labels for Wine Bottles on US letter size paper are available from WordLabel.com with a permanent acrylic adhesive backing and being printable by every day laser and inkjet printers. Let’s take a look at designing our own Wine Label in Adobe Illustrator.

March 20th, 2009

Clip Art of the Week: Papapishu’s Junk Ship and Wikimedia Clips

Last week’s featured work focused on minimalism. This week’s featured Clip Art of the Week comes from Papapishu. He has taken the approach to find old pages from books that are in the public domain from Wikimedia Commons, extracts the clip art, and then converts them into vector graphics. The results are quite amazing:

The original [...]

March 19th, 2009

Must-Have Free Open Source Tools for Freelancers

As a freelancer, you don’t have to fork over expensive commercial software: there are plenty high-quality open source applications and utilities that can help you to run your daily business smoothly. Even if you are new to open source, you are probably already familiar with the usual suspects such as OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox, and Thunderbird. But there are quite a few other useful applications that deserve a place in your freelancer toolbox.

March 18th, 2009

Moving to Linux: slow-go or rip-and-replace?

Lots of governments, businesses and individuals are turning to Free Open Source Software (FOSS) during the global recession, according to a recently-released study. But how do you go about it? Do you stick a toe in the water, or dive in head-first to your new FOSS computing environment?
This article will help you think about the [...]

March 17th, 2009

Quick Business Cards in Openoffice.org & Template Download

To follow this how-to, open the blank business card template. This template is standard size business card 3.5″ x 2″ and you can use our WL-OL244 to print it.