Carputers News and Computer Tips

During their recent Load and Help campaign, SoftMaker Software GmbH offered SoftMaker Office 2008 for Windows and Linux as a free download. 

If you missed this campaign, here’s another chance to get SoftMaker Office 2008 for free.  The German magazine Stern offers it on their website.  Click here for the translated download and registration page.  You have to provide them with a valid email address to get the registration code.

We’ve blogged about this office suite before.  It has also been ”rebadged” as Ashampoo Office 2008.

Besides its excellent compatibility with Microsoft Office, the other neat feature about the Windows version of this suite is that once you install it on a host computer it creates a start menu entry that allows you to copy your installation to a USB flash drive.

Cameron Chapman (who is one of our favorite writers about things online) recently wrote an outstanding article for the Webdesigner Depot website entitled How to Find Anything Online: Become an Internet Research Expert.  He notes:

…with the Internet, almost anything you could ever want to know is at your fingertips. You just have to learn how to access it.

We agree wholeheartedly and have found this to be the case.  We blogged three years ago this month about the American Library Association’s Best Free Reference Web Sites. 

Mr. Ms. Chapman’s article gives tips and sites that, while they will not make you an immediate expert at research, will enable you to expand and practice your search technique.  It is a definite keeper!