OpenOffice.org's tools for creating diagrams are easy to ignore. For one thing, their controls are extremely small. For another, they are pitifully under-documented in the online help, which plods ...

When we hear the word "code," we often assume it's meant for highly technical people. But sometimes, it just means entering simple commands into a program to get a result. In this case, the program is ...

I've been covering chemistry software in my last few articles, so this time, I decided to move to physics and introduce a package called JaxoDraw. In physics, there's a powerful technique for ...