Tutorials

Conecta Research provides free first level support and assistance through email, mailing list and the SourceForge services for submitting bugs and feature requests. The services are available here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/everydesk/support

For customers that prefer a private email contact, we only ask for a pre-registration request, indicating the name of the institution, a contact point and the actual or expected number of EveryDesk instances. You will be assigned a unique customer code, that will simplify request tracking and issue resolution. Large scale customers can request a private issue tracker, that will give also an history of solutions; for more information, contact us at everydesk@conecta.co.uk

In this page we will provide some general links of interest as a first starting point in exploring EveryDesk, and a set of tutorial videos on common aspects of system use and maintenance.

First of all: the EveryDesk system includes the excellent Oracle OpenOffice productivity suite, that includes a word processing module, a spreadsheets, a presentations and a drawing program. A very good introduction on the use of OpenOffice is the OOoAuthor’s Guides for OpenOffice, that provides full coverage of all the functionalities of the suite.

The default internet browser is Firefox, both for its stability and its excellent compatibility with a wide range of complex websites. A good overall guide to Firefox can be found at FLOSSmanuals.A second browser, called Google Chromium is also installed; it is extremely fast and compact, and is thus an appropriate choice for very limited or old hardware. An introduction to Chromium can be found here.

The graphic and image manipulation tool included in EveryDesk is called GIMP, and is a complete and powerful image and paint program for processing and manipulating photos, images, graphic art. A document explaining some of its features is available here.

An overall introduction to Open Source software and its multiple aspect can be found in our EU guide on open source software, where you will also find a catalogue of useful applications for small and medium enterprises as well as public administrations.

Video tutorials:

An introduction to the EveryDesk system

Changing the default language