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 ...

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 ...

I've never been someone who enjoys making diagrams. It's not that there aren't good diagramming and visualization tools out there — it's that I get caught up in the details. I'd spend more time ...