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 ...

Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. ProcessOn is a web-based online drawing tool that gives ...

Creating diagrams with coding agents like Claude Code can be a nuanced process, as these systems are primarily designed for text-based tasks. Cole Medin demonstrates how to address this challenge by ...

When Georg Petschnigg explains something, he doesn't just talk. He draws. And when he does, he makes tablets look every bit as transformative as we always hoped they would be. Petschnigg is a ...

Sometimes, when I want to wire up a few guitar pedals and connect them to my iPad, maybe via a mixer or audio interface, I make a diagram before I plug everything in. But the trouble with drawing a ...