Recently on my Facebook Page, I linked to a site that had a way to link to recipes that you have saved on your computer.

I decided to put together a sample downloadable spreadsheet that you could adapt to your own use, and I’ve included links to recipes on the web and [...]

In response to the Singapore Public Holidays calendar, I’ve also compiled a Malaysian Public Holidays calendar. This was trickier as it had state holidays as well as National holidays. It’s my first go at the Malaysian holidays calendar, so if I get any wrong, please post politely in the comments – it was not intentional.

I [...]

A big thanks to suhaw who has volunteered a 2010 calendar. I wish I had seen it before I had updated mine! So I am hereby placing a link to both:

suhaw’s 2010 calendar with Singapore public holidays
ozlady’s 2010 calendar with Singapore public holidays

January 2010

I understand if you don’t wish to install another piece of software on your computer – or perhaps you have OpenOffice at home and Word or Excel at work and forgot to convert that important file before you emailed it to yourself.

If you have a gmail account, or a google apps account, you can use [...]

A great deal of people using spreadsheets love using keyboard shortcuts.

Here are some selected Excel and Calc default keyboard shortcuts – and the difference in accessing the related functions. Below are some additional shortcut keys that are useful in Calc.

Function
Excel Shortcut
Calc Shortcut

Rearranges the relative or absolute references (for example, A1, $A$1, $A1, A$1) [...]

I had previously posted a link to Go-OO as a lite alternative to OpenOffice, however this app seems to have changed its focus:

Speed
Compatibility with WordPerfect graphics
Compatibility with MS Excel Spreadsheet macros

This is good, however that still leaves an issue for those that don’t want to download the 150Mb file [...]

You may well be here because you need help with OpenOffice, and if that’s the case, then please feel free to drop a comment to let me know what pressing issues you face, however sometimes you need the help of many – and that’s one of the benefits of Open Source Software.

OpenOffice.org Forums [...]

Need OpenOffice on a PC that doesn”t have it installed? Want to carry that and a suite of other useful software on your USB drive so that you can carry it with you?

Check out http://portableapps.com/

Portable OpenOffice on a Stick

It includes Firefox, OpenOffice, Pidgin and a host of other applications that have been adapted [...]

I get really tired of fiddling with Avery Label templates in OpenOffice, and now there is a great resource that has it all done for you.

Check out the OpenOffice.org Label Templates (Asia & Europe) at World Labels.

There are other label templates for other regions as well, so enter above and click [...]

A variation on the original scaling spreadsheet, this spreadsheet has standard deviation, average (mean) as well as grade scaling.

Scaling Factor Spreadsheet

This is a scaling spreadsheet which can be used by teachers to assist with grades – including calculations involving means and standard deviation.

Free downloads are offered without [...]