Click on the picture above to get this really cool Dracula to colour in!

Some downloads in preparation for the Halloween weekend. Get your freak on and put those finishing touches on your Halloween projects with the following downloads.

  1. Happy Halloween Address Labels – from the Template Repository. I thought they were really cute! These could also be re-purposed into name stickers in case you want to name your guests at your party.
  2. Halloween Pumpkin Impress Powerpoint Template – black background with a cool pumpkin for any presentations or slide shows you want to put together for your freak-night!
  3. Halloween Colouring pages – OK, so these are PDFs, not odf documents, but they are really cool and good for kids… just in case they get rained in over the Halloween weekend.
  4. Freaky fonts for your Halloween documents. Try Fontenstein or the Halloween category on SearchFREEFonts.com.
  5. Spooky spectres are a must for your Halloween projects and you can download pictures of these from HalloweenClipart.com, Classroom Clipart and FreeDigitalPhotos.net

    I’m always on the hunt for good open source resources, and OpenDisc is a fantastic one. Basically it’s a site where you can download an ISO disc image and burn it on a CD. It is aimed largely at the education market – students and teachers on a budget, however anyone can download their disc images, and burn a CD.

    Note that it supports Windows only.

    You do get a lot in the download, with many programs available for installation (you do not have to install them all). If you are more interested in having OOo on a thumb drive / memory stick (USB drive), then try the portable OpenOffice.org page.

    Applications included with this ISO image at the time of this post are as follows:

    • Design – Blender, Dia, The Gimp, Inkscape, Nvu, Scribus, Tuxpaint.
    • Games – The Battle for Wesnoth, Enigma, Neverball, Sokoban YASC.
    • Internet – Azureus, Firefox, HTTrack, Pidgin, FileZilla, RSSOwl, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, TightVNC, WinSCP.
    • Multimedia – Audacity, Celestia, Really Slick Screensavers, Stellarium, Sumatra PDF, VLC media player.
    • Productivity – GnuCash, MoinMoin, Notepad2, OpenOffice.org, PDFCreator.
    • Utilities – 7-Zip, Abakt, Clamwin, GTK+, HealthMonitor, TrueCrypt, Workrave.

    What a fantastic resource!

    Get the ISO file at this link, and visit the OpenDisc homepage for updates.

    This is my first attempt at a video tutorial that will show you how to create a basic book layout using Page Styles. Any positive suggestions for improvements are appreciated – please contribute in the comments section.

    A template is available for download – see the information below.

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