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Monthly Excel planner
I’ve previously produced a weekly planner Excel spreadsheet, but recently I’ve needed to use a monthly planner with hourly time slots. It is a simple one page monthly planner. The times from 6am-1am are along the top, and the days of the month from 1-31 are down the side. For the months with 28, 29, or 30 days long you can just cross out or [...]
2013 Staff holiday planner spreadsheet
At the time of writing it nearing the end of 2011 so some of you may be searching for my previous staff holiday planner for 2012. If you are planning very far ahead (or if you are reading this in 2012/2013) you might want my 2013 staff planner. This is my latest free spreadsheet that can help you track staff holidays, training, sick days and [...]
How to edit PDF files for free
I had a PDF form which I needed to fill in. The form was not editable, but I still wanted some way to fill in the fields on the computer rather than having to print it out and fill it in by hand. A quick search shows that there are many other people wanting to do the same thing, but there aren’t many solutions that actually work. Many of the [...]
2012 Excel week numbers calendar
We are nearly half way through 2011 so you might have already started planning for 2012. This easy to read one page Excel calendar has the whole of 2012 on one page, with a good sized box for each day of the week – each day has five free cells for your use. It has the week numbers down the side – the week numbers are written according to [...]
Amazon CloudFront and S3 maximum cost
When using utility computing platforms such as Amazon CloudFront, S3, EC2, or similar platforms from other companies, you are charged according to how much usage you or other people make of the files and services you publicly expose. If you configure your files or services to be private only to you then you can easily control the cost. But when [...]
2012 staff holiday planning spreadsheet
This staff holiday planning spreadsheet is a 2012 updated version of my 2011 staff holiday planner. This time the formulas for calculating the remaining holiday are in the default sheet - if you don’t need them you can just delete the columns. As before the calendar planner shows the whole year left to right, with employee name down the [...]
NatAmi ‘Native Amiga’ interview
Peter Kaltstein, Software Developer, talks to reviewmylife about the NatAmi project and the Amiga computer. 1. What is the NatAmi project? NatAmi stands for Native Amiga and is a reimplementation of the former Commodore Amiga design, aiming at more performance while still keeping low level compatibility. The original concepts are strongly [...]
Three point estimation spreadsheet
If you are trying to make a three point estimation spreadsheet for Excel but are struggling with the formulas, then this free Excel download that I’ve made may help you. It has fields set up for entering data such as the task name, person responsible, and then the best, worst, and most likely estimates. You can also enter a contingency [...]
2012 One Page Excel Calendar
At the time I write this 2010 is nearly over, which means that 2012 is just over a year away. If you are planning far in advance then you might appreciate this free downloadable 2012 one page Excel calendar. If 2012 is too far ahead then I have a 2011 one page excel calendar available for download as well. Just like in previous years this [...]
2011 monthly calendar for Excel
Here is a free monthly calendar for 2011. You can download it as a XLS spreadsheet for Excel, Open Office, or whatever spreadsheet application you use. I’ve previously produced a one page calendar for 2011, but I had a request to produce a month by month version, with each month on a separate tab. Here is what September 2011 looks [...]
