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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 [...]
Ad Injection plugin for WordPress
Here is my free Ad Injection plugin for WordPress. I've been using it for a while now on a number of websites, so I know it works for me, but it would be great to get some feedback on whether it works for you. Ad Injection injects any kind of advert (e.g. Google AdSense, Amazon Associates, ClickBank, TradeDoubler, etc) into the existing [...]
MacBook Pro 13 inch – what’s in the box?
It is over seven months since I bought my 2010 version of the MacBook Pro 13 inch. Maybe it is time to put up the photos of what was in the box! Unlike other computer manufacturers who throw everything into plain brown cardboard, Apple always have an elaborately designed box. Their idea of user experience extends to the packaging. The outside [...]
Non–blocking Facebook and Twitter buttons
On all the posts on this blog (like on most other websites you probably visit) you’ll see buttons to ‘Like’ a post (from Facebook) and to ‘Tweet’ about a post (from Twitter or TweetMeme). These buttons are very popular but if you use the iframe versions of the buttons (which are easy to install) you may have noticed a problem. If [...]
Fixes for YouTube annoyances
YouTube is great; apart from a small list of annoyances. But fortunately there are solutions to these problems. Videos with wrong aspect ratio A video you are trying to watch is stretched or squashed Your own video has the wrong aspect ratio The video changes resolution when you select full screen Video has [...]
2011 staff holiday planner
I had a request to create an Excel staff holiday planner in addition to my usual one page calendars that you’ll find on this site. The Excel staff holiday calendar for 2011 can be used to note down holidays, training days, sick days, and home/off-site time at your company. Here’s an example of what it looks like with some information filled [...]
