I don’t know why, but, occasionally, people may have to do minimal or even considerable statistical calculations using Calc, the OpenOffice.org’s spreadsheet part of the Office Productivity Suite. Although, I wouldn’t recommend doing so since there are other, better software packages to complete simple and complex statistical analyses, such as R, a statistical...
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Image via Wikipedia <Update> Soon after I hit the PUBLISH button, I received via email, the OpenOffice.org newsletter, with an extensive list of openoffice.org related blogs.</Update> Although there is an abundance of information available at the official openoffice.org site regarding the usability and how to make openoffice.org, the free open productivity suite, work better for your...
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Before After Conclusion A happy Mac and an even happier mac user.  More details in this post I Powered by ScribeFire.
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Ok, since the latest scare regarding the iphone being hijacked by a series of invisible text messages, the update to version 3.0.1 was mandatory. Apparently, malicious code could be sent to the iphone via text messages, and all the rightful owner sees is a short message with a white square. More details in this...
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Update: A comment by a reader of the daily blah blah and a post by security expert Bruce Schneier that anyone should read. I believe that they present the same point: no matter what security measures schools take, in the end it is the school community that will solve the problem of...
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After days and months in the making, the daily blah blah blog has finally moved to its own hosted site care of bluehost. While carefully preserving the links and content and comments, the new site will offer more capabalities while preserving the style of the daily blah blah. The trip from wordpress.com station to...
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As the year 2008 is about to depart (it has already departed in several parts of the globe), I leave you with a few free apps for the iphone, probably the coolest new gadget of the year. All of them are free apps and can be downloaded via itunes and the app store. 1....
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It hit the net this morning for immediate download and install. It’s iPhone’s newer firmware version 2.2. It still missing a few things (copy-paste, Greek character input), but still worthy the trouble to download 240+ MB. I have already done so. I. Powered by ScribeFire. Related articles by Zemanta iPhone firmware 2.2 coming on November 21st?
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I was a bit quick with my tapping the iPhone and the post was published without text. Oops!! Time for me to flog myself and repeat: I will be more careful when I post. I will be more careful when I post. I will be more …
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First, I must say that the following list of iphone apps may not appeal to everyone, but that is to be expected. Second, they are all free apps (as in free beer, $0.00 cost), since there are enough free gems floating around. Of course, there are enhanced for-fee versions etc, but I...
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