Good day I am me and I see funny side of things and others see it too. "What to do" and "How to do" and telling others are the main characteristics of the human species! Mercifully, the other inhabitants of this planet are spared these problematic issue and live happily. Take marketing for example, the question that arises first is, "Who on earth markets a free product?" The answer, "Gnumeric, OpenOffice.org and a number of others"
But why? If I am speaking to a potential target' and if he is not getting off at the next train station, bus station, etc. or until he does, I can go on and on... until my jaws tell my mind (and the poor targets' brain tells his ears), "find a way to stop the guy" . And in the silence that follows on site and continues on when I reach home and continues on and on for a number of years, the question pops up again and again, "Why do I use OpenOfiice.org? and free software?" The answer for a number of years was, "It is free" and a number of weird things like, "how do I make money?" Point 1. It is not really free - what about down loads and internet time and the hours and hours and hours of figuring out what to do and the sudden panics when the program informs so very casually, "Do you want to recover your files?" - Huh? I have gone through "What happened!... Mommy!..." so many times. But then there was always this friendly neighbourhood "HELP" websites run by volunteers sitting only a few million miles away asking me to go through FAQs. But after all that NOW, I realize, "Hey these guys have me a inventions that I rate as next greatest by Mankind after the lever". The ancient inventor is supposed to have said, "give me a lever and a place for it to rest, I will move the Earth"! Today, anybody can say, "give me OpenOffice.org like tools and parking space, I can shift global paradigms" (me to me "don't exaggerate". me to me, "look at this creation of mine - wow and wow!) I have developed a few very useful and original templates in the Education category in OpenOffice.org and for Libre Office users too. I and a number of Calc users think they are mind boggling. I would very much like your assistance to pass it on to young users. It will help them to bring out great potential within themselves and their friends. In short, marketing a free product pays for itself - If you cannot convert the pay into "money" you are short of creativity. The target wants a hole in the wall, trying to sell your drill bits and telling them it can do a better job is outdated (miserably). Rather, I have done this chum and am I the IT. What about you, you said you had a problem? Heh Heh! kedarnath jonnalagadda Imagine what the UN can do with analysis of their data like this with ordinary Calc? http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/3-D-HIGHER-DIMENSION-SPREADSHEETS-Diverse-Applications Zee File Management System with Calc http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/9022 This is a "study example and do it yourself" template to manage files on your computer. The example is for PDF files but with a little study and practice, nothing can stop you to use it for files, folders, or even system files of any type. A pre-requisite to use is learning and using the freeware BulkFileChanger© from http://www.nirsoft.net/ The features of the Calc Interface system are (1) Safe Management of your files. You are not using any of the operating system file management resources (system overhead) to sort, filter, tag or navigate to your directories and files!!! (2) Custom and specialized tagging of files of any type. For example, if you are a lyricist you might want to tag plain text, spreadsheet, PDF or even a C file with genre. This is "genrally" considered irrelevant by the operating system (3) Recording, analyzing and documenting the contents of your huge drives using the full power of Calc© for tables, charts and graphs. This can be for yourself and your associates for team work (4) Plannning, Monitoring and Control of your computer at your own pace without operating system resources breathing down your neck. (5) Using hyperlink feature of Calc© without actually having to bother about paths, directory trees and stuff. (6) All this can lead you to the overwhelming question of whether My Documents, My Pictures, Libraries, etc. are really relevant when anybody can design their own file access system with ordinary Calc© spreadsheets? HappyLinked© Monier-Williams Sanskrit Dictionary1899 http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/9019 This is goodbye to electronic glue and huge PDF files. This first time implementation by kedarnath jonnalagadda will leave you wondering why you had not done it years ago! First, you need to face the fact that nobody can read two pages at the same time! Human beings are not spiders! All of us know that our machines chug along with PDF documents that have many pages. So, you can get faster computers or better PDF file readers. OR split huge files into single page PDF files. Are you are afraid of managing 1333 single page PDF files or pictures or anything. Then, I am afraid you will not be able to manage the zillion things you want to. But if you want a pundit like analysis of Sanskrit, or comparitive linguistics of distant languages such Maya of the south and meso Americas or Japanese, or Aborigine languages of Australia. Or wanting to teach your robot a language, you would want to look up the world's most comprehensive Sanskrit English dictionary. And that is Sir Monier Williams - A Sanskrit English Dictionary published in1899. The1333 pages of the dictionary are kept as seperate files, PDF or pictures doesn't matter. HappyLinks© are set up to interface and access these in the spreadsheet program sitting idle in your computer. HappyLinks© Monier Williams Sanskrit Dictionary Spreadsheet Interface happily links 1333 single page PDF files of the dictionary in the ordinary spreadsheet program sitting in your computer. You can use it for whatever and be methodical and make notes in your study. Furthermore you can now start scheming to send these on to mobile computing devices etc. and dreaming to make the big bucks! You'll need bookmarks, however, to land on the right place on the page! And that will keep you busy until I finish including sounds in my PDF files which is what the Sanskrit language for for that matter any language is about. Heh! Heh! You Localize Setup IME http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/8624 You Localize Setup IME is a Calc template to translate Windows® Menus to setup keyboard input in your own language script. In translating items and making notes themselves, students, teachers and others understand the process of setup quickly and thoroughly. Additionally and very importantly they become familiar with English and global terminology of rapidly advancing technology. You Localize http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/8617You Localize is a simple Calc template for users to translate menu item trees in their own language themselves. This helps students, teachers and others to start using OpenOffice Calc quickly, methodically and thoroughly. Developments in OpenOffice and technology are proceeding very fast and newer versions are being released frequently. In spite of enormous efforts to translate and localize it is difficult to keep in pace with developments. You Localize has only a portion of the Menu tree of Calc, students can complete it is a learning project. There is no reason why users cannot develop their own templates in Calc for other components of OpenOffice or for that matter any other program. Pictures of the menus in the picture are cut outs from screen capture and rendered in high resolution using Gimp© available at http://www'.gimp.org kedarnath jonnalagadda ----------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ gnumeric-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list
