Free Software to help you at home

• Online Scientific Calculator
• Online Graphing Calculator
• Download Graph Papers: with plain large grids | with plain small grids
• Create simple graphs with this online program
• CMAP Tools- free Inspiration-like software
• OpenOffice - Good open source Microsoft Office- like software for the PC
• NeoOffice - Good open source Microsoft Office-like software for the Mac

Using GoogleFU to Search on the Internet

GoogleFu: “the ability to quickly answer any given question using internet resources, such as a search engine”. Here is a quick comparison chart of all the different ways you can search for specific information on a search engine.

	Full Boolean	Implied Boolean	What it means (templates)
OR	college or university	college    university	*see note below any of these words… (1) can contain the words (2) should contain the words
AND	poverty and crime	+poverty    +crime	all of these words must contain the words
NOT	cats not dogs	cats    -dogs	(1) must not contain the words (2) should not contain the words
NEAR, etc.	cats near dogs	N/A	near