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Every once in a while, I need to create a Visio-like line drawing. Sometimes it's to make a flowchart, or perhaps to sketch out a complicated project schedule. That said, I don't especially care for Visio; it's unnecessarily complicated, and it costs money. Now, though, I can use Project Draw, a fre...
click2try is an open source supermarket: In a nutshell, the site lets you experiment with a wide range of applications (not to mention three different Linux distributions) right in a browser window without installing or buying anything. Want to check out an office suite like Oxygen Office? ...
Want to remember a Web site for later? Sure, you could bookmark it, but that doesn't ensure you'll actually remember to revisit it. When I want to keep a site front and center in my mind, I use toread, a handy service that sends Web pages to my inbox. Specifically, toread (to read, get it?) copie...
Over at Lifehacker there's a tip on creating a hotkey that pastes plain text into Microsoft Word. But it involves creating a macro, which to me seems overcomplicated, and it obviously limits you to Word-based pasting. What if you want to paste plain text somewhere else, like into a blog tool? For...
Remember typewriters? You know, those things with levers that pressed metal letters into pieces of paper and that you could only "undo" with a bottle of White Out? Well, the City of New York is spending a cool million bucks on a fleet of thousands of new typewriters. Sure, I suppose there might b...
Can you bend customers to your will just by carefully choosing the right combination of words on your Web site? Looks like the answer is yes, based on a study that showed how clickthrough rates varied by making almost negligible changes to link text. Developer Dustin Curtis tested statements ...
Three weeks ago South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford publicly admitted to having an affair with an Argentine woman. Now the Governor and his wife are taking a vacation to see if they can work things out and save their marriage. As difficult as it may be for Jenny Sanford to forgive her husband, experts believe there's another type of infidelity -- one that involves money -- that can be even more devastating for couples.
Spelling counts! Think about that as you're preparing your resume -- and cover letter -- for your next job application. According to a recent survey of senior Canadian execs, a typo or two could seriously hurt your chances of landing the position. And what would a discussion of spelling errors...
By default, Firefox is a pretty keyboard-friendly browser -- which suits me fine, as I find reaching for the mouse a time-sucking exercise. Of course, there are times when the mouse can't be avoided, like when you need to click a link. Right? Wrong. The Mouseless Browsing add-on for Firefox lets ...
Have you ever written some sort of brochure, Web page, or newsletter, and needed to see how text flowed around graphics? Or wanted to record a training video but didn't want to show real corporate confidential documents in the screencast? Then I've got a trick for you: Word can automatically generat...
Granted it's not as exciting as the war stories your uncle used to tell you, but we've all been there: Copying and pasting a slew of changes between the same two documents, over and over. It would be great if you could somehow store three items in the clipboard, but alas, it only holds one. So yo...
It's been over a year since we asked you to name your Web browser of choice. In that time, we've seen the arrival of Google Chrome and Internet Explorer 8 -- both great browsers. Of course, we've also seen Firefox release version 3.5, Safari go 4.0, and so on. Thus, we've decided to indulge ou...
I absolutely despise the task manager in Outlook, but for now I'm stuck with it. Or maybe not, now that Google Tasks has graduated from Google Labs and become an official part of Gmail and Google Calendar. As we noted when we first wrote about the feature a couple months ago, Tasks offers some ni...
I am a fanatical e-mail filer -- I tend to move quite a bit of my mail to folders for safekeeping. This gets them out of the inbox and makes it easier to find what I'm looking for later. The problem, though, is that I have so many folders, it can sometimes complicate my organization. I've just found...
Polls are a great way to interact with customers and co-workers alike. If your audience is within reach of Outlook, you can always ask a question and embed some voting buttons. But if you are looking for a more flexible solution, ProProfs Polls lets you generate free online polls and share them in s...
