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One complaint I hear about the new Office 2007 ribbon is that it takes up too much real estate on the screen (screen estate, if you will). What you might not realize is that the ribbon is easy to hide, freeing up a big chunk of the screen. When you hide the ribbon, the tabs are still visible, a...
Ah, the thrill of checking off a completed task! It's the working world equivalent of bowling a perfect game or landing a triple axle. If you're on the hunt for just that sort of rush, then take a look at Doris, one of the newest free Web services designed to help you organize your daily to-dos. ...
Just like that kid you knew in third grade that liked to put staples in his hair, designers and photographers have special needs. For the creative types among us, though, those special needs are less about using safety scissors and more related to getting feedback and approval from their clients. I'...
Ever wish you could look at a PDF e-mail attachment without having to fire up your PDF viewer? With Foxit PDF Preview Handler, you can view PDFs right inside Outlook 2007, just like looking at the body of an e-mail. Here's how it looks: This add-in is free, but it requires Outlook 2007. Th...
Microsoft Recite lets you record and manage voice notes on your Windows Mobile smartphone and then search those notes using your voice. That's right: It's voice-recognition at the note-taking level. As with other voice-note programs, all you do is tap a button to start your recording.To find ...
If Neil Armstrong had a Gmail account in July, 1969, he could have sent e-mail with a signature that said "Sent from the Moon." That's because Gmail can now automatically append your location to the signature block of your messages. If your messages are always sent from the same cubicle just down...
I'm almost neurotically organized. Indeed, if allow my desktop to get messy, my productivity plummets. Stardock has released a free app just for people like me: Fences lets you create organized groups of icons on your desktop, and quickly show or hide them at will. Truly, the awesomeness of Fen...
If you routinely rock Google Docs for your spreadsheet needs, here's good news: You can now edit Google Docs spreadsheets right on your phone. Previously, all you could do was view them. But now, if you have an iPhone, T-Mobile G1, or Nokia S60, you can add or edit rows, filter columns by val...
If you're still doing the old-school business card thing (as opposed to the new-school Dropcard thing), Digital Inspiration has an intriguing suggestion for your next print run: Put Google on your business cards. Specifically, one way to make your cards stand out is by incorporating that oh-so-fa...
Cameras are so ubiquitous that they're built into everything these days, including pocket calculators and toaster ovens. Unfortunately, the image quality from camera phones can be somewhat lackluster. Fight back by reading Chase Jarvis's tips to improve your iPhone photos. Sure, his post is iPho...
Remember Gcal Redesigned and Gmail Redesigned? They've been rolled into Google Redesigned, a Firefox extension that gussies-up Gmail, Google Calendar, and, in a new 0.2 release, Google Reader. As you can see in the above screenshot, the GR "skin" gives Google Reader a much more modern, attrac...
You know what bugs me about Windows? (How much time do you have?) Mouse-wheel scrolling doesn't work based on where you point your cursor. Instead, a window must have "focus" (meaning you've clicked in it to make it the selected window) for the mouse wheel to function. That's insane! Fortunately,...
Microsoft would like you to save your files anywhere you like, as long as it's the My Documents folder. The Office apps are complicit in this Draconian conspiracy by opening the Documents location by default when you try to save or open a file. Well, you don't have to stand for that. In Office 2007,...
Having a weird problem with your computer? Good luck getting it figured out; without your own IT department, you will have to determine if it's a hardware problem or software problem, and then try to narrow it down to a Windows glitch or trouble with some other program. For its part, Microsoft has t...
Remember LucidChart, the Web-based tool that lets you whip up flow charts right inside your browser? Say hello to Lovely Charts, a Web-based tool that lets you whip up flow charts right inside your browser. You can get started with LC by signing up for a free account, which requires nothing more ...
