This is a cool device. Bedol What’s Next specializes in innovative design, and this clock fits that description–and it’s eco-friendly, as well. To power up the Water Clock Smiley Alarm, you just fill it with tap water. It starts running immediately. You’ll need to swap out the water every 12 weeks or so, but you won’t lose time when you do so, thanks to a built-in chip. It even features a daily and hourly alarm.
How does it work? The site says it converts ions in the …

When you upload files to Google Docs, you’ll notice a new option that tells Google to convert the text from PDF and image files to Google Docs documents. The feature has been released last year as an experiment, so Google had enough time to improve the accuracy of the results.

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Windows: Windows 7 install discs are edition-specific—if you’ve got a valid license key, you still need the right disc for installation. The ei.cfg Removal Utility, however, lets you create a new, universal installation ISO for Windows 7.
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Mike Halsey just came up with an ingenious way to add system icons like the Control Panel, Recycle Bin, Devices and Printers, and more to the new Windows 7 taskbar, all while keeping them separate from the other icons already docked there.
Mike’s hack builds off of the WinVistaClub forum tip about how to add the quick launch toolbar back into Windows 7 . The end results of the hack look like this (click for image).
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Windows only: The Sumatra PDF Viewer is a tiny, open-source, portable, and, most of all, lightning-quick replacement for the bloated Adobe Reader we’ve all learned to replace. It’s only a 1.2 MB download, so why not give it a try?
Sumatra opened every PDF we threw at it without any issues, along with a table of contents in the left pane if available. You can head into the Options to choose the default layout and zoom, or choose whether to have the sidebar display automatically. Want to copy text …

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Windows only: If you’ve ever wanted to keep a program safe from prying eyes but don’t want to close it, free utility LockThis! will let you easily protect any open program, so that un-minimizing it requires a password.
LockThis! is extremely easy to use—to lock an application, all you need to do is press Ctrl while minimizing the window that you want protected. It will ask you for your admin password (which by default is LockThis! but can be changed from the admin window), and then keep the window …

I just loaded up my Xbox 360 recently only to discover some nice new additions to the Xbox Live service. The addition of Twitter, Facebook, Last.FM, and Zune Video marketplace adds a whole new dimension in having the Xbox 360 as an ultimate source of rich media in your living room. Listed below is my shared experience with these additions. Twitter and Facebook are displayed in the community section, where you currently also find the “Game with Fame” events. The Zune Marketplace is the first thing that pops up when …

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Web application Shape Collage quickly turns your online photos into embeddable photo collages with nothing more than a few clicks. It’s a interesting way to showcase your pictures online without a lot of work.
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Wired’s How-To Wiki points out that HTML emails rendered by Outlook are not only occasionally hard to format, they’ll look different (and broken) in many clients. They follow up with tips on turning some or all emails to plain text.
If you’re generally emailing inside a closed circle with Outlook users, HTML-formatted emails are probably fine. But reaching outside Outlook’s very specific HTML confines can cause broken graphics and strange formatting. Hit the link for the menu options and shortcuts that set Outlook 2003 and 2007 to send in …

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If you’re aching to try out Chrome OS after taking a glimpse earlier today, friendly power user Mark Renouf has compiled a VMware image of Chrome OS for testing out in your virtual machine environment.
While Chrome OS is far from ready for the regular user, lots of us are aching to play around a little with Google’s young operating system. This virtual machine-friendly build looks like a good way to do just that, and you can grab it via BitTorrent now. From The Pirate Bay page:
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