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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:
This is a …

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Microsoft’s Office 2010 has rolled out to trusted testers, and among the screenshots coming back, nothing seems so promising as the Quick Steps buttons. They’re like high-powered Send & Archive buttons that can be tweaked to do any multi-step action.
Sure, Office 2010 includes automatic SkyDrive document synchronization, native PDF creation, advanced video editing in PowerPoint, and a lot of other tweaks—detailed, in screenshots and text, by the Digital Inspiration blog.
But what’s really exciting to our email-handling reptile brains is the ability to create Quick Step buttons for any …

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Windows: Wanna give Office 2010′s online document syncing, Windows 7 taskbar integration, and killer quick steps a go? Microsoft has thrown open the doors on a free beta of Office 2010 Professional—for those who can wait out the download.
As with the Windows 7 beta and most Microsoft offerings, this one requires grabbing a license key, registering or signing in with a Windows Live/Passport account, and fighting it out with the many others trying to grab the download from the servers. The download is 684 MB, and Microsoft is …

Windows only: Have you ever told a little white lie about when you started working on a project, hoping nobody would notice that the file timestamps disagree? SKTimeStamp helps you lie more effectively.
Once you’ve installed the explorer add-on, all you have to do is right-click on a file, choose the TimeStamps tab, change the dates to anything you want, and then click the Touch button. The file will magically appear to have been created or modified whenever you specified—though depending on the type of file some of the other metadata …

Trying to figure out what to serve your skittles-infused vodka in? Why, a flavored gummy shot glass, of course.
ShesParticular at tinkering haven Instructables uploaded a ridiculously simple tutorial on making your own gummy shot glasses. The gist of it: you use a silicone mold intended for making ice shot glasses, you microwave a bunch of gummi worms on a low heat to melt them, and then you pour the mixture into the molds. There are some details to refine the process included in her tutorial, but the basis of technique …

Baby proofing can be a big task and often involves a fair amount of modification to your physical environment. Avoid having to drill holes into your staircase banister with this trick.

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Hot damn, you can trade your old crappy video games in to Amazon now and get Amazon gift cards dropped into your account. As someone who buys a lot of crap from Amazon.com, I can best describe my feelings about this as “excited” and “happy”, among others.
Trade-in values appear to be relatively fair, especially for newer games. The Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty: World at War, for instance, sells new for $49.99 and carries a trade-in value of $26.50. To get everything kick started, if you …

For those traveling, away from their system or otherwise in need of a quick photo upload, Picasa Web Albums now let you email in your album additions.
To enable email uploads, from your Picasa Web Albums account, click on settings and scroll down until you see the Upload Photos by Email section as seen in the screenshot here. Check the box, then type in a secret word. The secret word becomes the suffix on your address in the form of username.secretword@picasaweb.com. Then you’ll want to add your upload address, like myusername.zomgpictures@picasaweb.com, …