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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.