Archive | March, 2008

Google Online Spreadsheets Get New Gadgets

Posted on 22 March 2008

Google seems to be never resting. On Wednesday, the powerful company launched a set of brand new tools that will help users to build gadgets, that is small Web applications that can display data from the company’s online spreadsheet application.
Google offers its new Gadgets-in-Docs and Visualization API as a platform in which any interested person [...]

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Pricepinx - Get alerted of price drop and save money

Posted on 18 March 2008

Here is the situation. You are looking to buy something online at a particular website. But you feel the price is a little to high for you. Nevertheless, you expect the price to come down in the next few days or week. But then how would you know that the price has dropped. One way [...]

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Open Office 2007 files with older Office versions

Posted on 18 March 2008

Microsoft as changed its default file format in Office 2007. For example, .doc has become .docx and .xls has become .xlsx. The new formats now heavily depend on the XML file format. So, while you can open files of the older format using Office 2007 (in Compatibility mode), you won’t be able to open files [...]

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Getclippings - Create your own newspaper clippings

Posted on 17 March 2008

 

I don’t have to tell you that the above news clippings are fakes, though I obviously wish that someday the news does come true.
You too can make your own news clippings just like the above. Just head to getclippings.com, fill up the fields and click the ‘generate’ button. You can then download the clippings [...]

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3 interesting variations of Michael Jackson’s Thriller

Posted on 16 March 2008

Here are three different variations of Michael Jackson’s blockbuster ‘Thriller’.
1. Performed by prisoners in a Philippines prison.
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Keyfinder - Retrieve Windows and Office Product Keys

Posted on 16 March 2008

The Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder is a freeware utility that retrieves your Product Key (cd key) used to install windows from your registry. It is a single .exe file. Just download it and run it to instantly retrieve your Windows Product key. It retrieves the key of Office as well. It also lets you [...]

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Bring back the Autosummarize tool in Word 2007

Posted on 15 March 2008

Versions earlier to Word 2007 used to have an AutoSummarize option in the Tool menu. The idea of the tool was to basically summarize long documents so that you could get the gist of the content. But honestly, it was not a tool you could really rely on. While, the summaries produced by it were [...]

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