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The new 27 inch iMac

Not quite sure why it’s $100 more expensive here in Canada than in the US, considering the recent exchange rate…

Do I see a trip to Seattle in my future…? Maybe I should wait ’til November for the quad core. Decisions, decisions.

Did you know that, until the end of the month, WinX DVD Author (usually $30) and WinX DVD Ripper (usually $25) are FREE?

With DVD author you can burn loads of file formats to DVD and really make it your own with a personalized title, chapter menus, background images, music and so much more.

And the Ripper, well…rips.

Windows only.

Source: Lifehacker

Don’t want to fork out for professionally printed business cards? Well, you don’t have to.

Make your own professional looking business cards with businesscardstar. For free.

It’s super easy – you just sign up and use one of their 100 starting templates. Then edit away. Be creative.

You can print 8 or 10 cards to a page then print out (compatible with Avery labels).

And if you’re feeling flush, you can even get them to print them for you (at a fair price) with a silk or glossy card finish.

businesscardstar

I’ve been seriously mourning the loss of Tab Mix Plus for FF3.

Having to right click, open in new tab to get a link or bookmark to open in a new tab was driving me crazy.

Every time FF3 told me it had found an update for one of my add-ons, I could hardly bear the excitement, thinking could it be, just maybe, Tab Mix Plus?….but disappointment abounded.

But, no more!

I did a manual check today, just out of curiosity and lo and behold, there’s a development build of the add-on on the Tab Mix Plus website. O glory be!

It’s always such a nightmare entering loads of figures into an excel spreadsheet and then having to try and check the figures are right, isn’t it?

Did you know Excel can READ the data (numbers and words) back to you so you can manually check the original data? Nor did I until I read the latest tip from tech-recipes.

Here’s what they say to do:

1. Open Excel 2007 and go to the Quick Access Toolbar at the top of the window.
2. Click the downward point arrow to the right of the toolbar and select More Commands.
3. From the dropdown menu, select Commands Not in the Ribbon.
4. Scroll down the list and find Speak Cells, Speak Cells — Stop Speaking Cells, Speak Cells by Columns, Speak Cells by Rows, and Speak Cells on Enter. Add each of these by selecting them one-by-one and clicking the Add button. Click OK after all 5 commands have been added.
5. Now go to your spreadsheet and select the cells you want Excel to read by performing a simple click and drag. Once the data is selected, go to the Quick Access toolbar and select either Speak Cells by Columns or Speak Cells by Rows. When you are ready for Excel to begin reading off the data contained in the selected cells, select Speak Cells and Excel will begin reading out the data to you.
6. If you need Excel to stop reading, simply select Speak Cells – Stop Speaking Cells.

Admittedly having all those items on your quick access toolbar is a bit clunky, but you can always remove them, I suppose?

Catch Act I here.

Act II being released tonight at 12am EST.

Sing along now….

I’ve been wanting to know how to do this for ages. And now the How-to Geek has told me how. Who knew it could be so simple?

I use Firefox, but he also deals with IE7. What a guy!

Check out his post here.

Now if he could only tell me how to open a bookmark in a new tab in Firefox 3 without having to right click, open in new tab…. or get that new tab to open on the page of my choice rather than a blank one…. Boy, do I miss TabMix Plus

And that’s all Favthumb does. But who needs anything more?

Just sign in with your delicious username and you’ll see a thumbnail grid of all your bookmarked items. Items without thumbnails are either blank or say ‘image coming soon’, which kind of spoils the view, but hey.

Hit the ‘Carousel’ button (top left) and you get a cover flow view (see above).

Apparently, if you put your password in you can see public bookmarks too, but I didn’t go there.

[via Lifehacker]

UPDATE: Favthumbs is no longer working

I have been using the Microsoft Office Labs ’search commands’ for a while now and it’s a pretty useful tool when you just don’t know how the heck to do something in Word, Excel or PowerPoint 2007.

You can download an additional tab for your ‘ribbon’ that gives you a search box to type in your query and it magically tells you how to do what you need to do. Just click on the result you want and it does what you need it to do.

Problem is, it doesn’t tell you HOW it did it, so you don’t get to learn anything. Can’t have everything, I suppose.

Simply go to the Office Labs search command page and download the .msi file, run it and next time you open Word, Excel or PowerPoint the last tab on your ribbon will be the ‘Search commands’ tab.

Search command from Microsoft Office Labs