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Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Opera - Reviews and free downloads at Download.com

Opera offering FREE Opera Browser.
Download here and then follow easy directions to obtain registration code.

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Trouts and Seasons of The Mountain Village - Paper Craft 1

Japanese paper craft from MAKE from boing boing.
cool stuff.
downloadable pdf files with color cut out pictures of fish and instructions for putting them together.

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Exclusive First Look: The New DIRECTV DVR | PVRblog

Over at the PVRblog they're talking about the new DirecTV DVR (the replacement for the Tivo). While I'm interested in the new HD capabilities, I think I'm emotionally attached to the idea of "tivo" and am not looking forward to a replacement. It may even be a lot better but I very much have a resistance to a replacement.
What great marketing.

That being said, I wouldn't mind more hard drive space. I just haven't had a compelling reason to make a change.

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Magazine Cover

Cool magazine cover generator that links to your flickr account.

Friday, August 19, 2005

Confused about ActiveWords

I don't get it.
ActiveWords seems like a great/good program that does what it is supposed to do... However, I just don't understand why it gets so much "press" (blog entries).
I use Macro Express from www.macros.com and it seems to do basically the same thing. There's scripting and there's action recording. I use hundreds of short cut keys for names and obscure e-mail addresses that I use often.
When writing documentation I often create a short key for the project title and I've got on that includes my conference/bridge line information along with some 'fill in the blank' items that should be in every meeting invite... Regardless of all that, it was cheap to buy - I think it was about 39 dollars - and has a similar feature set as ActiveWords. So, I just don't understand why it doesn't get more attention.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Download Squad

http://www.alienware.com/Standalone_Pages/darkstar.aspx

from download squad - free desktop skins from alienware... not bad for a freebie!


Track Flights with FBOWeb
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Have you ever wanted to track a plane as it flew across the country? With FBOWeb, you can. Stop by their main page, select an Airline, enter a flight number, and click Track. FBOWeb displays the current location of the flight and its ETA. This information updates itself once a minute, so you can track the plane as make its way to its destination. Cool stuff.

Note: The main FBOWeb page is getting a facelift. You can preview the new (not yet functional) page here.


[Lifehacker]

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

The Universal Packing List

The Universal Packing List: "The Universal Packing List

Generate a custom packing list for any journey!


Try the map based version!
(3.3 MB) or
(2.0 MB) download."

STVP Educators Corner

Free resources for entrepreneurs.





STVP Educators Corner: "For more of Larry Page and Eric Schmidt's clips, click HERE."


Monday, August 08, 2005

Matt's Idea Blog: Actually getting things done with Getting Things Done! Surprises and learnings from my implementation.o

I don't have time to read this whole thing right now but thought I'd post so that I could share with my dad who is also looking to implement GTD.

Matt's Idea Blog: Actually getting things done with Getting Things Done! Surprises and learnings from my implementation.

Sunday, August 07, 2005

Baarns Publishing: Excel Product- The Excel On-Line Experience - Microsoft Office Superstore

Baarns Publishing: Excel Product- The Excel On-Line Experience - Microsoft Office Superstore

Wednesday, August 03, 2005

New Excel Blog.

Excel is easily the office product I use the second most - (Outlook is first).




Excel WatchJohn Walkenbach just launched a blog on the upcoming release of Excel 12.


Excel Watch - "The purpose of this blog is to provide a central source for information about the next version of Excel."


Awesome idea, and considering the Office 12 preview site appears to have been forgotten already and still lacks an RSS feed, I'll for sure be tuning in to John's feed.


(via The DDOE)

[Automate Excel]

Monday, August 01, 2005

WorkHappy.net: killer resources for entrepreneurs

WorkHappy.net: killer resources for entrepreneurs: "Happy Links"

"Time Management with PDAs"

"Time Management with PDAs": "Today Plugins: WisBar Advance 2 (does too much for my simple mind to
describe, but I sure recommend you try it to see all it can do). The
only other one I would recommend would be PItoday. I shy away from
Today plugins because they generally slow your device down or gobble
more memory than they're worth, but PItoday is an exception. It doesn't
take much memory and offers a lot. The same with WisBar Advance 2
(technically not a plugin, but a shell enhancement)."