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Scan Tailor Cleans Up Scanned Pages
5:30AM Lisa Hoover | Windows/Linux: Tired of fiddling with scanned pages to remove borders, correct alignment and otherwise prettify them before storing or emailing them? Then Scan Tailor could be right up your alley. More »
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Quickly Upload Photos And Video To Facebook Via Email
2:30AM Adam Pash | Facebook is easily one of the most popular places to share photos and videos with friends and family. Now the folks at Facebook have streamlined the process, allowing you to upload media directly to your account via a personalised email address. More »
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Pin Outlook Templates To The Taskbar For Quick Access
6:00AM The How-To Geek | Reader Stephen writes in with an excellent, time-saving tip: you can create Outlook templates for frequently-used topics, and then pin them to the taskbar to make them easy to access. More »
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MovieStinger Reveals Which Movies Have Scenes After The Credits
3:30AM Adam Pash | “Oh man! Did you see that extra scene after the credits? It was great!” Ever heard those words in the lobby after you’d walked out before the credits finished rolling? MovieStinger helps avoid that sort of disappointment by maintaining a list of which movies contain additional footage after the credits. More »
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Smart Installer Automatically Installs Your Favourite Software To PC
8:00AM Adam Pash | Windows only: Hunting down application after application to fill a new computer with your favourite software can be a pain. Free application Smart Installer Pack makes it easy. More »
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Use Texter To Supercharge Your Repetitive Typing
2:00AM Adam Pash | Web development and design site Nettuts goes in-depth with Texter, our very own text replacement application, detailing how Texter can streamline your email replies and coding to save bundles of time. The Nuttuts tutorial takes a great in-depth look at some advanced Texter usage and scripting, focusing on how Texter can save time with repetitive email and coding. Whether or not you’re a developer, the video above (and accompanying post) offer a great look at how you might be able to take advantage of Texter (or some other text replacement app) to save oodles of time at your keyboard. Got any advanced Texter tricks of your own? Share them in the comments. How I Can Code Twice As Fast As You [Nettuts] More »
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Boost Your Dinner-Prep Efficiency For Quicker Meals
4:00AM Adam Pash | Making a proper dinner when your short on time is difficult, so the household mavens at RealSimple detail how to use five-minute windows to make short work of your dinner prep. For example: b>Chop vegetables. “Onions, peppers, broccoli, zucchini, squash — they can all be chopped ahead,” says caterer Peter Callahan of Callahan Catering, in New York City. “Just cover them with a damp paper towel to keep the cut ends from drying out, then refrigerate.” If you won’t need the vegetables for up to 12 hours, pop them, towel and all, into a plastic bag. (Onions and other frequently used vegetables can be chopped, then frozen in plastic for 3 weeks.) The article offers several different tips of this kind, but the overarching idea is simple: If you’ve got a few minutes here and there to prep different aspects of your dinner ahead of time, putting it all together can be a relatively quick and painless process. I’m never more impressed than by those kings and queens of the kitchen who can make an incredible meal over the course of a day putting seemingly no effort into it, but clearly these are the kind of things they’re doing. If you’re a master of the distributed, painless dinner prep, let’s hear your favourite timesavers in the comments. Photo by viZZZual.com. Efficient Dinner-Prep Tips [RealSimple] More »
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Random Line Picker Chooses Items From A List
6:00AM Lifehacker US Edition | If you’ve ever been tasked with choosing a random winner from a list of people, there’s an easier way than choosing from a bowl-full of tiny pieces of paper. Take Random Line Picker, for example. The Random Line Picker is a tiny online tool that chooses a random item from a text list. Simply paste your list with each item on a separate line, and then click the Pick 1 Line button to choose a single item from the list. If you are worried about privacy or giving a website your list, the Productivity Portfolio site has a tutorial for selecting random names with Excel using the RANDBETWEEN() function to assign a random number to each record, using the smallest number as the winner. This simple app doesn’t do a lot, but it does exactly what it advertises quickly and easily. Random Line Picker More »
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Save Time and Typing with Outlook 2007’s Quick Parts
6:09AM Lifehacker US Edition | Outlook users, if you find yourself entering the same things into email messages, you should take a look at the Quick Parts feature, which saves snippets of both text and images for easy reuse. While Gina briefly mentioned this feature in her guide to Tweaking Outlook to empty your inbox faster, let’s take a closer look at how to use it. More »
