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How To Enable Hundreds of new Fonts on Google Docs

Looking for more fonts in Google Docs? How about hundreds of them? Google just significantly updated their font collection and here’s a quick tip on how to add them to your account.

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Dashboard for Chrome is an Awesome Chrome Add in For Taking Notes and More

There are times when we are working online and want to jot down ideas, perform calculations, etc. so that we can work on them. For example, if you are a student and researching about any topic, writing down different points on a piece of paper or even word can be annoying as you have to switch windows. Dashboard for Google Chrome solves this problem.

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Easily Save Outlook Meeting Notes To OneNote

One of my favorite features of Microsoft OneNote is the ability to copy an calendar item quickly to OneNote for taking meeting notes. Not only does it make finding meetings notes easy, it’s also the fastest method I know for…

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Save Money! Do your (U.S.) Taxes for Free Online

It’s that time of year again and with less than a month before the deadline, U.S. taxpayers need to file their tax returns soon or face the wrath of the I.R.S. tax police. Here’s how to file your taxes for free online!

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Do you feel like stuttering, punk! Well, do you?

Japanese inventors have come up with a gizmo called the SpeechJammer. It silences people. You can imagine a lot of situations where it would be handy to pack a SpeechJammer–construction sites, NASCAR races, assembly lines, war zones, droning airplanes, and droning politicians, to name the obvious. And it could be a protest control tool that every dictator must have dreamed of. …

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Is That Email Really Necessary? Really?

The story goes that at a company named Atros, the management was convinced that employees were wasting vast amounts of time doing email. So they flat-out banned all email. The result? Email use dropped by…

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Secret iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch Keyboard Shortcut Tips

Did you know that Apple iPhones, iPads and the iPod touch devices have secret keyboard shortcuts you can access by pressing and holding a key on the keyboard? OK… perhaps not exactly “secret” however, Apple did a nice job of hiding this groovy feature on iOS devices and I’ll bet you’ve never heard of it [...]

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Apple iOS: How To Create Keyboard Shortcuts

Using the Keyboard Shortcuts feature on  iOS devices allows you to send pre-configured messages using minimal keystrokes. Here’s how it works. First, tap Settings. Then tap General. Now tap on Keyboard. From the Keyboard menu, existing shortcuts will be listed. To create a new one, tap Add New Shortcut. Enter in a phrase and shortcut, [...]

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Apple iPhone iOS 5 : How To Create a Location-Based Reminder

Apple  iOS 5 introduced a new location-based reminder feature for your Apple  iPhone 4 and 4S. Reminders let you configure alerts based on date, time or location. Here’s how to set up a location-based reminder on an iPhone. Tap iCloud Confirm you’ve set Reminders to ON. Now, create a contact with a location for our reminder. [...]

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Google OCR: How To Digitize Old Paper Docs

Provided you have a scanner or hi-res camera with tripod and a Google account, it’s pretty easy to get your dusty old paper docs into digital form using Google’s Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Here’s how. Photo Credit: ShironekoEuro First, just scan or, as a second resort, take a clear picture of the document that you [...]

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