Monthly Archive for February, 2009

Make $$$$ fast!

This is a cute joke…

Are you interested in making $$$$ fast? Here’s an incredibly simple way to do it, and there is nothing to buy, no investment to make, no money to lose! Try it now!

Follow this simple procedure:

  1. Open a new text or word processor document
  2. Hold down the shift key
  3. Hit the 4 key four times

There is no denying that it works!

Label templates by email

Avery Dennison, the big office supply company, has an excellent service that lets you receive templates for their products by email.

Have you ever bought a package of labels or business cards, and then spent too much time in Word trying to figure out how to lay them out. If you email templates@averydennison.com with the product number in the subject line (nothing else in the subject line, nothing in the body of the message), within a few minutes you’ll receive a template via email.

For instance, the 3 1/2″ Diskette Labels is product 8196. I sent the following message…

avery_template_sent… and got this back …

avery_template_reply

Finding images of a specific size

I always tease my wife if she’s typing something up. She spends 5 minutes doing the typing and an hour on Google Images looking for good clipart to go with what she is typing. I’m sure many of you are the same. I recently heard about a “hidden” feature of Google Images that might help. It let’s you search for specific sizes of images. For a while now there has been a drop down list where you could choose between small, medium, large, and extra large. Well, along with your search term, if you put in imagesize:1024×768 (or whatever size you want, you’ll only see results of that size. This is particularly useful for finding desktop wallpaper.

For instance, doing a search for…

imagesize:1024×768 Niagara Falls

…brings up hundreds of pictures of Niagara Falls that are that size.

google_image_search_imagesize_example

Along with 1024×758, other common desktop wallpaper image sizes are 1680×1050 (widescreen), 1440×900 (laptop widescreen), 1280×1024, and 800×600. Also, icons are generally 32×32 or 64×64. Unfortunately, clipart could be any size, but you might try a small/medium size of 400×400 or 400×300 and see what you get.