Eatmecrunchy Bowl

 No More Soggy Cereals, Thanks to the Eatmecrunchy Bowl

I love gadgets that solve the big problems in life and what can be more troublesome than eating a bowl of soggy cereals in the morning. Yeah your first few spoonfuls might have their intended crunchiness but after that its all downhill and your morning meal gets soggier and soggier. But help is at hand, with the Eatmecrunchy Bowl.

The concept behind this revolutionary breakfast bowl is forehead-slappingly simple. A removable shelf covers 70% of the bowl’s base, holding the cereal above the milk. All you have to do is eat your cereal from the shelf-less section of the bowl where the cereal and milk meet, pushing the cereal in as required. Brilliant!

You can buy the Eatmecrunchy Bowl for $10.20 (£4.95) from Firebox, long may the crunchy breakfast continue.

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Drawing a Box around Text in Microsoft Word

Microsoft Word offers a truly dazzling (and sometimes bewildering) array of options for dressing up your documents. One of the most popular is the Borders and Shading feature. It's versatile, useful, and, best of all, easy to use. If all you want to do is draw a simple box around some text, just follow these steps:

1. Select the text you want to draw a border around.

You can select individual characters, a single word or group of words, or a single paragraph or even a group of paragraphs.

If you don't select text at all, Word draws a border around the entire paragraph the cursor happens to be sitting in. As a result, if you want to draw a box around an entire paragraph, just click the mouse anywhere in the paragraph and proceed to the next step.

2. Choose Format‡Borders and Shading.

The Borders and Shading dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 1.

3. Click Box in the list of border types that appears at the left of the Borders and Shading dialog box.

The Borders and Shading dialog box has plenty of options that let you create fancier borders. For now, just click Box.

4. Click OK.

The Borders and Shading dialog box vanishes, and your text now has a box around it.

The following paragraphs describe some of the additional tricks you can perform with the Borders and Shading dialog box:

• In addition to the Box border style, the Borders and Shading dialog box offers two other preset border styles: Shadow and 3-D. You can experiment with these settings to see what effect they have.

• You can also build a custom border one line at a time by clicking the buttons around the various edges of the paragraphs represented in the Preview area to indicate which edges you want a border to appear. These buttons control whether a border appears above, below, to the left, or to the right of the selection. If you select more than one paragraph, you also see a button that lets you add or remove lines between the paragraphs.

• The Style drop-down list lets you choose a fancy style for each line of the border. Various styles, such as double lines and dashed lines, are available. Note that you can change line styles as you apply individual borders, so that a paragraph can have a thin border at the top and a thick border at the bottom.

• The Color drop-down list lets you set the color for your border. You can select a standard color that appears in the list, or you can click More Line Colors at the bottom of the list of colors to bring up a dialog box that lets you choose any color you want.

• The Width drop-down lets you choose a width for each segment of the border.

By default, the borders are placed one point from the text they surround. If that placement is too right for you, you can adjust it by clicking the Options button in the Borders and Shading dialog box. The Borders and Shading Options dialog box comes up.

Drawing a Box around Text in Microsoft Word - For Dummies

ProQuo - free junk mail killer

The amount of junk sitting in most people's mailbox, and then invariably their trash cans is sickening. And the $41 billion industry shows no signs of letting up. ProQuo is a new start-up with a different plan in mind - putting you, the consumer in charge of what advertising you get in your mailbox.

The process is simple. You register at ProQuo, providing your name, address and phone number. You then get to a screen where you can opt out of several direct mail lists such as coupons and weekly circulars (think ValPak) and marketing lists and data brokers. These might include the exclusive offers you receive for the low APR credit cards that balloon up after the intro period or if you make a late payment.

ProQuo makes it easy for you to opt out of all of them with a convenient "stop all" button. When you press this button, some of the nasty offenders do go away, kind of like bugs seeing Raid for the first time. Unfortunately, there's more work involved for others.

For example, the Consumer Credit Reporting companies (Experian, TransUnion, Innovis and Equifax) require further action. This means you are shunted off to their website where you click yes to opting out and then you get a screen which tells you to print out the confirmation page and mail it in. A hassle but most likely worth the aggravation.
The service is free and in return, ProQuo will allow advertisers to market their services in the event you want to "opt-in" for some new offers. (Yeah, right). In return, ProQuo will make money from the ads. Here's the good news. They won't directly solicit customers. They will only passively shill the offers on their website which they hope you return to, to continue your fight against junk mail.

Other junk mail eliminator services such as GreenDimes, 41Pounds and StopTheJunkMail charge a fee for their services.
According to ProQuo you can expect to eliminate between 50-90% of the junk mail using their service. You will see results in 4 weeks and the full impact in 3 months. Currently, ProQuo blocks 16 different junk mail companies and hopes to add more to their list.

ProQuo - free junk mail killer - Download Squad

Remove Tourists from Photos with Tourist Remover

Online photo management application Snapmania's Tourist Remover gets rid of unwanted gawkers and traffic from your photos by compositing two or more pictures of the same scene. All you have to do is make sure to take more than one of the same picture of a scene, assuming the people or cars you want to get rid of are moving. Once you've taken enough pictures so that every piece of the scenery is visible, just upload them to Snapmania and let the Tourist Remover do the work. Keep in mind that the more steady your hand when taking multiple shots, the better results you'll see, so ideally you'll be using a tripod or at least a wall to steady yourself. Alternatively, if you've got some GIMP or Photoshop chops, you can do the same thing yourself.

Tourist Remover [Snapmania via Photojojo]

Image Editing: Remove Tourists from Photos with Tourist Remover

Free Documents at DocStoc

Need a template for your business plan, a tutorial on Python programming, or a copy of the Gettysburg address? Document sharing web site DocStoc has more than 12,000 files posted for free browsing and downloads. Registered members can keep personal "folders" on the site with links to useful docs and get notified by email when another user uploads a file type they request. Those looking for straight-up legal forms have other options, but DocStoc's wide range might make it a useful bookmark for when you just need to see an example—or you need a PowerPoint template to modify in a hurry.

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Document Sharing: Free Documents at DocStoc