Can I Use Microsoft Office Clip Art and Stock Images Elsewhere?

One of the nice benefits of having Microsoft Office is that you get access to tons of royalty-free stock photographs, illustrations, animations and clip art to enhance your Word documents and PowerPoint presentations. →

These images can be accessed directly from any of the Microsoft Office programs or you may download them online from the Microsoft Office website at office.com.

Office Clip Art & Images - Permitted Usage

An oft-asked question is can you use these photos and clip art files outside Microsoft Office for a commercial or non-commercial project?
For instance, would it be legal to use the Office images on a public web page – say for the purpose of illustrating a blog post? Can you modify or annotate an image found on Office.com? Or can you use them in a printed technical manual or as the cover image of an ebook?

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Quickly Open Google Cached Pages in Chrome

How to access the cached version of any web page in Google.

Google Cache is among the most useful features of Google Web Search. →
If a website is down or is taking too much time to respond, you can quickly retrieve the cached copy of that page from Google servers. The cache can also be serve as a proxy server (sort of) allowing you to view pages that may be inaccessible from your current location.
The "Cached" link had a prominent place in Google search results but with Instant Previews, the Cached links become visible only when you hover the mouse over a search result (see screenshot above).

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Know the Sleeping Time of anyone on Twitter

The new version of Sleeping Time is now live at sleepingtime.org. →

Sleeping Time, if you are new, is a web app that lets you determine the sleeping pattern of any Twitter user as long as they have a public profile on Twitter (see sample report).
Sleeping Time launched in 2010 and since then, the app has been used to generate the sleeping schedules of more than 500,000 Twitter users. The response was unexpected and it even made it to the front page of a newspaper.

The app reads the time-stamp of the last 1,000 tweets of a Twitter user and then estimates their sleep cycle based on hours when he or she is least active on Twitter. To get started, sign-in with your Twitter account (it will never post anything to Twitter on your behalf) and enter the user name of any Twitter user to see their sleeping pattern.
Here’s what’s new /changed in Sleeping Time v2.0:

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Portable Smart Diary Suite 4.7.5.0 Home Edition

Smart Diary® Suite will help you organize and control your life in one easy to use and flexible package! Visually see the effects of life using Life Factors! More than just diary software or a PIM, Smart Diary Suite is instead a completely customizable, yet easy to use, Personal Information Solution. It can be as simple or as complex as you wish it to be.

Your life could be organized better and Smart Diary Suite will help you take control of your life. Please let us show you just a few ways how (see our features page for more information):

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Portable PDFZilla 1.2.11

PDFZilla is a desktop application that quickly and accurately convert PDF files into editable MS Word Documents, Rich Text Documents, Plain Text Files, Images, HTML Files, and Shockwave Flash SWF Files. PDFZilla supports most of popular formats: DOC, RTF, TXT, BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, TIF, HTML, SWF formats.

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