I often find it useful at work to get screenshots of web pages, but until now getting an entire page has always been a tedious process of stitching together multiple screenshots and editing out the “browser chrome.”
Screen grab! makes life easy.
Yet another reason to use Firefox instead of IE.
…but just once a year.
AnnualCreditReport.com is a joint service of the three major credit reporting companies that allows all consumers to check their credit for free as part of the FACT Act. Even if you’re not comfortable transmitting a lot of personal information like Social Security and credit card numbers over the Internet, there’s info on how you can phone or mail in your request.
I like to request these credit reports just for my own amusement, but sometimes you may notice a forgotten account or a mistake in your file. This is also a good time to ask these same companies not to sell/use your personal information for spam.
Those of you who use Blogger have probably already seen this, but if not…
Blogger for Word is a free add-in for Microsoft Word that lets you save a Word document as a post to your Blogger blog with just a few clicks, and without even opening up a browser. Blogger for Word makes it even easier to express yourself online, save your documents to the web, and edit your work both online and off.
With Blogger for Word, publishing a Word document to your blog is just as seamless as saving it to your computer, and it’s easy to get started; all you need to do is download and install the Blogger for Word add-in, and three buttons appear in your Word toolbar:
- Publish creates and publishes a new post from the text in your document.
- Open Post enables you to edit your last 15 Blogger posts in Word.
- Save as Draft enables you to keep a post unpublished; it will appear in your Blogger account, but not publicly on your blog.
Seems like this might be a good way to avoid those “Blogger ate my post” situations that used to drive me crazy. Though I still think it’s better to fire up the lightweight Bloggar for all your blogging needs.
At the passenger unloading curb, I pulled all my Kiwi money out of my wallet and shoved it into my sister’s hands, figuring I wouldn’t need it anymore. Wrong! Apparently you have to pay New Zealand $25 or they won’t let you leave. Those bastards. I charged this one last expense to my AmEx, knowing full well I was getting shafted by their exchange rate.
I received this phishing email yesterday:
It looks like an official email. I actually clicked the link, but Eudora alerted me that the URL I was clicking on was different from the one listed. That didn’t throw up any red flags because lots of companies use third party emailers, but for whatever reason, I decided not to continue on and just typed “ebay.com” into my browser. It was only then that it occurred to me that this might be a fake email. Some signs:
Careful out there.