Cool Feature - Gmail canned responses

I tend to send out a lot of "how to" emails and many of them are exactly the same. One of the ways I get around the monotony of typing the same set of directions over and over is by using the "canned response" feature in Gmail. It allows me to create a really detailed and well worded set of directions once, and use it as many times as I need in the future without having to search.

Step One: Turned on Canned Responses

• Click the gear icon at the top of any Gmail page. From there, select Mail settings
  
• Select Labs
• Enable Canned Responses
• Click Save Changes at the bottom of the page

Step Two: Create Canned Response

• Select Mail
• Click  Compose
• Create your canned response
• Select Canned responses > New canned response
• Choose a name for your canned response and click OK

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3-D Printer - For home use?

I just watched this video on CNN:



I've seen a lot of my friends in animation post cool 3-D printing links but I don't think it ever dawned on me that I could use this technology at home. Custom shoes, what?! They can't be comfortable...but they sure do look sexy.

Skype is Making Trouble for Excel

We've gotten a few tickets over the last week with users reporting that they can't copy and paste formulas in Excel 2010 anymore. After doing a bit of research, it seems there's a bug with the Skype Click to Call application that is causing this. Skype has yet to push out a fix for this, so the current solution is to uninstall Click to Call. It's actually separate from Skype, so you can just go to add/remove programs and uninstall it on it's own. 

None of my users had the problem in Word but I did see on a few forums that some folks were reporting the problem in Word as well.