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I love the LifeHacker blog and constantly looking for new tools to make my life easier/quicker/smarter….. I never have time to post about all of them but I thought I’d post a few that I’m interested in having a play with right now!

If you’ve played with any of these, do let me know I’d love to hear your opinions (and save me the time of playing with something that is completely useless!!).

• You know that annoying rectangle thing you get around icons in Windows when you drag and drop, that won’t disappear and just gets on your nerves until you reboot?
  Focus Rectangle Remover (catchy title!) is all I need to say!
• Editra is another text editor, I’m a Textpad addict, but this looks like it might be worth having a play with.
• HearWho, will convert text into an MP3 to dump on your iPod, not sure why I might need it - but you never know!
• Step away from the machine, that’s right sir, right away - your eyes need a break! Get EyeDefender.
• Universal Viewer (ATViewier) sounds perfect for streaming through tonnes of files in a directory to see what’s in them!
• Twitula - A smartphone version of Twitter sounds quite useful, you could use it to follow me!
• Phantasmagoria looks quite good for messing with photos!

photo credit: HVargas

How often have you found someone who has saved something in that blasted new Word 2007 default format of .DOCX?

Technix Update explains how to change the default file format to .DOC in Word 2007!

Why?

After the recent post about Orange, it seems that details of the new data plans are available from coolsmartphone.com and that the HTC Diamond will be available on July 14th.…..

I’ve just ordered one myself as a backup in case my faithful Netgear DG834G ever dies (or anyone of the the ones I’ve installed for family for that matter!!).

Digidave.co.uk (my wife thought I was joking when I told her the name of the site!), is getting rid of some wireless routers for nothing - all you need do is pay the postage (£10 on the one I bought!).

A colleague asked me if this was possible the other day, to take photo stills from say a film  (in his case of diving) and have them to put on say Facebook.

I couldn’t find what I used last time I did it, but did find this and have been reliably informed that it works, it produced an image of about 1MB (I didn’t check the resolution) - I’ve got a few that I’d like to extract so will give it a go when I get a chance!

Jake Luddington’s Guide to extract still images from DVD video.

This looks interesting… The EEE Desktop PC, I know I haven’t posted since I got my ASUS EEE laptop but a proper post about that is coming soon!