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Google Docs redesigns toolbar, adds colored labels

Google Docs colored labelsGoogle has rolled out two new features for Google Docs, the company's online word processing application. The first is a new improved menu toolbar. Well, improved might be a subject term. To be perfectly honest, it doesn't appear to add a whole lot of new features. But it looks far more like the menu toolbar you'd expect to find in a desktop application, complete with File, Edit, Insert, Format, Tools, and Table options.

Google has also added the ability to select colors for your labels/folders. This is a feature that Google added to Gmail a few months ago. And we have to say, it's one of those features you didn't necessarily know you needed until you have it and then it's hard to imagine life without it.

If you use Google Docs regularly, these two features, particularly the colored labels could make life a lot easier. But as much as we love us some free Google office applications, we have to say, Zoho Writer still blows Google Docs away in a feature by feature comparison.

[via Google Operating System and... Google Operating System]

Filed under: Internet, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Productivity, Mozilla, Freeware

Tiny Menu: Save Firefox screen real estate

Tiny Menu the Firefox extension
Exactly as its name implies, the Tiny Menu extension allows you to compress your entire Firefox menu bar into one item. And, thanks to a recent update, that item is now even smaller. Setting up Tiny Menu isn't entirely intuitive, so I'll outline the steps to save you a bit of time:
  1. Download and install Tiny Menu (don't forget to restart Firefox)
  2. Click your 'new' menu (the M) and then select View > Toolbars > Customize...
  3. One at a time (not that you have a choice) drag the items from your Navigation Toolbar into your menu bar until there's nothing left in the Navigation Toolbar
  4. Click Done to return to the main Firefox window
  5. Again, click your new menu and this time choose View > Toolbars > and then uncheck the Navigation Toolbar
  6. Bask in the glory of your newly free pixels

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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