Yak Shaving -- [MIT AI Lab, after 2000: orig. probably from a Ren & Stimpy episode.] Any seemingly pointless activity which is actually necessary to solve a problem which solves a problem which, several levels of recursion later, solves the real problem you're working on.

#530 Outlook Hack -- You deleted an email in Outlook and then emptied your deleted folder. The email is permantly lost, right? Maybe not. Click on the deleted items folder in the navigation pane. Go to Tools > Recover Deleted Items. Select the item(s) you want to restore to the deleted items folder. Click the restore button and the selected items will be back in the deleted items folder. This trick won't work for every server but when you accidently delete an important email, it may just save the day. (HT: Tech-Recipes) ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦

#531 Firefox Extension -- Firefox extension ScreenGrab lets you save screenshots of web pages by what is visible in your browser window or by scrolling and stitching together the elusive whole page. (HT: LifeHacker)

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#532 MS Word Hack -- Sometimes you need a page to end before Word wants it to. To take back control of your formatting, insert a hard page break which will immediately startsthe next page in your document. The shortcut is: CTRL+ENTER or you can: Click on the Insert Menu, Select Break, Select your type of break (if available) 4. Click OK

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#533 Know Your Fallacies -- Hasty generalization -- the logical fallacy of reaching an inductive generalization based on too little evidence. It commonly involves basing a broad conclusion upon the statistics of a survey of a small group that fails to sufficiently represent the whole population. (Example: "Macrohard sampled 500 liberal non-religious males living in San Francisco regarding the issue of gay marriage in America. Most of them approved, therefore most Americans everywhere must approve of gay marriage": Fallacious because the sample was not diverse enough to accurately generalize the opinions of all Americans.)

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#534 Google School -- Need to know the weather-related conditions including delays at an airport? Simply type in the 3 letter airport code and follow it with the word airport. (Example: DFW airport) (HT: Tech-Recipes)

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