Follow-up: More ways to shrink Office documents
Last night, I made a post about shrinking Powerpoints without any special software. Today I was saving a Word document and noticed the “Tools” menu, clicked it and saw … wait for it …
Compress Pictures!
This is an even simpler method for reducing Microsoft Office document sizes. Once you click “Compress Pictures,” you can choose the level of compression (printed or screen / web), and whether to delete cropped areas of pictures or not. You still have the original image, right?
The only thing left is to make this the default option during Office setup; If it’s possible, you’ll see it here. Please comment if you experience success with this tip 
Joel
Edit: Found another awesome resource for reducing Office Document file sizes: University of Queensland “Ask IT” page (they also have the same information in .PDF handout format)
Setup a Windows XP Administration Workstation
From Digg:
Tips for setting up a Windows XP Pro computer to perform administrative tasks on a MS windows network. Links to downloads of the tools you’ll need.
I love it when I come across another great blog. Thanks Rob Durkin!
Google Spreadsheets invites using chat feature
I signed up for an invitation to the new Google Spreadsheets beta, and it only took about a day for the invite to arrive. I played around with it, saw some cool features, but wanted to show my friend what it was like. I couldn’t see any “Invite” button or functionality in the application, but I did see a “Share this Spreadsheet” link at the top-right.
Clicking the link opens an invitation sidebar that allows you to invite others to read or edit the document:
You can only invite users who have Google Accounts, but hey: who doesn’t have one by now? As soon as the invited user opens the spreadsheet, the sharing section changes:
Clicking “Chat with …” displays a sidebar allowing the spreadsheet’s users to chat while editing the spreadsheet, all in real-time.
Keep up the suprises, Google