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How to Make a Printable Booklet with Microsoft Word

by on March 30, 2011


Booklets printed on both sides of standard 8.5-by-11-inch paper, with a single fold in the middle, are useful for so many occasions, such as a program for a school play, graduation or bar mitzvah. Microsoft Office Word 2007 has built in booklet printing that makes it easy. For an illustrated guide and step-by-step video, read Microsoft’s how-to article.

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Free Font Utilities

by on March 31, 2009


Although both Windows and Mac have built-in font viewers, there are quite a few utilities that do a better job, many of them free. I like Font Picker, a free download that runs on Adobe Air for both Mac and Windows. For more typography tools, read Lifehacker .

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How to Create Wall Murals

January 2, 2008

Rasterbator is a free service that creates huge mural-size images from any picture. Simply upload an image, and then download and print the resulting multi-page PDF. Re-assemble the pages and you will have an extremely cool looking poster that can be as tall as sixty-five feet. If your original image is more than a megabyte [...]

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Photo CD Cover

June 22, 2006

Got photos? Got CDs? How about creating a cool CD cover from your own photos? This fun tool from Flagrant Disregard will create a personalized, printable page that integrates your photo and text into a CD or DVD cover that you simply print, cut, and fold. You can upload a photo from your own computer, [...]

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Saving Paper

May 13, 2003

Instead of throwing away printer paper that’s only printed on one side, stack it next to your printer and use it for rough drafts. Another way to save paper is to print two pages on a single sheet of paper. For Windows instructions, read this. Or for Mac, try this.

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Iron On T-Shirt Transfers

May 6, 2003

If you have an ink-jet printer, you can create one-of-a-kind t-shirts with iron-on transfers, which cost about $11 for a package of six sheets. You can use any graphics software to make your design, but Hanes offers a free software download just for t-shirt design called Hanes T-Shirt Maker Lite.

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