1. Outlook 2007, released next month, will stop using Internet Explorer to render HTML emails and instead use the crippled Microsoft Word rendering engine.
2. For those RFID cards in your wallet, Elecom intros skim prevention kit for wallet, cellphone.
3. Taschen reproduction of Jean Baptiste Marc Bourger's Atlas of Human Anatomy and Surgery, the seminal text finally published in 1854. This is a gigantic, heavy tome -- 15.5 lbs and 19.2" x 12.6" x 3.5" -- and it's the kind of thing that you want to lay open on a table in front of you and dive into.
4. A 400 page Casper the Friendly Ghost comic book anthology, to be published by Dark Horse, is coming in April.
5. Ask MeFi: How can I lock Firefox open in fullscreen mode so that unless you do some hotkey, no one can get at anything else (including Ctrl-Alt-Del and Alt-Tab).
6. Ask MeFi: My "garbage disposal" is all gunked up. How do I clean it?
7. Task scheduler Xecutor manages scripts and programs set to start automatically when you boot up, during the day or when you shut down on your PC.
8. Digitize paper documents by faxing yourself.
9. Create 12 new habits by committing to one new habit a month throughout the year. The key to developing new habits is to make them trackable actions. For example, instead of resolving to "drink more water," instead start drinking two quarts of water a day - a specific and measurable goal.
