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Here's an easy way to download images from Bing -

1. Open Bing in Firefox.
2. Right-click on the page and click View Page Info. This opens the Page Info box.
3. Select the Media tab. You will find all the media files here. Once you get the image, hit the 'Save As' button to save the image.

This is same as the tip to download images from Flickr.
Enjoy!

Do you share pictures online? Then you surely must be concerned about someone else using your images without giving credits. That is why its a good idea to watermark images before sharing them online. And here is a free and easy online tool.

PicMarkr is website that lets you add a custom watermark to images. It allows to upload images from your computer, Flickr, Facebook or Picasa accounts. You can choose to add a text watermark, image watermark or tiled watermark.
Best of all, its free!

More:
How to Watermark Video Files

The different images displayed on Bing's homepage is quite refreshing. And I doubt anyone out there would want to block them. But anyway, here's how you can do it.
Just add ?rb=0 to the Bing url. So it should be -

http://bing.com/?rb=0

With this url, Bing won't load the image.
Off course, I won't be doing it! It looks dull without those images.
Enjoy!

Mac users will be aware of two-finger scrolling for laptop touchpads. Here's one for Windows laptops. Two-Finger-Scroll is a project that lets Windows users to easily scroll a page up or down using two fingers simultaneously on their Synaptics TouchPads.

Currently supported gestures are are -
Two finger scrolling - scroll vertically by sliding two fingers anywhere on the TouchPad.
Two finger tapping - tap with two fingers to simulate a selected mouse button.

Note - I was unable to test this program as I didn't have a laptop at the time of writing this.
Hope you find this useful.

Free OCR provides a really easy way to get text from an image. Just upload your image and the website extracts the text portions from the image. The extracted text can be copied. It did a decent job when I tested it; about 80-85% of the text was correctly extracted.

Free OCR has a few limitations though-
It only accepts PDF, JPG, GIF, TIFF and BMP files. You cannot use it for files greater than 2 MB in size. Images cannot be wider or higher than 5000 pixels. A limit of 10 images per hour also applies.

Off course, as the name suggests, its free!

If you have a folder with many Word documents, this tip will come in handy, especially when you don't remember which file had the contents.

1. Open Microsoft Word.
2. Go to File >> Open. Navigate to the directory which has the word documents.
3. Select 'Preview' from the Views dropdown menu in the top-right of the dialog box. (See image below)

4. Select a word file from the directory. You can see the preview in the right pane without the need to open the file.

Here's a nice tool to quickly open the Command prompt for the current directory in Windows, with a right-click. The program is a shell extension for Windows that creates a "Open Command Prompt" in the right-click context menu.

Big Huge Labs lets you add a calender to your wallpaper. Just upload your wallpaper image, specify calender month, position etc and hit the create button. A new image is generated which contains the calender.

Since the embedded calender itself is a part of the image, there is no need to install any application. Off course, you'll miss features that a calender application provides.
This can be pretty handy in offices where you aren't allowed to install software of view the Windows calender(some offices don't allow users to change the date).

Since the site allows you to only add one month at a time, it would be a good idea to embed for the next few months a well.