Filed under: Business, Design, World wide web, Office, Productivity, Google

A lot of desktop word processing and text editing apps feature templates you can use to jazz up your documents — or make them look terrible, depending on your view. Now Google Docs gives you the same option, with a new template gallery. There are over 300 templates, featuring everything from resumés to cards to calendars.

The selection of different templates is impressively versatile. Expense reports, presentations, invitations — it’s all there. Styles range from minimal (basic blue bars) to ostentatious (robots!). Something that immediately struck us as clever is the selection the Avery Dennison-sponsored themes, so you can print to those Avery labels and business cards that every office seems to be up to its ears in. If you use templates in your desktop writing app of choice, you’ll probably also find a use for them in Google docs. Although the designs are hit or miss, there are enough of them that you should be able to find what you’re looking for.

[via Lifehacker]

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A lot of desktop word processing and text editing apps feature templates you can use to jazz up your documents — or make them look terrible, depending on your view. Now Google Docs gives you the same option, with a new template gallery. There are over 300 templates, featuring everything from resum

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Filed under: Productivity, P2P, Social Software, Search

Attention, law-abiding citizens! If you believe in BitTorrent as a means of distribution for huge files, but you’re concerned about the claims of piracy that are often associated with it, you should take a look at YouTorrent. Despite having to shut down for a while because of legal issues, YouTorrent is back in operation, with a reported 67,170 torrents that are all legal to share.

YouTorrent is a meta-search that can find verified torrents across a number of popular torrent sites, including Jamendo, Vuze, BitTorrent, Legaltorrents, Legittorrents, Gameupdates, Wortharchiving, BT.etree and Mininova’s featured torrents section. With all those sites combined, you can use YouTorrent to search over 6TB of data. This is a very good thing for the torrent community in general, as it shows how widely BitTorrent is used for non-piracy purposes.

[via TorrentFreak]

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This post is part of a series on celebrity spokespeople who ended up doing serious harm to the brands they were hired to promote, or vice versa. See how we rank the 20 top spokesperson fiascos.

Companies wishing to appeal to sensory-overloaded customers sometimes have to swallow hard and sign edgy spokespersons (I’m looking at you, Pepsi). But what could go wrong for UNICEF Belgium, the local arm of the United Nations Children’s Fund, in adopting the beloved Smurfs as its spokescreatures?

Plenty, it turns out, when the Fund decided to use the Smurfs to shake people out of their complacency about the plight of the soldier children of Africa. To this end, they created an ad that ran (briefly) on Belgian television, showing the air-bombing and destruction of a smurf village, including the collateral blue damage. The tiny azure baby wailing amidst bomb craters and smurf corpses was an especially compelling touch.

Apparently, when the ad ran on Belgian TV during the evening news, it left the audience in smurfy shock. According to a UNICEF Belgium spokesman, controversy was its goal, but the chief reaction to the snufftoon seems to have come from an amazingly huge populace of smurf-haters, who have plastered the video across the Internet. The moral? When you adopt a warm fuzzy spokesthingy, injure it at your own peril.

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