Copy Excel Selection as a Picture
Want to show someone a chunk of an Excel spreadsheet via email or iChat? You could take a screenshot, but if you want to show just a portion of the Excel window and you don't use a utility like Snapz Pro, you can do this right from within Excel 2008. Make a selection, hold down the Shift key, and choose Copy Picture from the Edit menu. You can select whether the selection will be rendered as though it was shown on screen or as though it was printed. Then just switch to your desired destination and paste.
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Sprint Offers Unmetered Mobile Calling
Cellular carriers are desperate to keep customers, because the cost of marketing and the expenses of churn - a customer signing up and later leaving - are so high that the telcos can afford to give away a lot in exchange for loyalty and regular subscription fees.
Sprint's the latest to offer another twist on current unmetered plans, plans that don't limit your minutes, texting/MMS, or data use. The new "Any Mobile, Anytime" plans allow calls to and from any mobile telephone in the United States without dipping into a pool of minutes. Landline calls still extract minutes, inbound and outbound. A 450-minute plan is $70 per month; 900 minutes costs $90 per month.
All four major U.S. carriers now have $100-per-month subscription offerings that allow unmetered calling to any U.S. telephone numbers. Sprint's fee at that level also includes data and SMS/MMS; Verizon charges $140 per month for the same package.
AT&T has an unmetered voice plan for $100 per month, including for the iPhone, and separately offers no-limit text and data plans for $20 and $30 per month, respectively. T-Mobile includes texting in its $100-per-month unmetered plan; the company has $20 to $30 per month charges for packages of Wi-Fi and 2G or 3G data.
Sprint's offer makes the most sense for younger folk who mostly call others who have cell phones. The $90 plan with 900 minutes saves just $10 per month, but that's still $120 per year if you need some but not a huge amount of outbound landline minutes.
(I use the term unmetered, because all plans have restrictions that prevent them from meeting a definition of unlimited.)
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