The Rubik’s TouchCube brings the fun and challenge of the original Rubik’s Cube to the 21’s century. Using a grid of 45 LED backlit light squares, you can perform every action you could with the original cube, but with no moving parts. And in my case, no stickers or plastic blocks to take apart to get it to work again.

Even if you’re not playing with the new Rubik’s TouchCube and it’s just sitting on a shelf or table, its a great looking piece of modern pop-culture to enjoy.

I’m not really asking for much this Christmas, but if Santa wanted to leave one of these in my stockings, I might give him some extra cookies and milk in exchange. Just sayin’.

Keeping up with the times as well, you can also now follow Rubik’s TouchCube on twitter as well.

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The New Rubik’s Touchcube

The problem though is that we’re both still using Excel. We’ll copy the Google Spreadsheets down to our local drive if we need to make any major changes to it, or more frequently I’ll manipulate the data I need in Excel and then paste it into the Google Spreadsheets online. Excel is just easier to use in my opinion, and it’s more robust obviously without losing too much in ease of use for some of those robust but basic features.

How many of you are actually using Google Spreadsheets as a significant portion of your work day? What are your challenges? Is it fulfilling it’s core purpose with your activities?

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Google Spreadsheets Update

Let’s just say I needed more than a minute.

With the new ribbon interface, I knew exactly where to go to get things done, but actually accomplishing the task was a little harder.

I’ve done this type of thing before with Word and it wasn’t too hard. It sometimes took me a few minutes to remember how to print different names on all the labels instead of the same name on all the labels, but I’d figure it out. I got to that point with Word 2007 and did everything as needed. Everything seemed good.

The biggest challenge though is when it prepared the document to allow me to start entering names, it didn’t display any of the label margins or guidelines to give me an idea of where to start typing. It all looked like one large, blank piece of white paper. I finally was able to just start typing text, copying the text, then pasting it into the different areas after finding each section by tabbing through. That seemed too convoluted to me though.

Isn’t there a way to show the label borders and guidelines for where to start typing text? Let me know if you figure it out.

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Printing Labels

Here’s a recap of some of the information I received via e-mail with my beta invitation, just in case someone else didn’t get it.

BUG REPORTS
When you encounter bugs, please file them by clicking Submit a Bug from the website’s left navigation bar. For information on how to file a good bug and how to check on the status of bugs you have filed, see the Frequently Asked Questions along the website’s left navigation bar. Please submit only those bugs that you find in Office “12″ products.

SUPPORT
We are using newsgroups as the primary source of support for the Office “12″ Technical Beta. Private newsgroups are accessed from a dedicated news server using your Beta ID and a Password. If you do not already have a password, you can create a newsgroup password on, under the “Modify Your Info/Modify Newsgroup Login Info” tab along the top of the screen.

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Support for Beta Users