I have created more than a hundred PowerPoint presentations till date - for new business pitches, for my clients, and for internal office purposes. I love creating my PowerPoints with pictures on every side. Over time, I realize that I have used so many pictures, those I sourced from the Internet and other places and thought was creative and nice, that I wished I had a master folder on my PC containing all those pictures. Then every time I create a new ppt, I can quickly go to that folder, choose a good suitable picture, and use that, instead of going online and searching the photo stock sites. So there will be no more the ‘Ah! I can use that press conference picture on this slide but where did I used that picture before? I have to remember’. This will save so much time.

I needed a software that would search all the PowerPoint files on my computer, and extract the images out of them. After some searches, I found the answer. The solution is called the MS PowerPoint Extract Images From Presentations Software. It is a small file that you can download and easily install. You can load individual ppt files or an entire folder (like the D drive for example) on the tool and it will start opening each ppt file and extract the pictures to a location you specify. Very neat.

The software comes at USD 19.99 for the full functional version license. The unlicensed version just works well also though.

With all the rush and chaos for booking fancy .me domain names since yesterday, I decided to do a quick search on finding some cool words ending with ‘me’. I found two cool tools that will do the work for us.

The first one is More Words. Simply enter ‘*me’ in its search box and it gives you a list of 407 words ending with ‘me’. Examples: time, summertime, slime, overcome, and so on.

The next tool is WordNavigator. On a similar search on the site for words ending with ‘me’, it came out with a list of 647 words.

Now with more domain name extensions coming up, I am sure webmasters and domain name buyers will want to play around with these tools, if they aren’t already.

Out of curiosity, I did a search of words ending with ‘in’ (.in is the India domain extension) on WordNaigator and it threw up a list of 1,148 words. Bin, aborigin, begin, coin, dioxin, wherein, wolfskin, ……anybody interested?

By the way, in case you want to play around more and come up with names like del.icio.us and blo.gs, check this nice domain finder tool.