The other day, my girlfriend’s brother wanted me to make him some address and shipping labels for his new Thai restaurant. Well, I didn’t want to pay taxes, I found a good site on Google called World Label. They got pretty good prices, much better than getting them at your OfficeDepot or OfficeMax. Since they are based in New York, I didn’t have to pay taxes (I am California) or pay the overpriced retail prices. Since the matter wasn’t urgent, I figured it’d be a good go.
You should check out their Generic Avery labels and Shipping Labels, the prices are much better than your local retail shop. World Label also has many other interesting labels such as the CD/DVD Labels or Starburst Labels, which I might use in the near future.

Why do you ask? I never buy anything retail or at least at retail prices. There are so many great online stores you can visit, why bother even wasting your gas? Especially books, I saved a bunch of money by becoming an Amazon affiliate and buying it from myself. (Although I think their ToS says not to, I figure I couldn’t get caught in their gigantic system. Besides, I am not making any money being an Amazon affiliate.) Amazon has a great discount on books even if you are not an affiliate, it’s 25-30% cheaper than buying from your local Borders or Barnes & Noble.

Well, the point of the story is that I did try to use Microsoft Word to make the labels but I encountered a problem. Most of the time when I make labels, I usually end up spending 5 hours trying to align my address to the labels. It’s a big headache even if I think about it. I did used to use a label machine but that was at my old job and I was stuck with my good ol’ HP Deskjet F380.

The greatest part about this experience is that the labels I bought from World Label also provides free templates for all the labels they sell. I did try to download it from the Avery site, but they make you register and you know how I hate to put any personal information on any site or even bother registering.

Anyways, here’s how you can make Avery Labels and Shipping Labels in a whopping 30 seconds!

1) Download the free Avery Label template = 5 seconds.

2) Open up the template in Microsoft Word = 5 seconds.

3) Type in the address, then copy & paste to all the 36 label spots = 20 seconds.

4) Hit the print button! (Okay, we didn’t include the time to print since you can do other things while it’s printing.)

I like to save a lot of time when I do stuff, and these free templates just saved me like 5 hours of stupid alignment work. I wonder who’s behind the company, they did a great job of making these labels and save me a bunch of time. (Will they send me a sample? Lol…everytime I add this line, I get free stuff, isn’t that crazy?)

Maybe you can bookmark this post for your next label printing time and make sure to subscribe to Zedomax for more little DIYs that will save you time around the office.

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This heavy duty segway features like 6 car rims, which probably slows it down but innovative.

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And check out this Segway Centaur, it’s the shi*!

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This video shows how vulnerable an RFID credit card is because it’s not very well encrypted signals. I am sure the makers of RFID credit cards will change this soon but until then, make sure to keep your RFID credit cards in your metal business case or an Altoids can. Great thing, I am still old-school and haven’t used an RFID credit card.[via] Consumerist

Today, I was going to goto my GoogleDocs to edit a new Press Release for our new Beer Stock Market system on SiteHoppin. (Btw, I am on break today, so don’t shoot me for not having any gadget or DIY posts)

Here’s a fun experiment you can do for today. Go to Google and type “Googledoc” and you will see bunch of sites showing you how to use Googledoc. I guess the official name is GoogleDocs, but shouldn’t GoogleDocs show up first on Google for GoogleDoc?

Even funnier, I did type Googledoc.com AND Googledocs.com on my Browser window before even trying to search for GoogleDoc on Google.  Those two domains were like the worst web pages ever, well like a link farm or a spam site really.

Well, my opinion is that Google should at least buy those two domains for helping lazy people like me who don’t want to take 4 steps to finding GoogleDocs.  I mean, I thought they had couple bees in their bank?!?

Well, the final say is up to you but I had to re-type, “GoogleDocs” to find GoogleDocs.  What a day, I just wasted 20 minutes of my time doing that and also telling you about it.

Better yet, we will make this into our own little experiment and see if we can show up on the first page of Google for “GoogleDoc”, that’s some serious traffic we might get.

Cheers and have a great weekend everybody. (well, i did take my weekend today since I’ve worked straight through the weekend for about last 2 months…)

Hi all,I’ve been busy building this “online stock” market over at SiteHoppin.com.

Go check it out as we just launched it…and I need some rest from 5 straight days of ridiculous coding…

SiteHoppin Beer Stocks are “internet stocks”, we call IUVC (Internet User Venture Capital), that allow you to buy into our new company without having to invest millions, unlike Venture Capital.

Basically, when you buy Beer Stocks, you become co-owners of SiteHoppin.com. We probably won’t let you run the site, but we are giving every internet user an opportunity to invest in one of the fastest growing web sites on the internet.

You can read more about it on our Beer Stocks FAQ.

I was site hoppin’ over at Gizmodo today and for some reason their posts were down but I had the pleasure of watching their flash ad.

Hope you enjoy and why are all computer dealers/manufacturers still shipping their PCs and laptops with Vista installed? At least let the people have an option to have XP pre-installed. (Yes, that means you Dell, HP, Compaq, Sony, etc…etc… why are you guys so dumb and promote a “dumb” Vista? Yes, you guys probably make way too much money to actually care about people. Stop hiding in your stupid looking grey suits and respond to me you dumbasses!)