Simplest Solutions
They say sometimes its the simplest things in life that get over looked. This goes from personal issues to mechanical problems. I once retorted to this adage with, " That's because when the problem is so small only one person can see them at a time." My retort means maybe you are the problem and you can't see it or the problem is all in your head. Either way paying attention to the details is often more important then the big picture. Like maybe the reason you are an alcoholic isn't because you are bored and have no life goals but maybe its cause you don't know how to tell your friends no when they offer to buy you a drink. The cycle of depression then becomes self propelled and you end up in a ditch. I've gone through that and I finally said no and I'm better for it. On another level I work technical support and one of the first things I ask people when trouble shooting is, "Did you plug it in, is the power on, are the cords connected tightly." Cause its often these little things that create the biggest problems. Now my personal one that I have to share was because I searched the web for 2 hours and then figured out the problem on was I wasn't paying attention to a tiny detail. The problem was: the DVD rom drive on won't read a DVD I just burned in the burner. It was a Data disc so I kept thinking the problem was that I wasn't finalizing the disc. I used Nero, deepburner, burn4free, and then Ulead Burn Now. Burn Now gave me the option of closing my session right there in the burn process. I know it is somewhere in Nero but I never found it. Well before my last burn I finally did a information test on my DVD rom drive and turns out it only reads CD CD-RW DVD & DVD-R and my burner reads and writes everything but DVD-RAM. So I look on the box and turns out I was using DVD+R and my computer wouldn't read it. Something this small was driving me nuts and if I just slowed down and looked at the details I would have seen the problem.

Power Point 2 PDF 2 JPG
I just figured this tip out after reading a few posts that didn't tell me how to do this in batch mode. But here it goes. To save or extract images from Power Point save the show as a PDF, you may need the full version of Acrobat. Then in Adobe go to advanced and then extract all images to jpg. It that easy and it maintains most of the image quality. Other sites say you should edit each image in MS Photo Editor but that is one at a time but is suppose to maintain original quality.

DoublePics: Freeware Fuzzy Image Search
If you collect images off the web this is a necessary program. It will allows you to search an entire hard drive for images close to that same. Yes this included different images sizes to remove thumbnails, and even slight changes in the image like facing left and facing right. If the Images are close enough this program will help you find them and then you can save space on you hard drive by deleting the ones you don't need. This program is shareware so the option to delete from within the program is disabled. Now the fix is right click the image and open in a new application, then delete the duplicate. This will take more time but its just a tip. Comparable freeware is D'peg! - The Duplicate Media Manager but its buggy with huge collections, worked best with a few hundred rather than the few thousand that Doublepics was able to take. Also there is Thumbsplus, a payware, has a fuzzy search feature that works only in a folder at a time.