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By now you've likely heard that Microsoft has a cloud version of Office, called Office 365, that you pay for on subscription either monthly or annually.

Office 365 is a little unusual in that it is cloud software and you install it on your PC, to give you the best of all worlds. As you keep you paying for it, Microsoft automatically adds cool new features.

We asked Microsoft to send us a list of the best new things you could do with the software that most people didn't know it could do.

Multiple people can edit the same document at once

Everyone can edit a document at the same time in Word, PowerPoint or Excel. You can see the changes as they make them and who is doing the editing.

No more emailing attachments. Everyone can just pile on and work at once.

By the way, while this feature is new for Office 365, it's not unique to Microsoft. Google Apps offers the same. But the first time you see it in action, it's wild.

Skype with co-workers while working on a document

In the coming weeks, Microsoft will be rolling out a feature that lets you simply click a "Chat" button to begin chatting with everyone working in the document over Skype.

Even if you leave the Office document, you'll be able to continue the conversation via Skype on your desktop or phone, so can keep talking to the team as they make edits.

Link to files, don't attach them

If your company uses a business edition of Office 365, here's a nifty trick for sharing a file. Upload your file to Office 365's cloud storage. Fire up the cloud version of Outlook (known as Outlook Web App) and, instead of attaching a file, link to the file on your cloud.

This isn't unique to Office 365 — all cloud storage services allow you share documents via links. But Outlook will automatically grant edit permission to the people you are emailing. (You can change their permissions, too.)

This set of videos shows the impact of water drops on the surface of granular particles—a phenomenon that is likely familiar to all of us who have watched raindrops splashing in a backyard or on a beach. The high-speed photography reveals the detailed liquid-drop impact dynamics at various impact velocities. Such information allows us to construct a simple model for describing the morphology of raindrop imprints in a granular bed. Surprisingly, we found that liquid-drop impact cratering follows the same energy scaling and reproduces the same crater morphology as that of catastrophic asteroid impact cratering.

[APS Physics]

Yep, totally accurate.

[Source: Wrong Hands – John Atkinson]

The Beholder | Source: imgur.com

This fun collection of hats has something for everyone, men, women, kids and infants. Like a cool umbrella can minimize the gloom of a rainy day, these warm and funny knits have potential to reduce the sting of the coldest winter.

See the entire collection here. 

Source: Etsy.com


Cthulhu Ski Hat | Source: Etsy.com

Source: drgibbs.deviantart.com

Source: Etsy.com

Fox Cowl | Source: ravelry.com

Source: beardowear.com

Source: Etsy.com

OK, now WHO ordered this with mushrooms? You KNOW I can’t eat those!!!

(Boing! Boing!!)

The director Warner Bros. brought on to work on a Minecraft film has left the project, after Mojang shot down his idea for the film, which he called an adventure reminiscent of 1985's The Goonies.

"How might this ever be a story for a movie?" Shawn Levy, director of Night at the Museum, explained rhetorically to The Wall Street Journal. "Because it's not a narrative game. And we came up with an approach that felt good to us, and I discussed it with Mojang."

He told the Journal that his idea wasn't necessarily a comedy but "It had a bit of a Goonies flair. ... It was an adventure movie, and I thought it could have been a lot of fun and fulfilled a lot of the qualities that people love about the game."

Mojang didn't see it that way,...

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