Traditional photo albums and greeting cards are a nice way to share your digital photos. But if you want to have a little fun with your images, check out Comic Life. It allows you to create your very own comic--complete with panels, special fonts, and word balloons--from your photo collection. You can share the finished result online, print it at home, or send it to a professional printer.

This Excel add-in puts all of these options, and many more, on a new Excel ribbon. This pull-down menu-filled ribbon is a bit crowded, but you can make your favorite tools more accessible. The first item on that ribbon is a configurable pull-down menu called "My favorite tools."