In Microsoft Excel you can use formating tools like colors, text alignment, font styles and many more to make your sheets look nicer and more transparent.
Power Search was a real useful feature and there is now good reason why Apple decided to ditch/hide in iTunes version 11. But luckily you can bring it back quite easily. Check it out.
Google Chrome has a handy function where you can just paste an url or search term and you will go straight to the page or get the Google search results.