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Welcome to Edutechie.com! If you’re new here, be sure to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I came across an article yesterday that really struck me… apparently Microsoft filed a patent “for a system that can track a workers productivity, physical wellbeing and competence.”  Yeah, this sounds both amazing and scary. 
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Came across this nice how to translate text in microsoft word tutorial (via Lifehacker).  Note:  You do have to have the language pack installed for the language you are trying to translate into…
There are a lot of nice features in the new version of Office.  I had a chance to try out the new [...]

I came across this educational blogging survey (via Blue Skunk Blog).  I highly recommend it!  He promises to publish the results.

As a follow up from my post yesterday about MacWorld and the new MacBook Pro.  Here is a 60 second video of all the important announcements made yesterday.  Good for keeping up to date about what is going on.  Enjoy.

I have obviously always been a fan of Google, but the work they are doing in the mobile device arena is just awesome, particularly with the iPhone.  This morning they announced a new interface that includes interfaces for the calendar, gmail, reader, docs, photo’s, news, and notebook. 
I also have all of these features on [...]

I came across a new service today called drop.io.  It is an online storage type service, but they added a nice voice feature recently that allows people to call in a number and record an unlimited length voice message.  It will then show up as a Mp3 online in a couple of minutes.  Could be [...]

I have been a fan of the gOs for a while, but the most recent announcement of this super small laptop for $399 is just awesome (coming January 20th in Walmart).  I have always wanted a smaller Sony Vaio notebook, but the price tag (usually at lest $1500) was more than I could swallow.  This [...]

Okay, I saw this article this morning and although this technology is probably a long way off for us poor educators, the technology is pretty awesome.  
Japanese manufacturer Matsushita (Panasonic) has signed a deal with Google that will see the company launch flat panel television sets that allow users to access YouTube and other Google services [...]

There are a lot of cool things you can do with databases!  Almost all of our modern webpages use some sort of database backened, and pretty much all good applications need one of some type or another.  Just like the WYSIWIG editor brought HTML editing to the masses, perhaps some tools of the future will bring [...]

With school starting back up again, and a new year, it is a great time to commit yourself to actually getting your schoolwork organized.  Notely.net looks like a likely candidate!  Here is a list of their features:

Calendar
To-Do List
Homework organiser
Manage Courses
Write and Save Notes
Organise Links, Contacts and Files
Keep a Notebook or Lab Book