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I have been publishing too many shared items and not enough individual posts… so in an efforts to lighten things up, I am going to try posting some short posts so y’all don’t get too bored!
I have long been a HUGE fan of OneNote.  It may be one of the most under utilized tools for [...]

Just read an article this morning that tomorrow Bill Gates is going to annouce that microsoft is going to make their development software free to college and university students!  That is great!
“Covered software includes Visual Studio Professional Edition, XNA Game
Studio, Expression Studio, SQL Server and Windows Server.”

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. 
From the article:
The Microsoft patent details a “unique monitoring system” that includes wireless sensors that read “heart rate, galvanic [...]

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 heard about SharePoint last year as a way to share content among each other. I know we have a campus agreement with Microsoft right now and as far as I know, all we need to do is enable this option on our servers. I am hoping that if I know more about [...]

The hype building up to the June 29th release of the iPhone is just staggering. Steve Jobs predicted that the iPhone will revolutionize and/or reinvent the phone in his Mac World Expo keynote speech. With educators already using cell phones and iPod’s in the classroom, how will this new device impact education? What new ‘revolutionary’ [...]

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article about some of the new features available in Vista for Education.  Today I finally found some time to test out one of those features, Window’s Meeting Place.  This article reviews the features, pro’s, con’s and possible educational uses of the program.
Features:

Users – A complete list [...]

“Memex” is a device that records everything to do… literally EVERYTHNG.  Video, audio, temperature, weather, what programs you are using on your computer… EVERYTHING.  It is a virtual memory of types. 
My Introduction to Memex
I first heard about this intriguing device about six months ago in a lecture given by John Oberlin (Associate Chancellor of [...]

This afternoon I went to a meeting of the techie minds here on campus to discuss the implementation of Vista. There were quite a few people that acted like the implementation of Vista was a terrible, but necessary evil. A lot of the discussion focused around the new Office 2007 suite. From [...]