Here’s a simple little concept for the holidays.  You can give custom engraved thumb drives for christmas.  They can contain pictures from the year or even videos and can be a great reminder to your friends and family.  They can keep it with their ornaments, hand it on the tree and use it as a type of hangin photo album. 

Just grab it off the tree, plug it into a laptop and look back over the events of that year.  Flash drives are endlessly useful, and this is just another way to give a flash drive a little more purpose.  This is one of those things that you need to plan for a bit, so before you send out that christmas ornament or printed picture postcard, think about dropping in some of your best pictures from the entire year and sending that with a note inscribed.

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Questia is an online research and citation tool supported by a virtual library of scanned and indexed books and articles.

Students, educators, researchers and publishers can access Questia through a subscription and search the companies online database of digital content. When a user find content that they would like to cite, they can then highlight the phrase, sentence or paragraph and copy it to their document.

Questia will automatically create the appropriate footnotes or bibliography entry according to the rules and conventions of seven different citation styles:

1. MLA (Modern Language Association)
2. APA (American Psychological Association)
3. ASA (American Sociological Association)
4. Chicago Manual of Style, One
5. Chicago Manual of Style, Two
6. Turabian Bibliographic Style
7. Turabian Reference List Style

The service offers monthly quarterly and yearly services and can enable research virtually without having to set foot in a library. I’ve used software in the past that made citation work easier, but I have not come across a comprehensive system that also provides the Questia Online Library includes more than 60,000 full text books.

Its this combination of research at your finger tips combined with easy and accurate citation tools that makes this a very useful online tool.

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If you are looking to pick up a Microsoft Zune and you’re not sure where to go, here’ an offer from J&R for a Microsoft Zune for $249.99 (the going rate for this device just released and all.)

Zune 30GB Digital Media Player ( Black ) - $249.99 

For us early adopters picking something up at the list price is actually a bit of a bargain.  To really get your hands on something when it just hit the shelves, you sometimes have to pay a premium on the device, which always seems crazy to the bargain hunters out there. 

Bargain hunters are rarely early adopters however, usually waiting, obviously, for the price to come down! 

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