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This is, for me, the "Ultimate Syncing Solution" and I've found it. It allows me to do the following things:

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I just got a new PDA phone, an Alltel HTC 6800, and this has prompted a re-evaluation of how I use the Internet, email, and calendaring solutions in this Web 2.0 data-enabled world. The concept of "syncing in the clouds" where data is available online, on the desktop, and on the mobile device in a format that is optimized for each environment (i.e. rich client on the desktop, rich web client, and easy-to-use mobile version) holds tremendous potential (and frustration at times). There are various Web 2.0 companies that provide multiple pieces of my ultimate productivity suite, (Zoho is a great example), but Google and Microsoft are the only ones that offer integrated solutions. My brother has been a long-time proponent of Microsoft's solutions, but I think they have been playing catch-up to the rest, Google especially, but MS seems like they may be clueing into things lately.From my experience here is how the Google-MS office/productivity/collaboration tools offering compares:

Sometimes you wonder where you have been for the last year. I just read several posts about Google Co-op and the ability to create a customizable search engine. What a find! Doesn't this sound like exactly the type of education tool we want. The ability to teach search strategies while only searching a set of reviewed websites.

If you haven't heard of Google Co-op it bears a look at. I'm having visions of teaching teachers how to build custom search engines prior to major projects and then embedding the link to that search engine (or even the search engine itself) in a teacher's Moodle course. That way the students can leverage going to the same site they always visit in Moodle and use the teachers custom search engine.