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The Netflix App for Android devices has finally received a face lift! The lists of titles for viewing has been dramatically increased, the user interface has been greatly improved with short cuts and new features, and things have been moved around to be more user friendly and easier to navigate.

If you are student and your school does not use Microsoft's online productivity suite Office 365 for Education, your time has come and you will be able to get a 4 year subscription to the service for only $79.99. If you consider that you get all of the standard Office products like Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access this is really a nice bargain. The Office 365 for Education online services are used by over 22 million students already. This University edition will also be available to faculty and staff, but it's not clear if they will be able to renew the license after four years like students can (but only once).

One of the hottest topics last month at the IFA trade show in Berlin was certainly the new 4K technology. It's not some kind of out-of-this world technology, it's just the next step in increasing resolution and reaching around 4,000x2,000 to 4,000x3,000. The devices with this resolution are still very rare, and are expected to be presented in more detail at the 2013 International CES annual consumer technology show [We will be covering this show again and hope to get you more information]. This week CEA (Consumers Electronics Association) announced that 4K will be known as Ultra High-Definition, or simply Ultra HD.

High quality self-recording of Point Of View (POV) events has largely been something that is out of the realm of the average consumer. Typical video cameras aren't steady enough, and are too bulky for such uses. Smaller devices, until recent years, haven't been able to easily provide the resolution or picture quality desired to justify their use.