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Well, something that has been ticking under/over for a few months, and somethings that I planned last year and have only just managed to finish!
Both are school related, so I thought I would add them as links from this blog.

The first is Report Fairy, a service where you dictate your school reports into your computer, upload them to the Report Fairy site, and we have them typed up for you (for about fifty quid). I came up with this because, despite being a fast typist, I still can't type as fast as I think, and teachers are naturally good talkers (and probably unnaturally slow typists). Have a look, and let me know what you think.

The other is Text Hunter, a free service that I 'invented' a couple of months ago to show to a class I teach how easy it is to spot plagiarised writing. You put in a chunk of text, tell the page how many phrases to look for, and how long you want them to be, and set it off. It's fast and very good at doing this simple, but incredibly useful function. I thought that secondary teachers and lecturers, who get work submitted electronically, might like to use it as a cursory tool for finding 'borrowed' passages of text.