Technology Thursday

2010 is fast approaching, and with it the inevitable drafting of New Year's resolutions. I suspect many of us always have an implicit resolution of finding more time - more hours in the day to get everything done. I'm constantly scanning for ways to add efficiencies to my routines and household chores wherever possible and, of course, technology is often a help in this regard. Here are a few ways technology can be used to save a few minutes here and there as we head into 2010.

First, a mundane but useful tool is auto-billpay. I resisted this for a long time because early experiences (as in, a decade ago) were pretty annoying. But things have come a long way since then, and now I'm auto-paying many more bills than I used to. At some point a few months back I just got very tired of losing significant portions of my weekend to writing checks and licking envelopes.

Second, if you wear a watch (and I do - because sometimes it's rude to pull

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