TECHNOLOGY: ViaVoice could be the answer … if you get it working!

Thursday, May 4, 2006

http://ezinearticles.com/blog/archives/2006/04/audio-to-articles.html

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As I was mentioning strategies to repurpose old content that was long forgotten, it sparked Daniel to ask and offer this nugget: Wouldn’t it be easy to talk into a microphone for an hour or any time frame, then pay someone to transcribe the MP3 into a MS Word .doc…break the transcription into 350-500 word articles and you’d have an instant set of 5-20 articles to put into syndication. Just add title, keywords, a default resource box and submit.

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About two years ago I pinched a nerve in my neck, after a couple of weeks of rest, treatment, and drugs, I was able to return to work. But my right hand for typing was useless; maybe good for five minutes. I got a copy of viavoice and was able to dictate as opposed to keyboard. It's fraught with difficulties but it MIGHT be worth considering. With training, I was able to get 99+% accuracy on dictation (speak directly to software) and transcription (record voice and pipe it into software). It's not for the timid or faint of heart but it can be done. The software will also read to you (i.e., as if you were blind) but it was a weird experience to be read to in your own voice. I did try to get this running for a doc who wanted to write a book and I am struggling with it. So to quote the knight in with the Holy Grail, "Choose wisely!".

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TECHNOLOGY: LINKEDIN changed their UI (arghh!)

Thursday, May 4, 2006

For the longest time, I would dump any contacts email address into LinkedIn with an appendage to the first name to remind me where I knew them from. If they susequently joined LinkedIn, then I'd pile on to connect with them. I rarely invite people. It's just to much hassle explaining it, cajoling them, and convincing them. If some one joins on their own, it is a done deal to do the old LinkedIn version of the Vulcan mind meld with them. So routinely dumping in large numbers of email address was a as needed task. Let them "stew" and once a week see who was "discovered".

Now LinkedIn doesn't let me put in "other contacts" so easily. Defeating an easy way to build a network. Arghh!

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TECHNOLOGY: Need to figure out how to load a Google calendar from an plain old ascii file?

Thursday, May 4, 2006

Interesting there doesn't seem to be an easy way to pour data into the Google calendar. I have a flat file of birthday and name. You'da thunk it would be easy to pipe that puppy into GCal. Yuo'da thunk wrong. Hmmm!

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Yahoo survey winds up into its own spam filter

Wednesday, May 3, 2006

How could that happen? It was amusing. Trapped by their own trap.

 P.S. The YIM75 install still isn't working. Arghhh!

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TECHNOLOGY: The Free Software Foundation

Tuesday, May 2, 2006

http://directory.fsf.org/

While primarily a Linux resource, remember that I am not going to Vista. So I am experimenting with Linux prior to taking the plunge.

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Achieve-IT! Desktop Goal Software 1.0 is Live

Monday, May 1, 2006

http://goalsuccess.typepad.com/goaltips/2006/05/achieveit_deskt.html

Achieve-IT! Desktop Goal Software 1.0 is Live

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Well, I am finally at the point to set sail.  Achieve-IT! desktop has officially gone live.  A tour of Achieve-IT! desktop 1.0 is available here. 

The Key features:

  • A Simple way to identify and plan your dreams
  • Secure database prevents prevents prying eyes
  • Discover all steps required to reach each of your goals and make a simple plan to accomplish each one
  • Microsoft Outlook(tm) integration.  Export goals and tasks to Outlook calendar and task list
  • Motivate yourself with the Motivate Me feature.  The Motivate Me option to keep you on track and focused on  your primary goal beyond today, tomorrow and next week by acting as your personal coach.  It pushes you toward your goal in a different way every day.
  • Alot more features I'm too tired to list right now (So you'll just have to download your own copy! )

It requires Windows XP and the .NET Framework installed in order to run.
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I'm playing with it.

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609-guy-luxe

Monday, May 1, 2006

609-489-5876 My laptop phone number when I get my YIM 75 working. Arghh.

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TECHNOLOGY: “SYNCURA” securely share files with your team (free of course)

Saturday, April 29, 2006

http://www.syncura.com

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Synchronize folders with your team!

Syncura has rearraged the peer-to-peer file sharing concept into a secure, invitation-only product that will keep your team's crucially important files in sync.

How does it work?

Syncura automatically encrypts and synchronizes files with the rest of your team. Copy or save a file to a shared folder and it is automatically sent to all your teammates. Only the portion of the file that changed is transferred to your teammates. So if you only add one page to a 100 page document, only the changes you made are transferred. This strategy reduces network bandwidth by over 80%.

Who can use it?

Anyone with Internet access can be invited to share files with your team. Collaborate on documents with clients from other organizations or with colleagues on different networks. If a direct connection between your computer and a teammate's computer is not available, Syncura will perform a ProxySync to synchronize files. A ProxySync will relay your encrypted file changes through our servers.

Instant document sharing

Syncura instantly synchronizes files updated by your teammates to your local hard drive. No more wasting time finding the latest version of a shared document before heading to an offsite meeting. Syncura will also download any changes your teammates made while you were offline. Additonally, Syncura detects any files you changed while offline and immediately synchronizes them with the rest of your team.

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Well it's free. It does exchange files. How secure it is I can't say I know. It solves a problem I have about sharing data between machines.

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TECHNOLOGY: Need to figure out how to have my favorite auto hot key come up at start up

Saturday, April 29, 2006

Hmmmm?

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Playing with Yahoo’s Phone In / Phone Out serivce

Saturday, April 29, 2006

I'm a sucker. Yahoo sent me a dollar to use on their new Phone In / Phone Out service. It's appealing. I can make or receive phone calls from my laptop. Out is not much difference there from Skype or Gizmo. In to it's own phone number is unique. But, when I am untethered with my Verizon Wireless Broad Band Card, I'm a rolling phone booth. Comcast's Digital Voice, part of their triple play, would also be nice when it gets to my area.

But three features of Yahoo's offering peaked my interest.

(1) Cheap; penny a minute.

(2) Turn my untethered laptop into a mobile phone [Yeah, I have a wireless phone. Buy a laptop phone would be nerdy kool.]

(3) Give my laptop it's own phone number. How kool would that be? And useful.

I figure that using Yahoo Instant Messenger, people might be more likely to give you a quick call.

SO FAR, it's been a modest disaster.

YIM75 will not install on my luggable laptop. Queries to Yahoo Support get a canned message — we'll be back to you within a day — followed by telling me where to dl the software or asking me questions about what happens when YIM runs.

Hey guys and gals, read the messages. IT DOESN'T INSTALL. Arghhh.

If I ever get a customer support group, then I am going have reading and listening lessons.

Maybe Ed Gripeline Foster would be interested in this?

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