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Thoughts and things I care to sharelinks for 2007-06-12
- Another update from the rising online office product star Zoho. Check out their Zoho Creator tool that allows you to create a custom online application with easy to use tools, and scripts. Included is an updated UI as well, that enhances the drag-n-dro
Video posts not shown in RSS feed
Just thought I’d let you know that I’m working on this problem. Should be just a configuration on the RSS feed itself. I’ll be testing some changes today, so hopefully, I’ll get that corrected shortly.
Feed Reader Increase
Surprise is not checking your Feedburner stats for months and then finding that people actually read what you write! 
First Vlog Post!
Thoughts? Comment below…
links for 2007-06-07
- Preston Gralla identifies a few nice add-ons (or plug-ins) for Firefox that will enhance your web browsing experience. This is not a definitive list, however, and I’d recommend searching Lifehacker for one of the better ones.
June 2007 Header Image
So I finally remembered to change my header image here on the blog for June. This picture was taken on a lake in northern Minnesota, near Cross Lake, MN – a favorite getaway location for many years. I had thought that I created a reminder to prompt me, but I guess I messed it up. 
links for 2007-06-05
- This is the announcement that we were expecting today from HTC. Basically a new HTC device featuring multi-touch technologies that allows more intuitive functionality of a given device. Cool stuff!
- Windows 2008 Server Core will be a great addition to the Windows Server family. The ability to run servers without most of the GUI and other non-essential Windows components will dramatically increase the robustness of the OS for server applications.
- Has it really been 30 years!? I guess it has. Funny, I don’t feel that old… Congratulations to Apple, the Apple II was an great machine and will always be remembered fondly. Even if I didn’t actually own one at the time – I was a TRS-80 guy at the t
- Duncan Riley has a nice article about Apple’s 30th anniversary of the Apple II computer.
- Moveable Type is the blogging platform that really started opening the door to bloggers who wanted customization and control of their sites. Now in v4.0 it includes an open source license similar to MySQL’s. For MT fans, this may be a fantastic upgrade!
- Looking for a review of the T-Mobile Wing (I am always looking)? Here is one by Gundeep Hora at Cool Tech Zone. Don’t look for the author to be too enthusiastic about the device, but he covers the bits & pieces fairly well. I’ve had a hands-on with the
- Robert Scoble interviews Tim Ferriss
- Heh, I got a chance to see this product back in April. Fantastic new conferencing tools!
Another article on ‘Leadership & Personal Branding’
For all those who are really working on their Personal Brand, here is another article. The whole concept of Personal Branding is gaining more ground as people understand what it means to promote yourself. Again, it’s more than just your reputation.
Via: Fast Company – Leadership and Personal Branding
Speech Recognition
It’s kind of interesting, I’ve been interested in speech recognition for many years. However, only recently has the technology really started to become useful. While it was included in Windows of XP, but I did little more than to test it out a little bit.
Obviously, speech recognition has been included in Windows Vista as well. Of course since I have recently purchased a high-quality headset for video conferencing, it also works very well for speech recognition. So once again I am going down the path of using speech recognition for writing tasks and sometimes for command and control.
Very early on in the mid nineties, I had found a small inexpensive utility that recorded small snippets of voice that could be assigned to certain control functions for the operating system. It was really fun at the time to tell your computer to launch an application, or close a window, or click on things, but it was very limited. Most of the new or state of the art speech recognition tools and technologies, allow a person to do many more things.
Training and practice still make up the large part of successes in using speech recognition technologies. Speech in Windows Vista is no different than in any other product; but it still requires patience and perseverance to make practical use of the technology.
Still, I have had a lot of fun of dictating this blog post and exploring the speech recognition features in Windows Vista. Will I still continue using it? I’m not entirely certain. In many situations I might, as it significantly reduces the amount of typing I need to do. However, it does not always reduce the amount of time needed to write anything, nor the time to correct punctuation and other items that it misses.
links for 2007-06-04
- Looks like all your Apple iPhone dreams may come true at the end of the month for a tidy $600 even. Not interested personally, but for Mac users, this’ll be an awesome moment – something Windows Mobile and Palm users have known for years. 🙂
@MAC_Arms Pay taxes when you make your money, pay taxes when you spend your money, pay taxes when you successfully invest your money, pay taxes when you save enough taxed money to afford a house, pay taxes to live in your house, pay taxes when you sell the house that you paid taxes on to
Yup, taxes are criminal and we need serious reforms. I've always said that if you want to see a tax revolt, make withholdings illegal and have Americans write a tax check every payday. They'll revolt for sure. You don't miss what you never had.
I think it’s safe to say that @GovEvers should stop blocking audits in Wisconsin and open the books…
“Only AMERICAN citizens should vote.”
Sen. @berniemoreno says voter ID and proof of citizenship are simply common sense.
“We’re talking about a very low threshold — identify who you are and prove you’re a U.S. citizen when you register to vote. I think we’re getting closer to
Wrong. Democrats are solely responsible for hours-long airport lines.
They voted to defund TSA three times and won’t even entertain a conversation about reopening it. Why?
They’re using it as leverage to stop enforcing immigration laws.