Just a quick tip of the hat to a great new plugin for WordPress called Picasna. My parents are on a ‘Grey Nomad’ / ‘Silver Surfer’ grand tour of Europe. They’ve got their own travel blog called BigTinBus. Picasna allows them to simply add a link on a fresh line after each new WordPress Blog [...]
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Spinvox Exposed by The BBC
July 23, 2009 – 9:06 am
Spinvox is a service which offers to convert Voicemails to text. Their service claims to use high-tech voice recognition technology, their ‘How it Works’ page explains that a “Voice Message Conversion System, known as ‘D2’ (the Brain)” is used. The BBC’s Technology correspondent, Rory Cellan-Jone, has revealed online in his article Voice Technology Under Fire [...]
Google Chrome Operating System planned for 2010
July 8, 2009 – 10:03 am
Google has announced today that it plans to launch its own computer operating system in 2010. The new OS will be known as Chrome, and will be a freshly designed Operating System targetting machines such as netbooks with a heavy bias towards web usage. The announcement was made yesterday at the official Google blog. The [...]
Firefox 3.5 Launched Today!
June 30, 2009 – 10:19 pm
OK, for the average user all you need to know is that it is simply faster and more intuitive to use. Go get the latest Firefox 3.5 NOW! It’s just better. We’ll tell you more about useful plugins to make your web browsing life even better in due course, but Firefox is Step 1. For [...]
Don’t buy a new PC …
June 29, 2009 – 12:47 pm
Windows 7 is coming soon. In case you’ve missed all the hype, Windows 7 is Microsoft’s new Operating System for PCs and laptops. It has received lots of positive reviews, and is therefore certainly worth having. Windows 7 will not be ready for full public release until October 22nd. However, between now and then, most [...]
