I got thinking about speech recognition and how it has developed over the years. My first experience with speech recognition was when my dad bought IBM ViaVoice back in the 90s for our computer (a Pentium 120MHz with 16MB RAM). The software needed a good amount of training to improve its “out of the box” …
Category: Technology
Jan 02 2012
Hackers… In… SPAAAAAACE
It’s been a game of cat and mouse between regional governments around the world and people wanting to keep information flowing and free from restrictions and censorship imposed by local authorities. The web is proving to be something that governments do not fully or properly understand as they seemingly bend to the will of large …
Jan 01 2012
Why You Should Only Install Applications in the Program Files Folder
Most Windows software these days follows the convention introduced back in Windows 95 to install applications into the “Program Files” or “Program Files (x86)” folder on your computer (usually located in C:\). With more recent versions of Windows such as Windows Vista and Windows 7 this has become quite important as the “Program Files” folders …
Dec 31 2011
Boydo Updates Embedded YouTube Videos
Just a short note to cap off the year. I have gone through and updated the embedded videos on the blog to use either HTML5 or Flash depending your browser and whether or not you have Adobe Flash installed. Adobe Flash has been copping a bit of flack lately not just for its performance on …
Dec 30 2011
Try and Locate a Stolen Camera
Here’s a quick tip tonight. With services like “Find my iPhone” on the iOS platform and similar services available on Windows Phone and some Android phones it’s interesting to see this proliferate to other “non-cellular” devices such as the humble digital camera. These days, more cameras are now building in GPS functionality such as the …
Dec 29 2011
Samoa Updates its Timezone
I saw mention of this today online and thought this was worth talking about. Most of us are aware of the concept of “leap years” occurring every four years (except years evenly divisible by 100 so long as they are also not divisible by 400). Leap years have a leap day that ends up creating …
Dec 28 2011
Undock and Split the iPad Soft Keyboard
As veratile as the iPad can be it can often be a right pain trying to type on it particularly when holding it in both hands when it is in landscape mode as the centre keys are often too far away from each thumb. It can also be a problem using the keyboard when in …
Dec 27 2011
Save Time on Private Health Insurance Claims
Here’s another quick tip for tonight. Like it or hate it, most of us earning a living are “encouraged” to take out private health insurance for one of a bunch of reasons. It’s always nice to get something back on those various medical fees we incur particularly if we can get it processed at the …
Dec 26 2011
Why Won’t Windows Automatically Sleep?
Recently, I reinstalled Windows 7 from scratch after putting a brand new OCZ RevoDrive 3 X2 solid state drive in my desktop computer but since then my computer hasn’t been going to sleep automatically after its nightly backup. After a bit of research, I found that I needed to use the powercfg tool to see what …
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