Archive of entries posted on April 2007

Speech recognition in Vista

9 April 2007, 7:50 pm

It’s great having a few hours up your sleeve because I’ve been able to really have a play around with some the features of Vista. This weekend I’m beginning to play around with speech recognition capabilities of Microsoft Windows Vista. So far its performance is not far from that of Dragon Naturally Speaking. In fact, [...]

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Web stats updated

8 April 2007, 11:35 am

I think that the StatTraq solution is looking most promising. SlimStats is also very good, but the layout of StatTraq reporting is more understandable for me. Particularly in the collation of most read posts. This is really where you are wanting to see results most of the time. I need an ‘at-a-glance’ look at what [...]

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Lies, damned lies and web statistics

5 April 2007, 2:28 pm

I’ve been playing around with a number of stats plug-ins at the moment and well, it’s all rather confusing to be honest. I have way too many little scripts running off GUB, but I’m trying to work out what’s best. I am using statcounter and that is proving to vary wildly with the information that [...]

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ip2nation – see who’s from where

4 April 2007, 10:03 pm

I have managed to install ip2nation and its associated WordPress plugin. It took a little bit of fiddling but then I am pretty much PHP challenged! You can scroll down on any page and find it in the left side bar. The trickiest part was making it work with wp-useronline from Lester Chan. It was [...]

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