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Windows 7 and speech recognition

Having installed Windows 7, I was keen to see whether the speech recognition function had improved.  I’m happy to report that the speech recognition function has indeed improved.  In fact I’m writing this post using the speech recognition function and I have to say from my perspective its accuracy and ease of use are greatly [...]

bluetek multicharger – it’s not universal but it is handy

Here’s a nifty solution to the clutter of chargers and wires that you can end up with if you have numerous devices all needing charging. The Bluetek multicharger can alleviate some of these problems for owners of particular devices. It’s important to note this is a multicharger not a universal charger. So it will be [...]

Hootsuite – change tweets to hoots

If you have more than one Twitter account then hootsuite is a service that deserves a closer look. It enables you to set up mulitple accounts and tweet to those accounts in one go. hootsuite also enable users to have multiple logins to one Twitter account, meaning that you can have more than one editor [...]

Twhirl – Twitter on your desktop

I’ve been looking at Twitter in more detail of late and you’ll see on this site some recent additions that take advantage of this technology. Now you don’t need to have a browser open to keep up to date with the tweets that you’ve been following. twhirl is a program developed using Adobe AIR that [...]

Edimax Broadband Gigabit Wireless N Router

Well, the world of wireless N and gigabit LAN was too much of a temptation. But at this price it wasn’t going to break the bank to give it a try. I had never heard of Edimax before today. But I have to say, the ease of set up shows just how far wireless technology [...]