• More and more I find myself in situations where I’m completely dependent upon my smart phone. I hate to say that having a smartphone is making me stupid, but the...
    Don’t let Google make you stupid

    More and more I find myself in situations where I’m completely dependent upon my smart phone. I hate to say that having a smartphone is making me stupid, but the…

  • Staying connected and interacting with customers on Facebook has become commonplace in the business world. However, it’s easy to get yourself in trouble if you’re not careful about the things...
    4 Rules of Thumb to Follow Before Posting on Facebook

    Staying connected and interacting with customers on Facebook has become commonplace in the business world. However, it’s easy to get yourself in trouble if you’re not careful about the things…

  • Now is definitely the time to be a curator of your thoughts and ideas. Nuance has released a new piece of software called Dragon Notes. Its initial offering seems to...
    Dragon Notes wants to help you organize your random thoughts

    Now is definitely the time to be a curator of your thoughts and ideas. Nuance has released a new piece of software called Dragon Notes. Its initial offering seems to…

  • A couple of weeks ago Google changed some things around on the website for Gmail; particularly with the composition window. In their view I’m sure that they felt that changing...
    Outlook.com’s composition window is better than Gmail

    A couple of weeks ago Google changed some things around on the website for Gmail; particularly with the composition window. In their view I’m sure that they felt that changing…

  • Using voice-recognition is important because it increases someone’s productivity simply by using the technology. When people talk about taking notes and writing an information for later, I immediately think about...
    Voice recognition: Why I moved from Swype to SwiftKey

    Using voice-recognition is important because it increases someone’s productivity simply by using the technology. When people talk about taking notes and writing an information for later, I immediately think about…

Don’t let Google make you stupid

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More and more I find myself in situations where I’m completely dependent upon my smart phone. I hate to say that having a smartphone is making me stupid, but the simple fact is, if I have my smart phone, I know that I don’t have to remember pieces of information and therefore I consider the information I look up over the Internet disposable; it’s not worth saving.

I hate showing my age, but way back when, when cable TV was just being introduced, the Atari 2600 had just come out and touchtone phones were brand-new; people were forced to remember everything because we didn’t have the Internet. Now we have the Internet and we don’t have to remember anything. When you call someone on your Smartphone do you look for their face or do you dial their number? Would you know their number without your Smartphone; most wouldn’t.

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4 Rules of Thumb to Follow Before Posting on Facebook

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Staying connected and interacting with customers on Facebook has become commonplace in the business world. However, it’s easy to get yourself in trouble if you’re not careful about the things you’re posting. So, here are four rules of thumb to follow to protect your reputation when posting on Facebook.

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Dragon Notes wants to help you organize your random thoughts

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Now is definitely the time to be a curator of your thoughts and ideas. Nuance has released a new piece of software called Dragon Notes. Its initial offering seems to be in the same category as Evernote and Google Keep [web-based]. This move by Nuance is rather interesting because the company itself normally focuses on document imaging, document management, document recognition [OCR] and voice-recognition.

Right along the same lines as Evernote and Google Keep. Dragon Notes lets users dictate notes, task lists, reminders and compose emails using voice commands instead of having to type that information manually. It also includes the ability to search the Internet and update social media websites like Facebook and Twitter.

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Voice recognition: Why I moved from Swype to SwiftKey

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Using voice-recognition is important because it increases someone’s productivity simply by using the technology. When people talk about taking notes and writing an information for later, I immediately think about using voice-recognition. In my opinion, I think it voice-recognition is much faster than trying to write information out and in 99% of the cases, more legible.

Considering that a lot of people user smart phones and tablets now for all kinds of things using cloud-based voice-recognition is very important. The only operating system that doesn’t have cloud-based speech recognition is now desktop-based PCs. [exception of using Chrome]

This 3 main players for cloud voice-recognition, Microsoft, Nuance and Google.

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Techie Review: Nuance OmniPage Ultimate

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A new version of OmniPage has just been released. I did a review on OmniPage professional 18 last year and and I tried to cover some of the features that offered at the time, but Nuance is continuing ever forward; pushing the abilities of OCR technology and the integration of the cloud storage.

If you’re in the process of trying to migrate to a paperless environment, you are obviously going to be interested in using document imaging, the document imaging by itself isn’t enough. Your going to need software that is going to streamline and assist you in the most positive way possible to really adopt the lifestyle of being a paperless environment. It doesn’t matter if you’re using document imaging in a small home office, small business or if you’re a larger business just getting into document imaging, you’re going to need a software package that’s going to be the most economical and performance driven for what you’re trying to do. OmniPage is a good solution for that.

OmniPage offers automated OCR with options to import from multiple locations. It can import from local hard drives, network locations, cloud storage and even digital camera images. With OmniPage digital images can be collected automatically, OCR’d for text output, retain document formatting and filed automatically by using barcode technology.

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Is Microsoft Surface is going to make you work more?

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April 24, 2013

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Hey corporate workers! It seems like every blog out there has an opinion [even mine] about the success and failure of Microsoft Surface, but I don’t think anyone is really covering the fact that Microsoft Surface is going to allow employers to get some free work time.

I think a lot of employers have been hesitant on trying to adopt mobile computing such as using the iPad for doing various tasks outside the office. People have a tendency to take their work home with them and try to catch up on office tasks and projects off the clock; while are not in the office— even while their own vacation. But with the release of Microsoft Surface I think going to start seeing a lot more corporate employers adopting the use of Microsoft Surface for their workers.

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Are you having trouble choosing between Evernote and Google Keep?

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April 22, 2013

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If you’re not already using one, you should really start thinking about using a note taking application or service to keep all the snippets of information, ideas or thoughts in a singular place so that you can retrieve them later. Most people have passing thoughts and have the inclination to say, that’s a great idea, but when it comes time to retrieve that thought they can’t remember what it was. That’s when you need applications like Evernote and Google Keep.

Personally, I have to admit that I’ve been using Evernote for several years to help me keep track of snippets of information and synchronize that information from my PC to my android devices; it’s just terribly convenient.

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Movie Review: Oblivion [meh- it's okay]

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April 19, 2013

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Last night, I went to go see the new movie called Oblivion, starring Tom Cruise. I’m a big fan of quality science fiction movies. Most of the time, if the actors are decent and the effects are done well, the overall message of the picture will come across and should be fairly good.

In Oblivion Tom Cruise plays the role of a repair man of 2077, left behind on the planet Earth to repair drones. The drones protect large machines that convert seawater to energy. After X amount of time, after their tour is done, there taken back to the main ship. Right along the same lines as the storylines of The Island [w/Ewan McGregor].

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The 5 Best Marketing Strategies for Your New App

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April 19, 2013

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Apps are everywhere; every brand and company has one or wants one. With so many apps in any given store, making yours stand out is paramount, but it requires quick thinking and in-depth marketing. If your strategies are sound and guaranteed to grab attention, your app will become successful—and so will your brand or product.

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