In the world of Smartphones I really love to see the redundancy in applications. Smartphones; there’s basically 3-4 competing operating systems for the Smartphone, and what’s fascinating about it’s the fact that developers are having to write the same code over and over just to put it on each phone.

It’s the PC world all over again, but now in the world of Smartphones.

People are making comparisons on which Smartphone operating system is the best, which one is better, but the fact is- it doesn’t matter everyone is using the same applications.

The applications are the thing that are making the phones attractive in the first place. The applications are in the position to make or break the success of the Smartphone.

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I’m an owner of an Android phone, and over the last couple weeks I’ve had the firmware for Android for version 2.2; I downloaded it early and applied it to my phone before the official release was sent out.

I reported on some things that noticed with the upgrade, everything does far has been okay, with the exclusion of several applications that just haven’t been updated by the developers.

But what I want to mention right now, is that I believe that with the latest update, and I’m not sure how, but I believe that the voice recognition with the latest release of Google Android is doing very well.

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I visit the forums for Windows Live Writer a lot to attempt to help others where Windows Live Writer lacks some native abilities or if some people are just lost on how to use the application [since theirs no help manual].

But there’s a reoccurring issue/question in the forum about not being able to establish PAGES for BLOGGER from inside Windows Live Writer.

For some reason, the Windows Live Writer team just hasn’t gotten around to that yet, but there was a comment left the other day about how someone else did it, but it didn’t cover the issue of inserting images or other media…

So I offer this…

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Another release of Windows Live Writer has come out and the Windows Live Writer development team has made only small changes thus far.

I’d speculate that Windows Live Writer is going to be in beta for a while longer… The startup/splash screen for Windows Live Writer now says ‘Windows Live Writer 2011’; and that’s fascinating news.

If that’s the case, we’re looking at a full blown/official release of Windows Live Writer around last quarter [late] of 2010; that’s right at 2 years between releases… Initial release was December of 2008. That’s not a very ambitious release schedule.

So what are we noticing with the latest Beta release?

And what things are we still waiting for?

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I’m not saying that I need to, or that it’s an issue, but in the case that you decide you’re going to move to something more elaborate, or if you just need to be able to completely reinstall Windows Live Writer, I collected enough information here to attempt to help out the average Windows Live Writer [desperate user].

I’m not stating that you can’t go to the the Windows Live Writer support forum and look it up, but this is more for general purpose and personal use; it’s also more than you’re going to get ‘stock’ from the support team from Microsoft.

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These are some items that I notice, like to keep an eye on and also to notate any new programs/software that could be useful.

I offer this as some links you should be curious about and if they can help you.

There’s utilities for mounting folders and directories, and handling multi-page tiff files. There’s browser releases of chrome slim browser and Opera and office productivity applications for creating and handling PDF files, working in virtual environments, managing e-mail and doing screenshots.

Check out these links…

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Nuance has just released their latest version of their PDF converter Enterprise. Nuance is most popular for it’s voice recognition [Dragon NaturallySpeaking] and imaging software, such as [Omnipage/PaperPort]. They recently released a free version of their PDF viewer that’s available for anyone to download and use for everyday tasks.

But now Nuance is really putting their foot in the door on handling and generating PDFs. PDFs are pretty much the standard for swapping documents, or storing information, and it’s also Adobe Acrobat’s native ground.

With the offering that Nuance is making with their PDF converter it shows that they’re really trying to push Adobe off their pedestal, and to show them how it’s done…

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If you ask anyone I work with you’d know that I’m a big Dragon NaturallySpeaking fan. And I like using tools like this to be more productive. You can’t beat speaking and then seeing the words appear on the screen.

And back in March I was discussing using TTS [text to speech] to help with doing compositions and proof reading documents & emails for you, but in that article I was was referring to a program that handled the process of actually reading the text; that was a Shareware option.

I’ve found a new option, a outstanding option, it’s freeware and it’s got plenty of options. It’s called Balabolka…

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