As the fight wages on in the world of Smartphones and applications, Google seems to have hit the nail on the head with the Google App Inventor.

So you can imagine what Google was thinking a year ago when they released this a select few to play around with and inject a spark of innovation to the world of Android. You need something to make it fun and it has to be easy.

Now, some are arguing it’s not powerful enough to get anything done that’s powerful, but is it enough o do simple tasks and provide a basic service – apparently.

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Ain’t this just confusing as hell…

I’ve been dropping by the support forums for Windows Live Writer for months now. People have questions, need help on Windows Live Writer or blogging in general; I attempt to help them, but I was doing a search to day and I found that Microsoft actually has to official forums for Windows Live Writer.

What Microsoft has is the Windows Live Writer forum that’s been there forever, since the time of the betas [the first beta]. And then you’ve the NEW Windows Live Writer forum [called writer threads].

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When I logged in to my WordPress account today, I was nicely surprised to see that WordPress 3.0 had been released. I like to stay on top of my WordPress installations and I like to see what strikes my interest as I go through the new stuff in the latest release.

There were a few things in the latest version that I liked and a few things I still am going to have to wait for. I think WordPress is a great blogging tool and has made some great strides for everyone that’s a blogger, or wants to blog.

This is my quick skim through the release.

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Windows Live Writer is due an update, but the Windows Live Writer team hasn’t announced any time frames as to when we might see the new version.

And while Windows Live Writer 2009 is a great program for blogging, and especially the use of using themes as you’re composing the post, some times the program doesn’t do as you expected and the themes are all messed up, or the theme your using with Windows Live Writer is not compatible.

So to help others adjust on the fly, here’s some information on how to deal with it.

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With Windows Live Writer 2010 looking like it’s going to be a few more months away from release, it’s looking unimpressive right now.

Windows Live Writer is the best blogging tool out there, but it’s development is so slow; it’s depressing. It’s no wonder Internet Explorer is taking such a beating.

If you were paying attention to the Twitter world this evening you’ll see that some more screenshots of Windows Live Writer 2010 were published and besides the change in the GUI, not much has changed, and there’s no details from the developers to say different.

Everything is hush right now.

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As your going about your daily life, there’s lots of thing you wish you had to keep track of it all and this was my problem about 4 years ago and then I found MyNotesKeeper. I posted an article about it last year, but it’s getting better, the author has been [within the last few months] actively pushing updates and new features.

One of the things I really like about MyNotesKeeper is the responses from the author; you don’t get it much with other developers, but with MyNotesKeeper he’s been listening to his users and adding the small thing they’re requesting. It really puts a polish on a great program.

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Dragon NaturallySpeaking has been a part of my personal productive arsenal for quite some time. I’ve been using speech to text technology for almost 7 years, back before technology could really handle speech to text.

I started off using Dragon NaturallySpeaking at work. I was in a position where I had to create large amounts of documentation and I typically had small windows of opportunity to create this information. I needed the ability to get the bulk of my information into a textual format so it can be refined and then ultimately distributed to other individuals; to be precipitated down to my work associates.

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Nuance is still working on the release of their Dragon NaturallySpeaking for smart phones. While the release for the iPhone is still planned, it seems to be delayed a bit. The first release or beta testing of Dragon NaturallySpeaking for a smart phone will be for the Blackberry.

The release of the iPhone version is slated for release later this year… This is still very exciting news.

With everyone I’ve spoken to, they are very interested in this ability; the ability to dictate a blog from their phone.

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