I was working on some stuff the other day; it was completely boring and monotonous, but I had to grab information from a webpage […] 3 pieces of it and then paste it in to a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

The constant switching back and forth was insane.

I wasn’t able to do all this automatically [hands off], but I made it a lot easier.

I wrote an AutoHotKey script to work for me…

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ANDROID has voice recognition from Google built right in to the Operating System for DROID, but the recognition of Dragon NaturallySpeaking is far greater than Google at this point.

So one of the very first questions that hit my mind was after the iPhone was provided Dragon NaturallySpeaking, and I understood how it works…

How long is it going to before DROID is going to get Dragon NaturallySpeaking?

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If your using Windows Live Writer, and you copy and paste images [for like taking screenshots], you may be unaware that Windows Live Writer is doing you a disservice by not using an optimized image. Or by not offering a choice when posting images.

When images are pasted in to Windows Live Writer the program inserts them as a PNG file. PNG’s are not as compressed as JPG and therefore resulting in larger images, more storage requirements and more bandwidth; resulting in a slower website.

Take a look at my examples…

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