I’ve been looking at WordPress shopping cart plugins and other ways to create an online shopping cart and I came across a link to a feature I didn’t even know PayPal has. Paypal can create random temporary security keys (an additional password for your account that is only good for a short time) to help ensure that only you can log into your account (since you’re the only one who can access this security key).
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Voice Recognition Really Works Now
Some time between 8 and 10 years ago, I remember getting voice recognition software with the intent that it would make writing faster.
This was running on a machine with Windows 98 on it — and even with training it didn’t work very well.
I recently saw an iPhone app doing voice dictation and it worked great for recording me without training. It’s amazing how much power new computing devices have (even the tiny ones).
But seeing this video completely blew me away. Not to pick on Tyrone, but his combination of accents (I think it is Australian English combbined with whatever his native asian language is???) makes him difficult for me to understand, yet the software can understand him! That’s amazing! If it can understand him, I’m pretty sure it will be able to understand me.
That’s “Lord Shefferman” to you, buddy!
I was over at Arnold’s house (yeah, like you know who Arnold is) and we watched the Star Trek episode “Whom Gods Destroy” which centered around Garth of Izar — who had reinvented himself as Lord Garth. I must say, I do like the title “Lord.” I myself have both drawn a bunny-like character known … Read more
Start Your Own Internet Bakery Fantasy
My last post got me thinking about the business of baking cookies.
It seems like a good idea. Bake cookies. Sell them on the internet. Make them really yummy and charge a lot. Include addictive ingredients so your customers HAVE TO keep coming back.
To that end, I did some research and here’s what I came up with:
You Are Not Your Customer
Or more politely: I am not my customer.
But it does sound more authoritative when I declare: “You are not your customer.”
Right? It’s like… official.
What I mean is that just because I (or you) wouldn’t pay some amount of money for something, doesn’t mean that someone wouldn’t happily pay that if it somehow represented sufficient value to them.
Steve Jobs doesn’t like Flash – me neither
from
https://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash/
We also know first hand that Flash is the number one reason Macs crash. We have been working with Adobe to fix these problems, but they have persisted for several years now.
I agree.
Blown Away by the New Dyson Fan
I saw the new fan from Dyson last night – it really is bladeless! I was in Bed Bath & Beyond and I felt like a little kid as I put my hand through it and couldn’t figure out how it was blowing the air.