Emailing and texting just doesn’t get any easier than this. Dragon Dictation is currently a free iPhone app that uses speech-to-text conversion to type out messages. The messages can then be emailed, saved to the clipboard, or sent via text message.
Dragon Dictation is made by Nuance Communications, the people who brought you the popular software Dragon Naturally Speaking. This app is definitely worth a try, especially while it’s still free.
Download it at iTunes.
OK now that I have been playing around with Google wave for a while now, I will give my thoughts on it.
Google WAve looks to be a very useful tool for collaborating and Brain storming
Collaboration: Google Wave can be used much easier than regular email. You can have everyone on the same wave and interact in real time, instead of waiting to receive an email. With Gmail or any other email system you have to wait until the email is received in your inbox, but with Wave you can see the others typing in the wave. This makes Collaboration very easy and very fast. Also another great tool or extension for collaboration is the iframe extension. With this you can add a google docs page into the wave and have everyone edit it in real time, instead of sending it back and forth over email
Clicl here for the video showing it in work
You can also use the iframe extension for embedding any website, such as Google.com, a blog or a news site. http://wave-ide.appspot.com/iframe.xml
Brain Stormimg: Another great extension that you cna use now is the Brain Storm extension. This is good way to collect people’s thoughts on a project: http://www.madin.jp/gadget/index.xml
click here for the video
There are a whole lot of ways you can use Google wave in a collaborative blogging situation, news site situation, educational situation and many more uses.
There are some downfalls as of right now. It is slow at times since it is on a server used by google for everyone. In the future you will be able to host it on your own cloud. There are still some bugs in the system also. Sometimes you can not see if someone is online or not. And the invite only it is hard to get everyone you want on it.
But in all I think it will be a very useful tool for collaboration. education and various other situations in the future.
I will keep on playing around with it some more and probably have some more reviews later on.
Give us your thoughts on Google Wave.
Anyone that gets online should be protected from all the malware that is out there. Without a good anti-virus, computers will get bogged down in malware,which is programs or code that are put onto a computer without the owners knowledge).
There are many good anti-virus products out there. Many are free and easily downloaded.
AVG is a good one that I have used often on computers that I have worked on for friends and family. The best part is that it is free.
Avast is another one I have used often.
Both AVG and Avast have free versions and paid version. The paid versions have a little more bells and whistles, such as anti spyware for identity protection.
Spyware is another form of malware that tried to collect information from a computer. Such as login and passwords for banks and other sensitive sites people use everyday. People can take over your bank accounts, email accounts and other private matters with spyware. So some of the paid anti-virus packages are a good thing to have.
But if you are cheap like me there are also many free spyware products.
Spybot Search and Destroy is one of the best out there. We use it at my work all the time.
Ad Aware is another free one that is out there and is very good.
There are many other good anti virus and spyware protection products out there. But the best way to not get any is only going to well reputation sites and not opening email from unknown people. But even with avoiding all the bad sites out there and not opening unknow emails, spyware and malware gets into computers. Some can be on well reputation sites in ads that the owners have no idea that they are there. So it is a good practice to always have both a anti virus (which is anti-malware in reality) and anti-spyware on your computer
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