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admin — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:01:10 +0000

Hi. Just a quick message to let you know that I probably won't have much time to update this blog for awhile.

In the meantime you may wish to visit a couple of my IT sites. There are some resources and links available that you may find useful.

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Hope you find them useful!

Original post blogged on b2evolution.

Universal Translator

admin — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:36:54 +0000

Last month I wrote about the universal translator and how you could speak into it and get a verbal translation. I also said I believed it was discontinued. Well Ectaco have released a new range of speech to speech translators with up to a million words in some of the dictionaries as well as the option of adding other languages to the device. The series is called SpeechGuard TL2 and some of the versions available have more than one language on them. Like the TL-2EW6 which has English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Speak into it in English and it'll speak back in the language you want to hear. Speak into it in the other languages installed and it'll speak back to you in English. Sounds pretty cool.

Hmm, I'd probably still recommend doing some language classes and using this to supplement your learning though. I don't believe it will be able to help you explain your dissertation on the effects of microcredit in developing nations and how that impacts on the causal nexus of auxiliary redundancy codes development. It might, but I just don't know. ;)

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HiPath OpenScape

admin — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:52:10 +0000

Recently I wrote about SIP and what it means to convergence of communication. Well, Siemens have released a new SIP dashboard panel that solves some of the problems for you. See who's online, who's available, show to others how available you are and so forth. This program is really for a business with thousands of employees so we haven't really got one for the home user yet. You can find out more about Siemen's Solution here.

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What's an Aussiephile?

admin — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 14:46:02 +0000

The first Aussiephile I've ever met was American. And I met her in the early 90s. Before then I had no idea that anyone was that interested in Australian culture besides some Australian historians gathering dust at the back of a Sydney University. Well, apparently there are millions of them. If you're an Aussiephile you can get really excited now because

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Mini Browser

admin — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 14:35:10 +0000

Opera software have released a great compression website browser for mobile phones. So, finally, you can actually really view a web page on your mobile phone. It can show the website with a compression ratio of up to 80%. They've also released a browser for the Pocket PC and a mini browser for general WAP enabled phones. You can find out more here

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Replace your landline

admin — Sat, 17 Jun 2006 05:04:21 +0000

Ever since some mobile phone companies started offering local call charges for calls from within a 500 metre radius of your home, that landlines would become less common as a telephone line. (Landlines are usually used just to access the internet. And with wireless broadband available, even this is becoming rarer)

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What is SIP?

admin — Fri, 16 Jun 2006 04:51:40 +0000

SIP stands for Session Initiation Protocol and it is the next industry standard to come about. The system will converge internet protocol multimedia communications.

So, quick explanations -

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Sir Bill Gates is leaving Microsoft

admin — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 04:46:39 +0000

Yes. A shock to us all. Bill, who started Microsoft with a partner in the 1980s, and now has a personal fortune in excess of 67 billion, is retiring to concentrate on his charity work. He is allowing 2 years to move from his position and to give time for other projects he's working on to be completed. (Like Vista?) So expect Microsoft to be sans Gates in July 2008.

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