Pacman
How many hours were lost today in offices around the world. The google home page had a pacman game to celebrate the 30 year anniversary of the video game. If you want to try it go to the google home page, but remember it is only for today.
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They have announced it. The big announcement at Google I/O is Google TV, check out the official website http://www.google.com/tv/ Watch the video here Google TV announcement  Radar virtuel If you want to see live airplane traffic check this out http://www.radarvirtuel.com It shows the current position and status of planes over Europe. You can also add labels, see the current position of the volcanix ash cloud, and filter out any of the aircraft based on many parameters. I regularly fly to Northern Ireland so I use it to check what it happening to those flight paths only, useful to see if the incoming plane is on time.  AVG license message Back to Luton airport for a trip to Belfast. Thought I would have breakfast at the airport, this time, as I noticed that Pret does porridge. Turns out to be good porridge, I guess because it has been on the heat for a while the oats really get a chance to expand, so the whole thing is much more creamy. I opted for a dollop of honey for £1.99, which means they are making big margins on materials. I get a kg of Tesco value oats for less than a pound, and all you need for a portion of porridge is half a mug full. A bag lasts me a couple of months.  Helen cartoon Helen is going to have her 40th birthday party this year, and we have decided have a party to celebrate at a local golf club. I have been designing the invite. We needed a good picture for the front of the card. I used a picture that Marshall drew for Helen for her 21st birthday. First I scanned it then I used Inkscape an opensource vector graphics drawing package t trace round all the bits and colour it in. It was surprisingly easy to do once I got started and had figured out how to do all the bits I needed.  Google ad Things are hotting up. After the IE hot fix and the German and French government advice not to use IE. Google takes the chance to gather some momentum for Chrome.  Chrome If you follow the instructions here http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/19/guide-install-google-chrome-os/ you can get Chrome OS up and running in no time. You will need a bit torrent client I used uTorrent which you can get here http://www.utorrent.com/ and Vitrual Box or VMware player or other offering. You saw it here first!! Google wave touted by some to be the next big thing on the internet. I applied for an account but sadly in the latest round of invites I missed out, guess I’ll have to wait for the public launch. But if any of you blog readers have an account if you could send me one of you invites I would be very appreciative. What is wave you ask? Well it is a collaborative document editor that allows users to share and create documents in real time. From the demo videos I have seen you see the participants cursors as the documents develop. I guess in that respect it is also an instant messenger. I imagine that you could use it to organise events with friends, so rather than emails flying around we just create a shared space and start contributing. After the event you could post pictures etc. So also has features currently fulfilled by facebook. Please if you have a spare invite send it to me.  Windows 7 I have not been to good recently at adding posts to the old blog. Today however an email arrived which has compelled me to blog something. I applied to be a windows 7 launch party host, was successful, and today I got confirmation that DHL have shipped the Windows 7 Signature Edition with free upgrade to 64bit version. The goodies are actually very nice, Windows 7 tote bags, Windows 7 branded napkins, a puzzle pack, Windows 7 playing cards, a colour poster and of course the piece de resistance, a FULL copy of Windows 7 Ultimate Edition (Steve Ballmer Signature Edition), and an anytime Upgrade to Ultimate Signature 64 bit edition. A nice bonus! Thanks to all those who accepted the party invites.  This blog entry is bought via windows speech recognition. I thought I would give the features a try. I am using windows of this for you access the speech recognition features from the speech recognition option in control panel, you need to make sure that your microphone is well placed and the sound levels are right. It helps if you go through the tutorial as lists is the way of teaching your computer help to understand the nuances of your voice.So far so good as long as I speak then this seems to do a good job for recognising my voice. For example in this blog entry I have trouble with the first sentence two of the words were not recognise correctly. I have also noticed that’s even though I selected United Kingdom as the language it appears to be using American spelling, for example if recognizing oneself with a Z.
If this works out well the idea for be for me to record log entries on a recording device, then find a way of getting windows to convert the recording into a text. I am not sure how successful this will be part I have noticed that there are quite a few open source software programs that claim to do the job.
I suspect that I’m need to get a better microphone because the one that I am currently using does not go very far into the from the section on the microphone test programme.
 Speech options This blog entry is bought via windows speech recognition. I thought I would give the features a try. I am using windows of this for you access the speech recognition features from the speech recognition option in control panel, you need to make sure that your microphone is well placed and the sound levels are right. It helps if you go through the tutorial as lists is the way of teaching your computer help to understand the nuances of your voice. So far so good as long as I speak then this seems to do a good job for recognising my voice. For example in this blog entry I have trouble with the first sentence two of the words were not recognise correctly. I have also noticed that’s even though I selected United Kingdom as the language it appears to be using American spelling, for example if recognizing oneself with a Z. If this works out well the idea for me to record blog entries on a recording device, then find a way of getting windows to convert the recording into a text. I am not sure how successful this will be part I have noticed that there are quite a few open source software programs that claim to do the job. I suspect that I’m need to get a better microphone because the one that I am currently using does not go very far into the from the section on the microphone test programme. |
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