I’m sitting on an airplane at the Orlando International Airport and my iPhone GPS shows me at the Atlanta airport. Strange, but true. I’ve even restarted my phone with the same result.
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No Siri to Dictate on Your iPad, No Problem
If you don’t have Siri on your iPad, then the Dragon Dictation App is the next best thing for dictating notes. From all reports the same engine that drives Siri comes from Nuance, which is a company that puts out the Dragon Dictation App.
This is helpful because all the punctuation and commands are all the same. There’s really only one annoying thing about the Dragon Dictation app on the iPad.
And that is after dictating you can’t select text unless you press the keyboard icon, which puts you into the keyboard/typing mode. And this happens frequently when dictating text. You find yourself with one word that is incorrect but the software thinks it’s okay. In those cases you just want to select the word that’s wrong and type in the correct word.
But the way Dragon Dictation works is that after dictating text, each word can be selected, and if there are known corrections they show up in a list so that you can make changes with a quick tap.
And of course the whole reason I put up with this and learn to deal with it, is that dictating text is approximately 5 times faster than typing on a keyboard. And when I say keyboard I mean a normal computer keyboard, which means that dictating text is probably 10 times faster than typing on an iPad keyboard.
There are two things to consider here. The first is that to get all of these speed benefits, you have to speak slower than normal and enunciate your words. The second thing is that by speaking your words it sounds more conversational, which is a good thing when writing a blog post.
Reminders App Tip
File this under good to know: when you’re in the reminders app and your cursor is somewhere besides the end of the text you can hit the return button and enter the entire task, without fear that the task will be split where the cursor resides.
I finally figured out how to use Siri in public. Right now I’m in a Starbucks and have my iPhone with earphones and mic and it looks like I’m talking to somebody on the phone. Little do they know that I’m dictating notes to myself.
I look like some poor bastard that’s stuck on a conference call and gets to speak every once in a while.
How to upgrade tracks to iTunes Match, fast | Macworld
This worked and I learned a little bit about filtering a iTunes Smart Playlist. More importantly, most all my songs are now 256 kbs.
HDR is explained here concisely with examples on when to use it, and when not to use it. Great article.
If you restore a new iOS device from a backup of an old one, usually passwords such as mail account passwords aren’t stored, and you’ll have to enter them again on the new device. However, if your backup was encrypted, the passwords will be kept, making the transition to a new device that much easier.
From a GigaOM article.
NBA Game Time Courtside Updated
NBA playoff brackets are now included with series information. (iPad version)
The NBA Game Time 2010-2011 app for the iPhone has been updated too.
