I think it would be really cool if someone could come up with a way to automatically derive written transcriptions from podcasts. This would work similar to speech recognition programs but it needs to be speaker independent to be effective, kind of like closed-captioning used… Read More »
Archive for December 22, 2005
SpellBound works well with Performancing for Firefox, so says Asa. Read More »
Google’s Marissa Mayer over on Official Google Blog clears the air about the current AOL-Google deal, what it means to them and to AOL. There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages. There will not be crazy, flashy, graphical… Read More »
Head over to the show web site to listen directly (5 MB, 7:16 minutes) or Subscribe to jkOnTheRun Audio Edition here (RSS) Today’s show offers up a couple of productivity tips that I think will make your life easier. One of them is for anybody… Read More »
AOL is pushing its ADSL2+ aggressively in Germany, and will roll out the service in 20 cities. It is selling 16Mbps for EUR39.98 per month. Read More »
Point Topic says that “there will be at least 137 million DSL lines by the end of 2005.” Read More »
Andy got a video carol from folks over at Skype … a customized one at that. It immediately made me think – did the video VoIP providers like GloPoint and Vonage, miss an opportunity with the New York Transit strike? What… Read More »
If the cellphone handset line-up from the likes of Nokia, Samsung and LG is any indication, Matt Maier predicts a frenzy of activity around 3G Wireless in 2006, and a lot of these toys could be on display at the CES. In his latest Wireless… Read More »
It is not often you get the chance to see a thoughtful comparison of two Tablet PCs head to head so don’t miss Rob Bushway’s comparison of the Toshiba M200 and the Lenovo ThinkPad X41. Rob lays out how he uses a Tablet PC so… Read More »
Eagle eye Rob Bushway notes that the discontinued HP tc1100 hybrid Tablet PC has shown up again on the HP online store. HP’s announcement they were discontinuing the popular Tablet has generated laments from all over the Tabletscape and now we are left wondering… Read More »
Will a people’s collective be able to beat Google at the search game? That’s the proverbial $64,000 question, and venture investors are trying to answer that by funding start-ups such as Wink, that plans to go live perhaps as soon as Thursday, according to Silicon Valley… Read More »
Editor’s Note: I’m planning on this topic spanning a series of 3, 4, maybe even 5 posts here on The Apple Blog. I hope that all you fine readers out there will add your 2 copper pieces to the mix here, as I would love… Read More »
