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Living Room / Re: Anyone using Nuance's 'Dragon Naturally Speaking' or equivalent?

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 25, 2010, 11:55 PM »

Yeah, got mine yesterday ... initial install failed with some obtuse message
I'm a bit disappointed in their documentation - for that price, I expect a real manual, not a pdf  - but that seems to be pretty much in line with current practices.

-barney (November 25, 2010, 09:00 PM)

Mine installed fine but in \Documentation\enx (referred to on the physical quick-ref card) there was… nothing!

At the top level was
Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.pdf. That got me:

Acrobat could not open 'Dragon NaturallySpeaking 11.pdf' because it is either
not a supported file type or because the file has been damaged (for example, it
was sent as an email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded).

To create an Adobe PDF document, go to the source application. Then print the
document to Adobe PDF.

From the supposed masters of PDF at Nuance 

Sloppy job of mastering/duplicating!
Far too many packages have this sort of nonsense occurring.

All the documents are available from Nuance, easy enough to download but still…

Good luck with your experimentation. With a bit of perseverance I reckon you'll be all set.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone using Nuance's 'Dragon Naturally Speaking' or equivalent?

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 25, 2010, 08:36 PM »

I didn't know impecuniousity was contagious over the Web.

-barney (November 23, 2010, 09:31 PM)

Well, I have my Dragon 11, ordered it on Tuesday from Amazon.ca and it arrived at midday today (Thursday).

I've never really bothered to control the computer itself by voice. In the past I've tried that and abandoned it because I found that getting it right was more tedious than it's worth — my hands are working just fine. So, I gave it another go with 11. You're going to need to get in some serious practice before the steel merchant has at you.

I'm pretty sure that you'll be able to make things sing and dance but it will take some effort to become a virtuoso. Perhaps kip can offer useful tips on the fastest way to master the particular aspect of application control. Dragon 11 seems to have no trouble dealing with simple dictation. It has filled out this message for me without difficulty, having picked up and converted my previous vocabulary files.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: <name redacted>

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 25, 2010, 07:02 PM »

If people just rush to the front, fight for the first spot, and so forth?

-worstje (November 25, 2010, 03:14 PM)

But… aren't you creating a free for all program?

But I'm all serious and stuff about this. Haven't you noticed?

I'm beginning to think that your given name must be Ernest.

Anyway, the excitement is mounting 

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Living Room / Re: My Canon IP5000 inkjet is dead :( What now?

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 25, 2010, 06:53 PM »

Trouble with importing is the additional cost of import taxes - plus the inflated prices we suffer on this side of the pond.

-Carol Haynes (November 25, 2010, 06:42 PM)

Yeah, shipping costs as well: it's just not worth it.

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: cross-platform puzzle game - WhirlyWord

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 25, 2010, 06:58 AM »

Enjoy! And see if you can figure out what to do

-timns (November 24, 2010, 10:19 PM)

Clever and addictive 

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: <name redacted>

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 25, 2010, 06:51 AM »

SomethingSomethingSomethingSomethingQ

Consider everything about that letter a hint of what is to come.

-worstje (November 24, 2010, 10:19 PM)

Q? You want us to line up for this?

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Living Room / Re: My Canon IP5000 inkjet is dead :( What now?

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 25, 2010, 06:48 AM »

Do I exaggerate - not a lot judging by some of the ridiculous copyright notices we get bombarded with on DVDs!

-Carol Haynes (November 25, 2010, 03:13 AM)

Thanks.
The only half-decent, CD-printing wireless all in one I've seen here recently is from Epson (Artisan 8xx). I'm leery of Epson, having had two, quite expensive models start flinging ink around like 19th-century schoolboys on a rampage.

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Living Room / Re: My Canon IP5000 inkjet is dead :( What now?

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 24, 2010, 06:03 PM »

FWIW I am now using a Canon XM850 all in one (including fax, sheet feed printing and CD printing) and it is fantastic. I think it has been discontinued but there is an MX860 (I think) that replaced it. If you don't need fax or CD printing try the Pixma MP560 - fantastic, good quality, wireless all-in-one printer.

-Carol Haynes (November 24, 2010, 09:42 AM)

Really, printing on CD?
I have an MX850 and neither it nor the 860 prints on CDs (here, in Canada)

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Living Room / Re: Anyone using Nuance's 'Dragon Naturally Speaking' or equivalent?

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 23, 2010, 08:47 PM »

I just made the order.  Dragon Naturally Speaking Premium 11 Bluetooth

-barney

Well, this topic finally prompted me to move to 11. So now I can blame you for my being impecunious 

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Living Room / Re: Anyone using Nuance's 'Dragon Naturally Speaking' or equivalent?

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 23, 2010, 01:10 PM »

I vaguely remember hearing about that. (And it went in one ear and out the other like so much else does with me these days...)

-40hz (November 23, 2010, 08:55 AM)

People used to ask Van Gogh why he knew so much.

His explanation

Everything I hear goes in one ear…

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Living Room / Re: My Canon IP5000 inkjet is dead :( What now?

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 23, 2010, 08:43 AM »

i had an hp before i had my canon pixma, and i don't think ill ever go back, canon has been a joy to use. 
5 years is a long life for an inkjet, especially given costs of inks vs cost of machine. if it were me, unless it is an expensive wide format printer i'd just dump it and get a new one.

-mouser (November 23, 2010, 08:20 AM)

Not quite on topic but here's a cautionary tale…

• I've used Canon all-in-one machines for grunt work for some years now and been extremely pleased with them.
• Being of a miserly bent, I regularly cursed the cost of printer ink.
• I read all the cautions about using cheap ink.
• Recently, as a trial, I bought and used one set of non-Canon 'bargain' ink.
• Need new print head.

Nobody's fault but my own 

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Living Room / Re: Desktop vs. Web Debate

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 23, 2010, 08:29 AM »

The problems seem to come if one puts oneself in the situation of relying on what's on the web.

I'm slowly (very slowly) beginning to see some merit in this but also I have real concerns.

• I see reports of people left high and dry when their material suddenly becomes inaccessible. In some critical situations, once would be enough to cause real and lasting harm.
• Official bodies regularly lose data, or disseminate what they should not, so I have to assume that this is fairly widespread across all of the web. I trust nobody with material that matters to me.
• Viability is compromised for those of us cast adrift in the dinghy of slow or intermittent web access.
  
  So, from my viewpoint, it maybe okay for non-sensitive, non-critical material.

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Living Room / Re: Are "you" "your friend"?

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 23, 2010, 08:13 AM »

the curious thing about this not that they never learn proper language skills

-Target (November 22, 2010, 07:46 PM)

 

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Living Room / Re: London at 80 gigapixels!

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 22, 2010, 08:55 PM »

Incredible images captured from 425 miles above the Earth's surface

These are pretty good as well.

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Living Room / Re: Are "you" "your friend"?

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 22, 2010, 07:04 PM »

get of my lawn!

-Shades (November 20, 2010, 03:53 PM)

Another grass-roots problem?

-cranioscopical (November 20, 2010, 08:52 PM)

As I originate from Holland...what do you exactly mean with grass? 

-Shades (November 22, 2010, 04:40 PM)

It helps you not to feel for lawn?

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Pledge: <name redacted>

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 22, 2010, 12:31 PM »

Beta Testers

• not available just yet

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Living Room / Re: Anyone using Nuance's 'Dragon Naturally Speaking' or equivalent?

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 22, 2010, 07:00 AM »

For me, Dragon began getting seriously better at around v8.
I've used 10 Preferred since it came out and that was the first edition to really facilitate some some serious work. I find it good enough to dictate a >50 page report.
Version 10 is good enough that I'm not sure the upgrade to v11 will be worth the extra cash.
I believe that starting out with v11 would be easy and effective.
The more horsepower your machine has the better: one wants the accuracy turned up to maximum.

And, sorry to learn of your upcoming discomfort. Best wishes for a good recovery!

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 20, 2010, 08:53 PM »

All pages are ok here...

-timns (November 20, 2010, 02:55 PM)

Same here, P9 is fine.

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Living Room / Re: Are "you" "your friend"?

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 20, 2010, 08:52 PM »

get of my lawn!

-Shades (November 20, 2010, 03:53 PM)

Another grass-roots problem?

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Find And Run Robot / Re: Hotkeys to control windows?

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 19, 2010, 10:02 AM »

There must be a AutoHotkey script out there for minimising/'normalising'/maximising current window - anyone know of one?
I actually use PowerPro for this but it's really complete overkill as I use hardly any of it's other features...

-tomos (November 19, 2010, 04:05 AM)

Try or adapt Skrommel's Winwarden, here on Donationcoder?

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Living Room / Re: Ideas for a website...I need help.

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 18, 2010, 12:22 PM »

Or better yet, a fine parallel port...

-40hz (November 18, 2010, 11:50 AM)

Much better in the morning than that same old, same old serial…

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 18, 2010, 11:10 AM »

New build uploaded...

-timns (November 18, 2010, 10:08 AM)

Ah, a voice from beyond the grave?

 

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Living Room / Re: Are "you" "your friend"?

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 18, 2010, 08:10 AM »

Certainly not! I'm my own worst enemy…

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Living Room / Re: Ideas for a website...I need help.

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 18, 2010, 07:50 AM »

Duck a l'orange with grilled broccoli......


for breakfast........



You guys either have too much money, live in a 5* hotel or it's on the wrong menu

-4wd (November 18, 2010, 04:40 AM)

Damned right, when serving  duck a l'orange for breakfast it always should be accompanied by green beans, not broccoli!

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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Teaser: Auspex - a Windows Productivity App

« Last post by cranioscopical on November 18, 2010, 07:28 AM »

Though this report may be premature, Auspex has expired.