Review of Siri on iPhone 4s
Posted on October 26, 2011 at 5:06 am
When Apple announced that the next generation of iPhone would include a voice controlled personal assistant called Siri, we were skeptical. Sure, text-to-speech and speech-to-tect recognition has improved greatly over the past few years, but the type of artificial intelligence that Apple described at the announcement meetings seemed way too good to be true. The commercials for Siri seem like something out of Star Trek or The Jetsons.
After more than a week of putting Siri through its paces of our everyday lives, our initial impression is very favorable.
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Solve PC Problems With Microsoft Fix it Solution Center
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 6:12 am
When you encounter an error with a Microsoft product, such as Office or Windows, your first instinct may be to go to your favorite search engine for help. Many results will take you to popular blogs, forums and the Microsoft knowledge base. While all of these may provide great results, you could have your problems fixed quicker by using the Microsoft Fix it Solution Center.
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Opt Out of Advertising Tracking Cookies
Posted on October 25, 2011 at 5:55 am
A few years ago, the powers-that-be in the United States instituted a national Do Not Call List, which gives citizens the power to opt-out of telemarketing phone calls. Internet advertisements can be just as intrusive as telemarketing phone calls, yet no Do Not Track List is even proposed in congress.
SelectOut.org is not a Do Not Track List, but it is the closest thing to it currently available.
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How to Block Sites from Showing up on Google Search
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 6:57 am
If you find you do a lot of searching on the same keywords, and there are certain sites that you keep seeing that are not helpful, and in fact tend to get in your way, there is a way to block them so they won’t ever show up in on your Google searches again.
Note: This only works for Google Chrome 9, Explorer 8 or 9, or Firefox 3.5 or later.
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Dynamically Link an Excel Spreadsheet into a Word 2010 Document
Posted on October 24, 2011 at 5:43 am
There are times when you’re working in both Word and Excel where you’d like the data that you’re using in Excel to appear in your word document as a table, but you’d also like any changes you make to the Excel sheet to be automatically updated in your Word document. This is possible using dynamic links with OLE objects.
To see how this works, first open and create a simple Excel spreadsheet, in this example, we’ll use this simple example sheet:
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Check the Social Media Profile, Traffic and Value of any Web Site
Posted on October 23, 2011 at 5:57 am
Most Web site owners use Google Analytics to track their traffic and ad campaigns, but unfortunately, Google Analytics only gives part of the overall picture of a Web site. Google can show search keywords that landed visitors on the site, the country in which visitors live and even how long they spent on the site. However, Google does not provide a clear picture of how a site looks to social media, which is becoming increasingly important.
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