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Microsoft Research Demos Their Translating Telephone Project

Posted on02. Mar, 2010 by zevmo.

There are many translating devices and services that primarily take written text in a chat window, and attempt to translate it into different languages.  For example, one I use is VoxOx.  What if there was a way to have a near-real-time phone conversation, while the whole thing was being transcribed and translated?  Microsoft Research is [...]

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What’s all the Buzz at Google? [First Look]

Posted on10. Feb, 2010 by zevmo.

Today, the tech universe has been blogging about Buzz, a new Dr. Moreau synergistic (I had to put that word in) evolution to Twitter, Google Wave, GMail, Facebook Wall, and FourSquare.  On paper, it seems like a really great idea.  So, is it?
My first impressions are relatively positive.  This service will definitely get better.  But I [...]

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YouTube using new control buttons?

Posted on28. Jan, 2010 by zevmo.

Checking out some Melvin Machismo videos on YouTube, and it looks like they are playing around with some new control icons.  Take a look…

These are very minor changes, but I like it.

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Tags: ads, Controls, LAN, Mac, OS, Videos, Watch, Web, Web Technologies, youtube

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Google’s fading home page

Posted on09. Dec, 2009 by zevmo.

If you are like me, you have been wondering what the hell is going on with Google’s home page fading in the text (see video below).  I am one for experiments, but does this make much sense?
I think just about everyone knows that Google is a search engine (hopefully), and I thought maybe it was [...]

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Google Chrome for Mac (Beta)

Posted on09. Dec, 2009 by zevmo.

Yesterday Google released the Chrome browser for the Mac (Beta).  We’ve been looking forward to this for a long time.
I will try it out and report on it!

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Tags: ads, Ai, Apple, Beta, Browser, Browser, Chrome, Google, Mac

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Great site for looking at tech product reviews

Posted on27. Nov, 2009 by zevmo.

The holy grail in Technology is finding the right product, at the right price, at the right time in a product’s life-cycle.  Retrevo tries to coordinate these different factors, and give customers a decent smattering of review site related to that product.
There are a few very cool parts of the site.  I really appreciate the [...]

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YouTube learning from Hulu?

Posted on26. Nov, 2009 by zevmo.

Looking through several tile repair videos, I was hit up with an advertisement on YouTube. Surprise! Gee, you think Google is trying to figure out a way to pay for this site, and the 1080p future of content?
I found it very interesting that a 1 minute, 54 second video had a 30 second ad. They [...]

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Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 crash

Posted on28. Oct, 2009 by zevmo.

All browsers crash.  I don’t care what anyone says.  But running Mozilla Firefox 3.6 Beta 1, I found a cool little feature.  Previously, when your browser crashed, you would have the option of restoring upon restart.
Many browsers (IE, Safari, Opera) are offering this feature now.  Firefox took this operation to another level.  Usually it is [...]

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