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Screedbot animated typewriter gif…

I have to say that I find this kind of interesting or cool, although I can not currently think of any practical applications for using a screebot to create a scrolling typewriter effect.

So I’m just filing it away for future use on my blog.
http://wigflip.com/screedbot/

http://top10tech.com/web/

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Using YouTube to Get People Hyped for the Holidays

This is going to be an atypical holiday season for many many people.  Budgets and wallets and credit lines are tight everywhere, and Santa is still paying his gas bill from last year. Things just won’t be the same as people start to get into the holiday shopping spirit whether you compare prices like crazy when you are online shopping.

ShopandConfess and eBillme started a year long contest last February that seems to be in a sweet spot going into the holidays today.

Considering that many people are seeing their credit card credit lines dropped, halved and squeezed the eBillme model now makes a lot more sense, but regardless the chance to win $1,500 (in November or December) or the Grand Prize of $15,000 is looking a lot sweeter too!

If you place an entry into the contest, please consider referring our site (top10tech.com)  :)  We’d like to see you win, and know that we helped make Christmas a little easier on your finances.

For those of you looking into ways to use video to get your message across the web or kick of a great campaign, this is a terrific example of how to do it right, and also how to plant that seed early (feb 2008) and be at the right place at the right time never hurts either! 

Here’s that contest link one more time.

Utterli Bug Found in Batman’s Pants!

I found this Utterli bug in Batman’s pants. Or more specifically when I was creating this joke about Batman’s pants.

1. I uploaded an image
2. noticed that i had a mis-spelling in a bubble
3. deleted the image not the post
4. replaced it with a corrected image of the same file name
5. realized that the corrected image shows up in the small image, but not on the larger - expanded image
6. so the clear image button, is clearing the small image but not the large image.

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So now that I’m past this fooling around with silly images, I need to get back to work working on a side project I’ve been doing testing the conversion speeds of Dragon NaturallySpeaking converting MP3 files into text. I’ve been trying to figure out if the conversion will be faster going from MP3 to Text vs. MP3 to WAV to Text and then conversely if they will be more accurately transcribed to text from MP3 to WAV.

My thought process here is that MP3 files are compressed and its possible that Dragon is having to uncompress to transcribe and then convert, so maybe by handing the file to Dragon in WAV it might save some processor cycles and increase accuracy.

So for example, if I were in college, I could record a teacher’s lecture, transcribe it to text, then study for a test by listening to the audio on my MP3 players while reading the lecture notes from my transcription at the same time.