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Discount coupon for Dragon NaturallySpeaking

You might have spotted the blog post I made on my other blog when I gave Dragon NaturallySpeaking a whirl. I was pretty impressed by the speech recognition capabilities, and I wasn’t the only one. Brett, the person who introduced me to the product had a write-up where he talks about the package and how…

Teaching a Dragon to spell

I’ve been playing with Dragon NaturallySpeaking for a couple of days now and came across a post by SuperZ a fellow blogger who actually had to teach Dragon to spell his name. Here’s his experience: I couldn’t write that name before using Dragon NaturallySpeaking until I trained Dragon NaturallySpeaking to recognize the name SuperZ. I…

WP Auctions Gold Version

You might have noticed the little widget in my sidebar showing things that I’m selling through this blog. Well, it’s a plugin called WP Auctions which I’ve written with Hyder from Weborithm. It lets you sell things straight off your WordPress blog, without haing to pay any listing fees, gallery fees or any of the…

WP Auctions: Fee Free Online Auctions!

Every once in a while some new product comes along which changes the way that things are done. This time it�s eBay�s dominance in the online auctions market that is about to be shaken! Everyone can now auction off their products, stuff in their garage and run an auction blog FEE FREE thanks to WP…

Taking Backups

Taking backups is always a good idea. It’s just proved useful for me, not because I’ve had a catastrophic failure and needed everything back, but because I accidentally saved one document over another and needed to get the original back. I started playing with iBackup some time back and had taken an archive of my…

Getting my hands dirty

Been getting my hands dirty with some development recently but having some challenges setting up my development environment. I’ve gone down the route of creating a virtual server for the work, so I can isolate it off my main machine, and also keep it portable. It’s fun getting things working but I have a pesky…

Windows Live Writer to the rescue

I’m sitting in Gatwick at the moment without an Internet connection, but I’m writing posts for my blogs thanks to Windows Live Writer. I’ve blogged about this in the past, but it’s the first time I’ve used it in an offline mode, saving my posts as Draft so that they can be published to my…

Piles of spam

Spam has become a certainty today, just like death and taxes. I start my day usually by deleting a couple hundred spam emails and delete more and more through the day. It’s not too bad, but when I go on holiday (like I did last week), I come back to literally thousands of spam emails….

Add a map to your blog

It gives me great pleasure to let everyone know that I’ve managed to get my latest WordPress plugin out of the door. It’s a sidebar widget I’ve called GeoWidget that lets you add a map to your website. You an use the map for anything you like. You can show where you live, where your…

Taking photography seriously

I was chatting with Camille yesterday about her photography and realised just how passionate she has become about it. She’s currently doing a City and Guilds course, but she might want to take it even further. I did notice that you can even do a Masters in Photography at the Brooks Photography School, so I’m…

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