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Nuance’s Dragon Naturally Speaking 10
Product Review
I dictated this review into a microphone. My typist was Dragon Naturally Speaking 10 Professional. It had the job of setting my words into type using Microsoft Word on a Netbook computer.
Any correction that was made during the editing process was marked so you can see specifically how well Dragon handled my dictation. When the program transcribed an error I added in the correct word, phrase, etc. in red and placed the incorrect word or phrase in brackets. It is now time to rest my fingers and let Dragon do the typing.
Program Performance - Excellent
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Solid State Drives
Google’s new Chrome OS is about to show up in a slew of new netbook computers that will all have SSDs.
Flash memory, which is a form of Solid State Memory, is already the mass storage system of choice in cell phones, many iPod models, and most other small handheld electronic devices.
Is the SSD about to become the mass storage device
of choice?
How is an SSD superior to an HDD?
How difficult is it to replace an HDD with an SSD in a Netbook Computer?
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SSD vs HDD
the Battle Begins
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ASUS CrossLink
A Simple Way to Synchronize Two Computers
The ASUS CrossLink isn’t much to look at. It is a USB 2GB thumb drive with its own synchronizing cable and built in software. You use it to connect two computers together so the data on each machine can be synchronized.
When CrossLink is connected both computers will then show you the same dialog box for you to choose which operation you want to perform. The instruction manual for CrossLink is a PDF file on the thumb drive.
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Imation Pro WX
World's first Secure Wireless External Hard Drive
The Imation Pro WX is a wireless external hard drive that provides secure read/write communication to and from your computer without a wired connection. See photo 1. It is packaged with a pre-matched USB host adapter that you plug into one of the USB ports on your computer. The Pro WX establishes secure 1:1 wireless communication with your computer through this adapter.
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Roku helps TV Join the Internet
 Many new TV models now come with built-in modules that allow viewers to easily stream Internet content from their home broadband wired or wireless network. A TV Internet link from Roku, Sezmi, Boxee, Neuros, Vudu, your game machine, or other portal device is not the same as purchasing the next generation Digital Video Recorder (Tivo).This column explores TV's evolution to the internet.
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Laser Guided Wearable Camcorder
Catch your extreme sports antics with this wearable camera. You can capture a full 135 degree panoramic of your action stunts.
You can shoot HD (1280x720) at 30fps or you can shoot SD (848x480) at 60fps. Your (mov) file is stored on a micro SD card.
The camera uses 2 lasers to align your shots and you can rotate the lens 180 degrees to match the camera's alignment with the location where it is mounted.
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Video Enhancement
Software
If you watch CSI you often see crime scene investigators improve video quality.
MotionDSP designs this type of video enhancement software for police and government agencies.
They have created vReveal software for the consumer market. With this software you can enhance any video you shoot.
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Seeing is Believing
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WikiReader (OpenMoko Inc.)
Are you smarter than a 5th grader?
The WikiReader is a small $99.00 handheld device. It contains the same three million Wikipedia Encyclopedia articles that children and adults read on the Internet to check facts and perform elementary research.
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WikiReader
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Casio's
EX-S12
Casio recently released a new series of cameras that can create dynamic digital pictures. The EX-S12 has this best shot function that lets you lasso people, pets, or movable objects out of one scene and then insert them into a different photo.
This is only one of the amazing new features you will find on this camera. It gives you the power to create amazing photos that can defy gravity, logic, or even the space-time continuum.
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3m's SCP716
Can literally turn your classroom's whiteboard into a fully functional Smartboard. 3M and Tablo
Hantech Tablo
It has a special wireless pen that allows you to treat your notebook screen as if it was a tablet PC. 3M and Tablo
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Pisat K-Light Solar Lantern
Comes with its own 1.5 watt solar panel recharger. The lantern's light contains 16 white LED bulbs.
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The Magellan
RoadMate 1430
The Magellan RoadMate 1430 has a 4.3 inch color touch screen, street by street detailed maps of the United States and Canada, 6 million points of interest (POI's), a speech synthesizer that says the street names and highway names of impending turns, QuickSpell for entering addresses, an SD card slot, and a live traffic option feature that can help you avoid road delays. Magellan lists the live traffic coverage areas on its website at: Goto: Magellan /traffic
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The Rebit Computer Backup System
Total Operating System, Software, & File Recovery
The Rebit backup drive automatically copies everything that is on your computer. To say this as succinctly as possible, if it is on your computer Rebit will find it, copy it, and place it at your disposal. If you need to restore a single file or perform a total restoration to a new or reformatted hard disk drive, Rebit makes it quick and painless.
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Zoombak
A James Bond Style
Tracking Device
Zoombak is a GPS locator not a GPS navigator. So it could find your current location but not help you find your intended destination.
Another way of putting this is Zoombak is more James Bond than Map Quest.
Zoombak is designed to locate people, pets, or vehicles that have been tagged with the device. It is designed to tell the person who tagged you or your vehicle your current location.
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Casio Exilim EX-FH20
Casio has developed a new high speed CMOS/LSI technology (complementary metal oxide semiconductor large-scale integration) which allows their just released Exilim EX-FH20 camera to process the data generated as you shoot 40 high resolution images in just one second.
Click the link to learn about these
amazing features
20x Optical Zoom, Pre-record, High Speed Night Scene,
High Speed Anti-Shake,
Multi-Motion Image,
Digital Panning
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Black & Decker
Power Monitor
People are frustrated by their inability to control their energy use and the amount of money that this energy costs. The Black & Decker Power Monitor is designed to help people conserve electricity by helping them constantly monitor their electricity usage. This product can help you save money at home.
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Black & Decker
SmartScan
The Decker SmartScan, auto diagnostic tool, can help you self diagnose your 1995 or newer vehicle. It will work on all 1995 or newer foreign or domestic vehicle's sold in the placecountry-regionUS because they are all equipped with the OBD 2 (on board diagnostic 2nd generation) system.
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Slacker Radio
Slacker Radio, has actually invented a new type of portable radio player (Photo 1). After you properly set up your computer, Slacker Radio’s G2 can automatically download future free personal radio programming. The Slacker G2 player receives its free music from slacker.com
(view video).
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Picture This - Digital Frame
Revolution
Thanks to the camera-empowered cell phone and the pocket-sized digital camera people are constantly shooting photos. Now, if your goal is to view and share all of these photos without a computer, you should explore the advantages and disadvantages of a digital picture frame.
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Clickfree Automatic
Backup
The products have all the active software necessary to automatically start and perform the backup without your assistance.
Their $9.95 backup
solution...
Their $129.99 backup solution
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Casio Ex-Z150
The Casio EX-Z150 is
an 8.1 megapixel camera that
can produce monaural videos
and high quality photographs. It features a 28mm wide angle 4X optical zoom lens, a CCD shift anti-shake technology, a face detection feature, and a very bright 3.0 inch LCD screen.
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DiscPainter
The Dymo DiscPainter is a small inkjet printer that directly prints your own full color CD or DVD label designs directly onto the surface of your spinning printable discs. It uses its one tricolor (RGB) ink cartridge to print from edge to hub in about one minute.
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Crazy Talk 5 Pro
With CrazyTalk 5 Pro you can take old photographs or drawings and breathe life into a character’s face by turning the face into an animated face puppet.
You choose the face which can be human, animal, insect, cartoon, or even a whimsical talking vegetable or tree trunk.
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Kingston's Mobilelite
Card Reader
The new Kingston Mobilelite card reader isn’t much larger than the average thumb drive.
But don’t let its small size fool you. It can read 9 different flash memory cards.
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Wet Electronics
You probably already know that your average electronic device can basically drown in a miniscule amount of water. The enjoyment of all water sports or near water activities would be enhanced if your electronic devices could be made water safe.
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Empowering Children
They want to provide laptop computers to the almost 2 billion children who live in parts of the world where poverty and the lack of an adequate structured educational system make it impossible for them to receive an adequate education.
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XO Computer
 One Laptop per child
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PinnacleStudioPlus 11
This program is a very powerful software package that you can use to turn your old videos into digital productions and your new HDV camcorder movies into true 1080i high definition videos.
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OLED TV
OLED screens have an organic semiconductor layer sandwiched between a transparent positive electrode layer and a nontransparent negative electrode layer. The flow of electrons between the two outer layers causes the individual organic cells in the organic layer to glow.
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Casio EX-V8 Camera
At this time the eBay Best Shot Mode, the YouTube Best Shot Mode, and the continuous still photo shutter mode are 3 features that only appear on some of the newest Casio EXILIM cameras.
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Belkin Network USB Hub
The addition of the Belkin Network USB Hub could provide you with wireless connectivity to probably all of your support devices when you are within range of your current wireless network.
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The Picoo Z Helicopter
The Picoo Z helicopter is tiny in size and extremely light in weight and it compensates for its size/weight limitations by being tons of fun to fly. And 3 controllers can independently control their own helicopters for simultaneous flying .
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Laser TV
Novalux’s optoelectronic chipset uses a gallium arsenide laser combined with a lithium niobate crystal (LiNbO3) optic modulator to produce the critical wavelengths to output RGB (red, green, and blue) beams of light. Once you have red, green, and blue light you can create all the colors of the rainbow.
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Car MD
The Car MD diagnostic unit is an interactive tool that is designed to hel the average car owner determine the health of their motor vehicle. It can help you determine why your check engine light is on and whether the light is indicating a major or minor problem.
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Virgin Mobile's
Switch Back Phone
Switch Back is a new Virgin Mobile digital phone. In its closed position it is a standard bar phone. Flip it open you find a larger screen and a full QWERTY keyboard for text messaging plus.
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VHS to DVD 2.0
The recording medium used to make video recordings has a lifespan of five to seven years.
Your current precious moments are sentenced to death if you don't take the time to save them.
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