Change of plans today. Kyle is home from school so it's a work day instead of the Sims time I normally have on days when everyone is at school & work. I'm really loving this dual monitor thing. Besides having 2 screens, the new monitor/TV is so much brighter than my old monitor & the resolution is much better. It's very noticeable when I drag something from the old screen to the new one. I can expand the program out to have much more viewing space. Sweet! I can't wait to try Sims on the new screen. Maybe later today if everything goes well. Yesterday I checked My AT&T/Yahoo page, talked to Paul about FD business, then set up a clock with AnyTime. The program has pop out clocks that you can place on your desktop. I really like the clock, but I can't get it to stay there when I reboot the computer. I may have to go back to my gadget clock because it's always there even after shutting down my computer & restarting it. Speaking of things starting up with my PC, I discovered my 1st "issue" with Win8. No startup folder! I went through all kinds of help menus & searches & finally found help on the Internet, but it was such a hassle adding IE to the startup sequence that it really annoyed me. I had to add IE because if I shut down with 2 FireFox windows open, it only remembers the tabs for 1 of them. This way, I can have saved tabs in both browsers so they each open in the correct monitor with the correct "different" tabs in each. After setting up the AnyTime clock, I talked to Pete for a while, then Paul again, then around 6:30p finally had breakfast. I had one of my favorites ... an over easy egg with buttered toast. Then it was time to clean the house ... I cleaned the bathroom counter, neatened my bedroom end table, watered the dining room plant, neatened our silverware drawer in the kitchen, & neatened a shelf on 1 of my office bookshelves & ended up giving Kyle a couple folders that I wasn't using that he wanted. I then went to work on eBay & chatted with Chris in IM until Pete got home from the City Council Meeting. Once Pete got home I started the beef roast & we watched NCIS which made me cry & NCIS: Los Angeles & then headed to bed. EMS Training in Anna tonight @ 7.
Are a lot of you affected by the recession? Lost a lot of jobs here in Southern California. Some of the fanciest restaurants in Los Angeles have closed ... & some of the people who work there, like the maitre d', who are pretty snooty, have to go someplace else to pick up a job. One of the maitre d's at one of the better-known restaurants was reduced to working as a men's room attendant. And I had to go ... & I walk in & he says, "I can seat you at 6:30 or 9:30." -Johnny Carson 1991
Every time you get paid, ask for 2 rolls of quarters. Put the rolls in a piggy bank. In 6 months' time, you've saved hundreds of dollars.
Keep a framed photo of the Olympic beach vollyball team on your desk.
Reasons to join the Army top 10:
- Money
- To get away from parents
- Test of courage
- Patriotism
- New experience
- Good career
- Need a job
- Family tradition
- Learn new skills
- Pride
On this day in 2007, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone—a
touchscreen mobile phone with an iPod, camera and Web-browsing
capabilities, among other features—at the Macworld convention in San Francisco.
Jobs, dressed in his customary jeans and black mock turtleneck, called
the iPhone a "revolutionary and magical product that is literally five
years ahead of any other mobile phone." When it went on sale in the United States
six months later, on June 29, amidst huge hype, thousands of customers
lined up at Apple stores across the country to be among the first to
purchase an iPhone.
In November 2007—by which point more than 1.4 million iPhones had been sold—Time magazine named the sleek, 4.8-ounce device, originally available in a 4GB, $499 model and an 8GB, $599 model, its invention of the year. The iPhone went on sale in parts of Europe in late 2007, and in parts of Asia in 2008. In July 2008, Apple launched its online App Store, enabling people to download software applications that let them use their iPhones for games, social networking, travel planning and an every growing laundry list of other activities. Apple went on to release updated models of the iPhone, including the 4S, which debuted in October 2011 and featured Siri, a voice-activated digital assistant.
The iPhone helped turned Apple, which Jobs (1955-2011) co-founded with his friend Stephen Wozniak in California in 1976, into one of the planet's most valuable corporations. In 2012, five years after the iPhone's debut, more than 200 million had been sold. The iPhone joined a list of innovative Apple products, including the Macintosh (launched in 1984, it was one of the first personal computers to feature a graphical user interface, which allowed people to navigate by pointing and clicking a mouse rather than typing commands) and the iPod portable music player (launched in 2001), that became part of everyday modern life.
In November 2007—by which point more than 1.4 million iPhones had been sold—Time magazine named the sleek, 4.8-ounce device, originally available in a 4GB, $499 model and an 8GB, $599 model, its invention of the year. The iPhone went on sale in parts of Europe in late 2007, and in parts of Asia in 2008. In July 2008, Apple launched its online App Store, enabling people to download software applications that let them use their iPhones for games, social networking, travel planning and an every growing laundry list of other activities. Apple went on to release updated models of the iPhone, including the 4S, which debuted in October 2011 and featured Siri, a voice-activated digital assistant.
The iPhone helped turned Apple, which Jobs (1955-2011) co-founded with his friend Stephen Wozniak in California in 1976, into one of the planet's most valuable corporations. In 2012, five years after the iPhone's debut, more than 200 million had been sold. The iPhone joined a list of innovative Apple products, including the Macintosh (launched in 1984, it was one of the first personal computers to feature a graphical user interface, which allowed people to navigate by pointing and clicking a mouse rather than typing commands) and the iPod portable music player (launched in 2001), that became part of everyday modern life.
Stitcher Radio:
★ 20 Best Apps of 2012-TechCrunch
★ 12 Best Entertainment Apps of 2012-PCWorld
★ TOP 5 NEWS APPS -Apple
Listen to your favorite news, comedy, sports and talk radio shows ON DEMAND from your mobile device. Discover the best of NPR, CNN, Fox, BBC, WSJ, Adam Carolla, SModcast, Joe Rogan, Rachel Maddow, Rush Limbaugh, Fresh Air, Freakonomics, Radiolab and over 15,000+ shows and live stations. Change the way you listen to radio - on your schedule, not the schedule of traditional stations.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
CNET: “Stitcher provides a slick solution to those looking for customized audio programming - it's to news and information what Pandora is to music.”
BUSINESS WEEK: “Web outfits like Pandora and Stitcher broadcast portable and mobile content that makes Sirius look overpriced and stodgy.”
GIZMODO: “Stitcher collects and stitches together spoken word radio content...Think of it as your local public radio station, times 400.”
MACWORLD: “Stitcher Radio is Remarkable.”
KEY FEATURES:
✦ CREATE CUSTOM STATIONS: “Stitch” together your favorite shows to create your own customized stations. Stitcher can create stations based on shows you like.
✦ DISCOVER NEW SHOWS: Stitcher helps you find new shows you’ll love by recommending shows based on your listening activity.
✦ LISTEN ON DEMAND: You’re always up to date with the latest episodes of your favorite shows, without the hassle of downloading and syncing. You can also listen to past episodes.
✦ SHARE WITH FRIENDS: Connect your Facebook account to discover what your friends are listening to and share your favorite shows.
✦ GET BREAKING NEWS: Keep up with the day’s biggest stories with the Stitcher Front Page and via breaking news audio alerts.
Stitcher is the easiest way to stay connected to the information that’s important to you while on the go. Stitcher Radio is a smarter way to listen to the radio.
AWARDS & PRAISE
★ Wired "Essential Driving App" 2012
★ Apple Top 5 News App
★ TechCrunch "20 Best Apps of 2012"
★ PC World – 12 Best Entertainment Apps of 2012
★ Webby's People's Voice Award
★ PC Magazine Top 100 Apps
★ Best News App - Best App Ever Awards
★ 12 Best Entertainment Apps of 2012-PCWorld
★ TOP 5 NEWS APPS -Apple
Listen to your favorite news, comedy, sports and talk radio shows ON DEMAND from your mobile device. Discover the best of NPR, CNN, Fox, BBC, WSJ, Adam Carolla, SModcast, Joe Rogan, Rachel Maddow, Rush Limbaugh, Fresh Air, Freakonomics, Radiolab and over 15,000+ shows and live stations. Change the way you listen to radio - on your schedule, not the schedule of traditional stations.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
CNET: “Stitcher provides a slick solution to those looking for customized audio programming - it's to news and information what Pandora is to music.”
BUSINESS WEEK: “Web outfits like Pandora and Stitcher broadcast portable and mobile content that makes Sirius look overpriced and stodgy.”
GIZMODO: “Stitcher collects and stitches together spoken word radio content...Think of it as your local public radio station, times 400.”
MACWORLD: “Stitcher Radio is Remarkable.”
KEY FEATURES:
✦ CREATE CUSTOM STATIONS: “Stitch” together your favorite shows to create your own customized stations. Stitcher can create stations based on shows you like.
✦ DISCOVER NEW SHOWS: Stitcher helps you find new shows you’ll love by recommending shows based on your listening activity.
✦ LISTEN ON DEMAND: You’re always up to date with the latest episodes of your favorite shows, without the hassle of downloading and syncing. You can also listen to past episodes.
✦ SHARE WITH FRIENDS: Connect your Facebook account to discover what your friends are listening to and share your favorite shows.
✦ GET BREAKING NEWS: Keep up with the day’s biggest stories with the Stitcher Front Page and via breaking news audio alerts.
Stitcher is the easiest way to stay connected to the information that’s important to you while on the go. Stitcher Radio is a smarter way to listen to the radio.
AWARDS & PRAISE
★ Wired "Essential Driving App" 2012
★ Apple Top 5 News App
★ TechCrunch "20 Best Apps of 2012"
★ PC World – 12 Best Entertainment Apps of 2012
★ Webby's People's Voice Award
★ PC Magazine Top 100 Apps
★ Best News App - Best App Ever Awards
Tweet Speaker:
How would you like to hear your Twitter home timeline whilst driving to
work, sitting at work, listening to your iPod or whilst in the kitchen
cooking your meal?
That's exactly why SocialSpeaker was created, because the other applications that I tried didn't work 'hands-free'; I really wanted to hear my Tweets without interacting with an app.
I now drive to work listening to my iPod and then it reduces the volume of the music (this is commonly known as ducking) to read out the new Tweets, then returns the music to the original level. If you have a Bluetooth stereo system in your car, or an Auxillary output, you will substantially improve the experience as the audio quality is significantly better.
After trying open-source text-to-speech libraries, SocialSpeaker decided that the quality was not sufficient, resulting in us licencing the best iPhone text-to-speech library, enabling you to clearly hear tweets.
Rather than rushing out SocialSpeaker with just the 'Speaker' facility originally intended, the product now contains a historical view, so that you can replay tweets, or reply to tweets.
Some of the features you will find are:
* Hands-free audio to hear your Twitter timeline
* Mixing with your iPod audio so that the audio levels adjust (Ducking)
* Highest audio quality speech, utilising Acapela (note, the initial version has only a single male voice)
* Visual feedback when collecting messages from Twitter, or for when SocialSpeaker cannot connect.
* A clean and simple user interface
* History view of tweets, so that you can see what tweets you might have missed when you left the room.
* Replay tweets (single tweet, or the ability to replay all before/after the selected tweet)
* The ability to reply to tweets
* Support for iOS 3.2+
* Volume adjustment without leaving the application
* Smooth animations / transitions.
Who should not buy SocialSpeaker? If you do not have many followers, for example if you only receive one or two tweets in a day, then SocialSpeaker will not be for you. If you have lots of followers, or receive a tweet at least every 30 minutes, then SocialSpeaker could be of use to you.
Known issues at this time...
* Following a link within the application will open the external Safari browser, when you return to SocialSpeaker it will only show new tweets.
That's exactly why SocialSpeaker was created, because the other applications that I tried didn't work 'hands-free'; I really wanted to hear my Tweets without interacting with an app.
I now drive to work listening to my iPod and then it reduces the volume of the music (this is commonly known as ducking) to read out the new Tweets, then returns the music to the original level. If you have a Bluetooth stereo system in your car, or an Auxillary output, you will substantially improve the experience as the audio quality is significantly better.
After trying open-source text-to-speech libraries, SocialSpeaker decided that the quality was not sufficient, resulting in us licencing the best iPhone text-to-speech library, enabling you to clearly hear tweets.
Rather than rushing out SocialSpeaker with just the 'Speaker' facility originally intended, the product now contains a historical view, so that you can replay tweets, or reply to tweets.
Some of the features you will find are:
* Hands-free audio to hear your Twitter timeline
* Mixing with your iPod audio so that the audio levels adjust (Ducking)
* Highest audio quality speech, utilising Acapela (note, the initial version has only a single male voice)
* Visual feedback when collecting messages from Twitter, or for when SocialSpeaker cannot connect.
* A clean and simple user interface
* History view of tweets, so that you can see what tweets you might have missed when you left the room.
* Replay tweets (single tweet, or the ability to replay all before/after the selected tweet)
* The ability to reply to tweets
* Support for iOS 3.2+
* Volume adjustment without leaving the application
* Smooth animations / transitions.
Who should not buy SocialSpeaker? If you do not have many followers, for example if you only receive one or two tweets in a day, then SocialSpeaker will not be for you. If you have lots of followers, or receive a tweet at least every 30 minutes, then SocialSpeaker could be of use to you.
Known issues at this time...
* Following a link within the application will open the external Safari browser, when you return to SocialSpeaker it will only show new tweets.
When we open our mouths to describe what we see, we in effect describe ourselves, our perceptions, our paradigms.
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