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Clearing the Clutter by Building an Efficient Email Inbox
Posted by Serges LaRiviere on Fri, Feb 17, 2012
Tags: email Inbox, email, productivity
When the iPhone 4S came out, the big deal was the inclusion of Siri, the voice controlled “intelligent personal assistant” which answers your questions, refers people to businesses and places phone calls for you. It was an offshoot of a military project funded by DARPA
Have you ever noticed when you download or install a file you get a progress bar that really gives no real time indication of how long the process will take? Why is i
t that a computer can’t figure out how long something will take to download? Well it seems that when you see a progress bar it really only means that your in for a wait and your computer has no way of knowing how long it will take. it would seem all a computer would have to do is divide the total file size by the measure rate of the download . But download speed is unpredictable, subject to the ebbs and flows of your connection, the busyness of the files server and the performance of your router.
Mobile Device Viruses: Your iPhone and Android are not immune
Posted by Serges LaRiviere on Sat, Jan 28, 2012
Tags: Viruses, mobile phones, android, iphone
The Cloud: a catch-all tech phrase for the location of any program or data that does not reside on your home computer, but where is it really?
Tags: cloud, Computer, Data Backup
It turns out the star of the iPhone 4S was not the phone itself but rather Siri, the iPhone voice recognition software. Unlike traditional voice-recognition of the past that made you bark commands; Siri understands natural language, the same language we use to navigate the world.
Tags: apple, iphone, siri, voice recognition
Tags: Video Games, Parental Controls, Parenting