Pete Moore, the travel writer, just sent me this link. It’s about a new new, temporarily free app for the iPhone.
And the app? Dragon, the speech recognition engine I’ve been using for the past few months!
I haven’t got it yet, but soon as I get home, I will.
Oh, and Abigail, I believe I told you the boys and their guns would totally pwn the ladies lounge in the comment race… as indeed they have. Pop around to Abe’s place with a tenner and we’ll call it even.
Yes, if each burger pops around with a tenner for me, we’ll call it even.
Otherwise, a cheque, if you please, Birmo, or better still, 10 x $1 cheques if you can see your way clear. Thanks.
Hmmmm checking the small print, unable to find the cutoff time for this little challenge. Not saying it’s not there somewhere mind you, I may just need new glasses, but would you be a luv and tell me where.
Thanks ever so!
There’s something about the sound … the feel of chambering a round … that’s right … anyone got a troll whistle?
PS a bolt action feels better to.
PPS what’s the call to let the trolls onto the range.
PPPS remember lots of ammo, we’ve proven they keep coming back.
Laughin’ out loud. Yes, I might have been a little bit slightly completely wrong. But I did buy up on your book stocks ; enough to keep you in board wax for a year.
Oh, and Abe, just how many bets have you got going on this site, ? Is there some rule that we just automatically give you $10 everytime we’re wrong lol! :)
Aw, JB, you shouldn’t be such a tease with a title like “Get it while it’s free.”
Am still breathless from running over here.
Shucks. *stuffs hands in pockets and kicks can*
And they make it sound so easy. From old posts,I could have sworn you had to learn how to use it over a few weeks, JB. This one appears to be more seemless.I’d definitely buy it- great for recording sudden ideas when you’re struggling with a chapter but you’re out and about.
pete moore is a used fkn truck salesman, don’t believe it ? google it.
don’t tell me birmin’ams on kick backs (click thru’s) again.
But the gentleman’s club was full of faff! I demand a recount!
Yay Catty, you’re back, and you got your pic.
um…its the american fkn version and not available from the australian ITUNES STORE FFS..SHIT SHIT SHIT
Boyz, and occasionally us girls, gotta hand it to you, that was an epic joint effort at getting from Seattle to NY the very (very) hard way.
Hey, JB, if you’re looking for the best kit for an illegal post-wave salvage mission, you should ask Pete Moore. He’s probably got an app for that.
I bet you have a US itunes account. Bloody juggerauthors.
I’m laying a bet that this thread will end up 40% on topic and 60% faff.
I’m really just commenting to increase the faff side of the balance sheet. Don’t mind me, nothing to see here.
If I download the app now, does that commit me to buying an iPhone later?
i did a seach on dragon in the app store and i couldn’t find it JB. whats the app called?
Whoa! found it JB, in the US store
But be careful boys and girls, apparently the app uploads all your contacts to their home server.
I don’t think i want to do this
mickH – what’s that you say? The iPhone people get to keep a record of the contacts you key into the phone?? Invasion of privacy , a lot? I think so.Outrageous.
It’s a matter of National Security. They need to know which call services are more bang for your buck.
Mick H yeah.
.and you need a fkn US account ITUNES piece of shit.. bloody hell. BIRMINGHAM!…ya sent us on a wild goose chase all keyed up and ready to suck down the app flat out..you WILL PAY FOR THIS..in this life or the next, I SHALL HAVE MY Vengeance
JB once again proving how much he is in Mr Jobs back pocket.
Jaysus. I don’t read this for a day and its like I’ve landed on another planet.
Why are we giving Abe money.
New mincer for the sausage factory or we’re doing repairs on the old one?
good luck, Abe, BTW, with the slice and dice man.
Beeso- your best prob right on the money. The natural state in any situation is to have about a 40-60 split in favour of faff.The human mind isn’t designed to stay “on topic” 100% of the time; (almost impossible) it’s just we tend to notice it when it’s recorded on a thread.
sorry, the first line should have read “you bet is probably right on the money”
oh, and gosh darn, I got thrown off the spam wall yesterday. Bracing.
If the topic is bottoms, I can stay on topic for an entire State of Origin match.
I’d say 60% of people can’t stay on topic. The access to your contacts is so when you write an email with the software it has a greater chance of getting it right. Spewing this isn’t an Oz app yet, looks fantastic.
I can also stay on topic for the entire packet of Tim Tams. The topic for Tim Tams is ALWAYS Jake Wall. Is there an APP for him? Or do I have to find an old lamp to rub?
Faff Alert. Sort of. As I don’t speak proper, don’t have a US iTunes account or have $10 to give to some shonky sausage maker, I suggest we could go off topic onto Dragon Age Origins. At least it is has Dragon in the name.
Stop your whinin’, the lot of yers, or I’ll show you the back o’ me ‘and.
OOOHHH JB, very Mmmm Masterful there.
the rest of them are out at some boozy lunch. Just Mayhem, JB and me working hard. Will be interesting to see when the lunch break is over and they can return to the real work of blogging.
Seeing as you’re awake, JB, can you fill up the biscuit tin next door?
Beeso- I’ve thought about it but I still wouldn’t really agree there. I mean, I’d agree that there is a way to *stay* on the topic, of course, but the internet ,by its very nature, exposes another level of pur internal voice which noone could ever get away with IRL. Its form and its function change our social behaviour.
There’s always a percentage of faff in any conversation, because in order to come up with ideas you have to free associate and to free associate you have to say a lot of other stuff first ; it’s not like you automatically go straight to the goods. Some do this aloud , others process it mentally then express the formed idea. I think there is a real dfference in how people edit themselves before they type , of course, but no difference in levels of brain faffiness. We think weird stuff all day long because of our brain chemistry.
The fact that blogs and other i’net sites get faffed on is a by-product of its form. It’s inevitable. I mean, if you went back and examined the content of the gentlemen’s talk there, while fascinating (I was really getting caught up in how you’d get to NY etc etc) , if you took it apart, it went all over the shop; sometimes people were talking directly to an idea, sometimes they were launching off on their own curve- with or w/o extra faff. I have no criticism to make either way, because it’s just human nature at play. :)
Abigail – That is some of the finest faffing i have seen in these halls. I bow down to your mastery of the faff and hope that one day, with much practise, i can faff half as good as that.