Microsoft Recite Technology ....record your memories!

Microsoft Recite Technology Preview makes a busy mobile lifestyle easier by providing an easy method for remembering, searching, and retrieving mental notes and reminders from their Windows Mobile® device using the sound of their voice. Without navigating menus or tapping out text just speak your mental note to store it. Later, when you need the information just search and retrieve the remembrance using your voice.

How Does It Work?

Microsoft Recite’s voice search makes it easy to retrieve your stored thoughts and notes by using voice pattern matching. It analyzes the patterns in your speech and finds matches between two recordings -- the notes you stored on your phone, and the search you do using your voice. With Recite you can store thousands of spoken notes, and then later retrieve the notes you want based on a match with your search term(s). This is different from speech recognition, which has to accurately convert spoken words to application-readable input.

Press “Remember” to record a thought.

Press “Search” to retrieve your thoughts. It’s that simple!

 

 Really excited? See this cool video:

<br/><a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=1cf330f0-7863-401a-ba91-c3013ed1e03c" target="_new" title="Microsoft Recite">Video: Microsoft Recite</a>

Source :Microsoft Recite

Online Image to Text converter

OCR Terminal is an free online Optical Character Recognition service that allows you to convert scanned images and pdf's into editable and text searchable documents. It accurately preserves formatting and layout of documents.

PDF to Word Conversion Convert pdf files into editable Microsoft Word documents without installing any software. OCR Terminal allows you to easily upload .pdf files, convert them to .doc files and download them without need for any lengthy software installation, and does it all for free.

Image to Text ( jpeg to word) Convert scanned images in a number of formats to editable text format. OCR Terminal supports multi-page TIFF, JPEG, GIF, BMP formats. The formatting of all text in the images is accurately preserved and download is available in .doc, .txt, .rtf, .xml formats.

 Source: OCR Terminal

Make collages is never this easier!

Shape Collage is a new software for making impressive and stunning collages.

This software was developed by Vincent Chung,a former employee of Microsoft Research and Google.

Take a look at the collages created by Shape Collage.

The most interseting feature is that it is absolutely free and light-weight(about 300 KB).

It is availble for all the Major Operating Systems like Linux,Mac and Windows Vista.

Image Source: Vincent Cheung

Bespin...Web Based Editor

Bespin is a Mozilla Labs experiment that proposes an open, extensible web-based framework for code editing that aims to increase developer productivity, enable compelling user experiences, and promote the use of open standards.Bespin is a web-based text editor running in a cloud. 

The source code for Bespin is now available online and can be downloaded from the Mozilla Labs website.

Source: Mozilla Labs

Take a Digital tour to Sri Aandal Temple!

 The India Digital Heritage Project is a huge undertaking by Microsoft Research India that tries to "collect, store, and share data on architectural sites and stimulate research in visualization, computer vision, graphics and related fields."  MSR India's role is to provide technologies such as Photosynth and HD View (beta) to help showcase various Indian heritage sites in both 2D and 3D.

This video explores the glory of Sri Aandal Temple,Srivilliputhur through a mind-blowing digital tour via Photosynth.Users can take look at the intricate carvings of the Gopuram through HD View.They can have a 3D look of the Prakarams of Sri Aandal Temple at Srivilliputhur.

Really excited? Watch this video now: 

 <a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-US&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:3bd42ab0-8cf3-4c1a-9526-76dae0e20882&showPlaylist=true&from=shared" target="_new" title="India Digital Heritage Project: Sri Andal Temple">Video: India Digital Heritage Project: Sri Andal Temple</a>

Souce: Microsoft Research India

Track Electricity Bills with Google!

          Google Powermeter is a new project from Google targeted directly towards Consumers.The main use of Google Powermeter is to track your Electricity Bills in real time.Using Google Powermeter one can easily monitor day-to-day power usage and can mange and conserve power in a more efficient manner.

What Google is Doing?

Google PowerMeter, now in prototype, will receive information from utility smart meters and energy management devices and provide anyone who signs up access to her home electricity consumption right on her iGoogle homepage.

	Analyze: Get better information about how you use energy and what you can do to be more efficient.
	Save: Reduce your energy bills and carbon footprint by making smart decisions about your energy use.
	Share: Strike up a little friendly competition to see how your energy consumption compares to your friends and neighbors.

Source :Google

Block ads in an easier way

Do you get irritated of the text advertisements which appear in most of the websites?

Are you searching for a solution to get rid of these annoying advertisements?

Then here is the solution.

Add-Art is a plugin for Firefox 3.0 which simply replaces annoying ads with beautiful pictures.See the plugin in action.

 

So,say goodbye to advertisements by installing Add-Art plugin.

Image Source: Add-Art

Online Operating System...simply superb!

Have you ever wondered about an Operating System Online????.Yes,it's possible to have an operating system running remotely on a server.All of us are aware of the online word processing services like Google Spreadsheets,Zoho Creator,Live Documents etc.These products usually runs"as a service" in a remote server,which can be used by a client.

An Online Operating System too can be considered "as a service" provided by a remote server.

Here,I am going to share my views about Glide,an online operating system.

Just because it is online,don't undersestimate the operating system.It has a loot of cool features that most of our Operating Systems like Windows XP,Ubuntu etc, has.

FEATURES OF GLIDE:

Glide has the following features that can compete with a real time operating system.

• Watch HD movies
• Edit your Photographs
• Manage and organize your events
• 3D Navigation
• Email etc.

Have a look at the Glide desktop screen.

Now lets quickly run through some great features of Glide Operating System.

2.A view of GlideHD page where you can organize your personal photos,music,documents,read RSS feeds etc.

 

3.A view of Glide's portal,where you can watch all your favourite programs and news channels.

 

4.Stunning 3d navigation of your windows.

 

Hope you had a glimpse of Glide Operating System.Now it's your turn to experience the power an great features of Glide OS.

Source: Glide.

Let me Google that for U

      Let me Google that for You gives a new dimension for the google search.
It actually provides a replay of the search query you typed in Google.


It's time to get excited.Visit Let me Google that for You 

Source: Let me Google that for You

Zemanta..get rich emails and Blogging experience!

      Zemanta gives you rich experience in emailing and blogging like never before.Zemanta plugin is available for Firefox and Internet Explorer.One can install the plugin and starat posting rich emails and blog posts.

STEPS:

1. Install the Zemanata plugin for Firefox /Internet Explorer
2. Now you can automatically see the Zemanata plugin in your Blogger Dasboard.

 

      3.Now drag and drop pictures/news from Zemanat plugin

 

NOTE: This plugin can also be used to send rich emails.

Check out this video:

Source : Zemanta

The Tale of Smarter Planet..IBM's Dream

This video elaborates about IBM's visionary to solve the world crisis through a technology.What a great effort?



Source: IBM Research

Add HTML signature to GMail...easy hack!

I have been Googling for a long time,on how to add a custom HTML signature to my GMail(like the one in Yahoo mail).But I hardly found any useful hack.

Here is really a simple hack,which I want to share with everyone.This method however works only with Firefox.

STEPS:

1.Download the Firefox extension: Blank Canvas.

2.Install the plugin.


3.Now if you sign in to your GMail,you can automatically see a signature drop down menu.(Works only in Firefox!)

4.Click on Create signature tab and type your custom HTML code.

5.This is what,I did it!


6.Finally,one can see the signature added automatically to your email signature.You can even customize your signature according to your friends,business etc.

Hope this helps useful and now you can go and add your custom email signature.

Try this simple hack!