Instant Messaging app from Guardian Project - better Messaging Security. (more)

Secure Instant Messaging (Messaging Security) from Guardian Project (more)

Amazon virtual Hosted Server service: "Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud" (more)

These women want to text you positive affirmations all day (more)

Product Review on Eating opportunity (more)

Don Norman's old essay "Design as Communication" has a section called "Communication and Context: Design as Story Telling". If the designer explains the reasoning behind the model, the user will find the task of uncovering the conceptual model much easier. In other words, what we need to provide to people is reasons, not just methods... A model is a story that puts the operation of the system into context: it weaves together all of the essential components, providing a framework, a context, and reasons for understanding. Without this story, without this conceptualization, the operation of something becomes a set of memorized actions, but without reason or purpose except "this is how it is done."

Taylor Pearson: The Only 3 Ways to be More Productive (more)

Jon Udell on Framing hackable Multimedia as a Transparent Society tool. Customer Service calls are a variant of this scenario. How many times have you heard this? "Your call may be recorded in order to assure quality customer service." Lately I'm starting to repeat the line back to them and then start recording (Audio) on my end too. If you can pinpoint what an agent said on a previous call, you can alter the balance of power. Now you really need that Voice Recognition software to make a Transcript so your local Search Engine can find it...

concept from Educational Technology - instructional chunk re-usable across pedagogical Context-s (more)

the translation of spoken words into text. It is also known as "automatic speech recognition", "ASR", "computer speech recognition", "speech to text", or just "STT". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition (more)

Google-made HUD (more)

cf Voice Recognition

the part of the phone (not just Cell Phone) that provides the physical sound (Audio) interface (more)

Judicial Watch is an American conservative educational foundation, which, according to its website, "advocates high standards of ethics and morality in our nation’s public life and seeks to ensure that political and judicial officials do not abuse the powers entrusted to them by the American people." Judicial Watch states that its mission is to use the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and other tools to investigate misconduct by government officials and litigation to hold to account politicians and public officials who engage in corrupt activities... The organization received considerable financial support from prominent Bill Clinton critics, including $7.74 million from conservative billionaire RichardMellonScaife... in July 2003 Judicial Watch joined the environmental organization Sierra Club in suing the George W. Bush administration for access to minutes of Vice President Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force... Judicial Watch was involved in a similar legal dispute with Vice President Dick Cheney in 2002 when the group filed a shareholder lawsuit against Halliburton... Since the beginning of the Barack Obama administration, Judicial Watch has filed over 900 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests and over 90 lawsuits, including a successful fight over the Obama White House visitor logs and ongoing legal battles over the Fast and Furious scandal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_Watch

M-x dissociated-trump (more)

Derek Thompson: Elite American Men Are Obsessed With Work. Women earn a fraction of men’s average hourly wages in the United States, somewhere between 79 percent and 92 percent, depending on how one adjusts the data. (more)

page was renamed from Bicycle Repair Man (more)

Bicycle Repair Man is a refactoring browser for Python.

Apple Computer announced mid-2014 that it would be dropping IPhoto (and Aperture), replacing them with Photos. (more)

The Wife wants some clarity around IPhone/IPhoto/Photos/ICloud Data Synch-and-Delete Handling. (Which will change within a month when she wants to get back to 2016-01-23-MigrateFromIphotoToPhotos.) (more)