Olympus DS-7000 IS THE BEST RECORDER FOR DRAGON NATURALLY SPEAKING 11.5

Found a great article yesterday talking about the benefits of the Olympus DS-7000 recorder with regard to speech recognition. The DS-1 algorithms sound incredible.

Check it out at KnowBrainer

I’ll post the article when back at my CPU
Jimmy

The Million Dollar Journey Continued, 2012

My goal of reaching 1 Million Dollars through investing is still in progress.  As I look back on this milestone, progress has been made albeit slow.  The time for action starts now.  I have begun to become very interested in graphite & its potential application into flexible screens for electronics.  More to be posted/edited here later.

-Jimmy

Dictating the Microsoft speech recognition tools

So today I find myself dictating into this particular blog using the Microsoft speech recognition tools.  Unfortunately, my dragon naturally speaking software program is not responding.  The hardware profile I think for the computer upstairs has become too old.  As a result, I believe the spontaneous disruption in service of the software is probably due to a software conflict.  Interestingly enough, the Microsoft program seems to be working very well!  As a result, I make it a benefit of the 80/20 rule as a result.

 

I have found a wonderful web site called knowbrainer.com.  The particular forms and his website are wonderful.  In addition, I have found many useful leads as well as products that are for sale.  Check it out by clicking on the link in the last series of verbiage.

 

Have a great day and thank you for reading this blog entry,

Jimmy

Dragon Naturally Speaing & Voice Recorders

I was quite pleased a few weeks back to run across a new application for the iPhone.  It was a dragon recorder application.   Naturally, I was excited as I love Dragon Naturally Speaking (currently using version 10).  However, I found the basic features helpful but not as useful as the Andrea Voice Recorder application or my Sony ICD-MX20.

Let me know if you’re interested & I’ll post a comparison between the three,

Jimmy

p90x Week #2

Starting the second week of P90x & I broke a band mid workout doing the lawnmower exercise.  The experience was exhilarating as well as confusing until the situation became clear.  I will probably purchase the stock set of bands from the BeachBody.com website & finally put my $20 coupon to work.

From a results standpoint, the energy level is up & the workouts fell great!  Looking forward to week #2.  Interesting enough, my mental clarity as well as general energy level has picked up.  Shortly, this will allow me to begin focusing on investing.  I am excited for this opportunity as nothing feels better than making money without have to exchange exact time for it.

Creating A Map of Links

Testing out a new feature that will aggregate all of the website links into a mind map.  Through the process of mindmapping, I intent to make the content much more visual & useful.

Check out the link & let me know what you think:

http://streetrhetoric.com/index.php/link-map

Naturally, I’m excited!!!

P90x, Done with the first week !!!

Burning a little bit of the midnight oil tonight writing an article to celebrate finishing the 1st week of P90x !!!

The system has been sitting on my shelf since August of 2009 and for numerous reasons I wasn’t able to get in the groove of committing to this regimen.  Boy oh boy am I glad this changed.  After the first series of workouts, I am sore and feel awesome.  It’s scary to imagine that almost 10 years has flow by since I’ve stuck to a serious workout program. Beachbody’s saying of decide, commit & succeed really holds true.  I’m looking forward to my day of X-Stretch tomorrow & bringing it during next weeks series of workouts.  To date, my favorite workout is Yoga X, awesome, challenging & exhilarating.

On a related note, The documentary Forks Over Knives is work the 1 hr & 36 minutes to watch.  The movie is factually based & sends a intelligent message about curious observations about the affects of dietary choices.  Check it out.

Enjoy,

Jimmy

Mobile Apps iPhones Coolness

Last week,

I started using the Dragon dictation app from Nuance. The application is incredible and the best part of it is that I have now connected the technology into the WordPress application. Both applications are now working off an iPhone. The combination of the two makes this exceptionally easy to complete simple dictation into the blog, very cool!

The Nuance straddle

After reading a short article about the company Nuance Communications, I decided to sell a straddle against the particular position on May 11, 2011. I sold a straddle on the position at approximately $21 for the may call and put. The profit on the position was $95. I purchased the stock at $21.65 a share. As the end of the month rolled around, the options ended up potentially expiring except for the fact that on the Friday of expiration, my option was assigned on the covered call against my shares at which I sold my Nuance Communications position at $21 a share. By the time commissions were taken out (five dollars for the initial stock, $5.90 for the initial straddle position and $15 for the assignment on the covered call position) I was able to net an increase of $4.04. While not seemingly significant, they gave him position was a huge milestone for me in the fact that I was able to make a profit on a position in such a short period of time. In fact, I would like to try and repeat this endeavor again and will see how to proceed forward as it does not appear to be too difficult to implement this trade. All in all, always nice to make a small profit.

In the future, I am going to begin towing around with using a mind mapping software called free mind. The point of this particular endeavor will be to determine if I can visually represent the information and make it more complete. Either way it will be a fun experiment.

Happy endeavors on your training!

The verbiage above was dictated using Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10.1 professional

Awesome Customer Service from Frontier FIOS

My internet connection has been slow for the last several days & thought the push of a Wi-Fi security button was the result.  Turn out, the Frontier FIOS box needed to be reset.  I called customer service & had a fantastic experience!  I whole heartily recommend & was very pleased with the outcome.