Aug 05

How to buy Macspeech Dictate in Australia

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With Dragon NaturallySpeaking, the only option was to purchase it in Australia because there was a special Australian edition which was made using the Australian accent.

With Macspeech Dictate however, the US version comes with Australian accent,  so you can buy the normal version of MacSpeech Dictate from the US for about $200 ($100 less than Australia) and it will still work here.

It comes with USA, UK and Australian versions built-in.

You can read my full review here.

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Apr 25

How to read a docx file in Word 2004

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If you keep getting sent .docx files and can’t open them in Word 2004, Microsoft have a free converter available here:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6B9238E1-CF69-48C4-BF2D-C4A8ACEEE520&displaylang=en

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Apr 18

How to integrate things and ical and mail

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1. To integrate things and ical, look here. This will put all your things next and today items into ical.

2. To integrate mail with things, use this script. Place it in your mail scripts folder (User/Library/Scripts/Applications/Mail), or put it anywhere and use the free beta version of Mail Act on from here or you can download the latest full verion from here). It will take the current email and turn it into a things todo without you even leaving mail.

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Apr 07

How to get your iphone working on the Telstra 3G network

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I’ve had a few goes at getting a browsing pack for a Telstra pre-paid iphone, it took a while for Telstra to work out how to get it going, here’s how to do it. Continue reading »

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Mar 31

How to get cheap software – limited time

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MacHeist every year or so do a collection of software as a bundle, this year it’s a beauty. Check it out at macheist.com

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Mar 16

ical, google cal, iphone, what a mess…

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Well as great as the iphone is, the software is laggign a fair way behind and calendar syncign is one example.

After many hours, here’s a solution I found to sync multiple calendars across different computers, with anyone being able to edit the calendars, and see them on your iphone as well.

1. SET UP A MASTER CALENDAR Your master calendar needs to be in google (not on your mac). So create a google calendar here. Because I wanted to share it among my colleagues and have them edit it, I created a special goggle account just for this calendar. After you create the calendar you can export your existing  events from your mac as an ics file  and import them into google calendar.

2. SYNC IT TO ICAL Download a little google application called ‘Calaboration’ from here which will add your google calendar to ical. You will need to enter your google id and password. You will need to run Calaboration on any mac you want to access the google calendar on.

3. SYNC IT TO IPHONE Your iphone can sync to google calendar via the ClaDAV option on the iphone. Google is basically being an exchange server that your phone syncs to. The instructions are here.

I have a newer post about this here.

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Mar 16

Typinator is free

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For a short time typinator is free. It’s one of many macro apps that allow you to have prefigured phrases that are automatically typed. You can get it from here.

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Nov 18

How to dictate to your Macintosh with good accuracy

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I have  previously reviewed MacSpeech Dictate but here are some tips on how to use it well. Continue reading »

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