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• Delphi's NAV300 gets spec'd, priced

  Published: July 30, 2007, 4:01 pm

  Tags: Delphi, Nav, Nav300, Navi, Navigation, Navteq, Text To Speech, Tts

  Furthermore, it'll boast text-to-speech capabilities, speed limit warning software, integrated Bluetooth for handsfree calling, and optional traffic information via the RDS-TMC technology. Best of all, those interested can get their orders in right now, and while the NAV300 will run you $399.99 by itself, you can opt for "lifetime traffic

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• Wired Hospitals and Sick Rooms

  Published: July 18, 2007, 3:07 pm

  Tags: Assistive Technology, Assistivetechnology, Jaw Bra, Jawbra, Social Networking, Socialnetworking, Text To Voice, Texttovoice

  They hooked her up with some text to voice software. After all, she can type like the dickens... almost as fast as she can talk. This will come in handy. She can answer the phone now, too, which is a help, even if it's just to say:"I'm sorry. I can't help. Whom may I say is calling?" or"Sure. I will buzz you in."Last I heard they were Googling

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• Search Wikipedia and RSS News Feeds via SMS

  Published: August 2, 2007, 3:44 pm

  Tags: Handy Resources, Journalism, Mobile, Rss, Search, Wikis, Lifehacks, Sms, Text Messaging, Wikipedia

  a way to query Wikipedia via text messages using their Text2WAP technology. All you need to do is send a text message to the number 23907 with the word ABOUT followed by your search topic - e.g. ABOUT WIKIPEDIA. You will then get a link back to a special mobile-friendly version of the Wikipeida entry. In addition, the company has a news search

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• TaskPaper: Simple, text-based task management

  Published: August 3, 2007, 12:48 pm

  Tags: Apple Macs Os X, Getting Things Done, Productivity, Action Based, Gina Trapani, Hog Bay Software, Jesse Grosjean, Text

  with. You can also assign contexts (such as “home”, “office”, or “car”) to your tasks so that you can later generate lists of all tasks assigned to a specific context. As Gina Trapani has shown, there’s clearly a place out there for a smart, text-y task app. What a lot of folks need is not the

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• Featured Windows Download: Log your workday from the system tray with Life Logger

  Published: August 3, 2007, 4:00 pm

  Tags: Capture Tools, Featured Windows Download, Plain Text, Time Management, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows Xp

  most recent activities and a text box where you can add new entries. Life Logger is a stand-alone executable and writes your entries to a text file (namd Log.txt) in the directory holding the program. While not overly customizable or complex, Life Logger is a handy way of logging your day. The only drawback I see at this point is there are no

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• How To: Track your weight with SMS and Google Calendar

  Published: August 3, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Google Calendar, Google Sms, How To, Sms, Text Messaging, Weight Loss

  Create some quick text in your cellphone "Today my weight is " 2. Create a contact for Gcal in your phone 48368 [instructions here] 3. Weigh yourself 4. Send a text message to Gcal at 48368 with your weight 5. It shows up in calendar 6. You can also search for "weight" and get a nice listing of your weight If you'd rather not incur a

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• Search Wikipedia and RSS News Feeds via SMS

  Published: August 2, 2007, 3:44 pm

  Tags: Handy Resources, Journalism, Mobile, Rss, Search, Wikis, Lifehacks, Sms, Text Messaging, Wikipedia

  a way to query Wikipedia via text messages using their Text2WAP technology. All you need to do is send a text message to the number 23907 with the word ABOUT followed by your search topic - e.g. ABOUT WIKIPEDIA. You will then get a link back to a special mobile-friendly version of the Wikipeida entry. In addition, the company has a news search

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• Garmin intros Nuvi 260 with text-to-speech

  Published: August 6, 2007, 11:52 am

  Tags: Garmin, Gps, Nuvi, Nuvi 260, Nuvi260, Text To Speech

  first of the series to boast text-to-speech capabilities. That notable feature will let you keep your eyes on the road while the device calls out street names and directions. Otherwise, the device appears to be pretty much identical to others in the series, boasting a 3.5-inch touchscreen, pre-loaded maps of the United States, Canada, and Puerto

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• Text-to-Speech: Garmin Nuvi 260 Brings Crazy Talkin' to 'Budget' GPS

  Published: August 6, 2007, 12:20 pm

  Tags: Garmin, Garmin Nuvi 260, Nuvi 260, Text To Speech

  Garmin's sometimes-comical text-to-speech capabilities. We like to make fun of our Garmin text-to-speech talker; for example, when it comes up to Forest Drive, it calls it Fo. Rest. Drive. Hahaha. Anyway, text-to-speech is how Garmin differentiates its "premium" GPS systems with all those other "budget" units it sells in the Nuvi 200 series.

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• How To: Convert text to spoken audio

  Published: August 6, 2007, 5:00 pm

  Tags: Conversion, Digital Audio, How To, Speaking, Text To Speech

  instructions for converting text to speech for both Mac and Windows users. On the Mac, the process involves setting up a simple Automator workflow; on Windows, the post suggests a shareware program called TextAloud2. The Automator solution is workable, but nobody likes shareware if they can help it, so for a free Windows alternative, you have a

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• Speed Read Feed for August 7, 2007

  Published: August 7, 2007, 1:32 am

  Tags: Speed Read Feed, Barack Obama, Bumpshack, Foot Mouth Disease, Georgia, Grocery Store, Hello Kitty, Hillary Clinton, Hiv, Mcdonalds, Russian, Speed Read Feed, Text Messaging, Thai

  90% of Americans want text messaging banned while driving- Peninsula Vaccines ordered for foot-and-mouth disease- Financial Times Food in McDonald’s wrapper tastes

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• Ashen Empires - Color Text Tutorial

  Published: July 14, 2007, 1:55 am

  Tags: Video, Color Text, Tutorial, Ashen Empires, Game

  back into the value for the text.10.) So now finally go back into the game and press the function key(F1-F12) you assigned the color text to and the text should now be a blue text in chat.11.) If it didn't work then might need to re-log and start the process over or take a look at the video.or DL the SWF here:

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• It has a name, part II: "smexting"

  Published: August 10, 2007, 3:28 pm

  Tags: Cellphone, Cigarette, Messaging, Phone, Smexting, Smoke, Smoking, Sms, Text, Texting

  of the ban are turning to texting to give their fidgety, nerve-wracked fingers something to do and to seek support from friends. The behavior, which arguably didn't need a name, is being called "smexting." Looks like the money saved on cancer sticks is going straight to the carriers -- but hey, at least it's a little safer (or not).[Via

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• Text Message Ban Totally Officially Official. Almost

  Published: August 11, 2007, 4:40 am

  Tags: Text Messaging, Textmessaging

  the NCAA's wholesale text messaging ban and file an appeal to the NCAA; the NCAA said "no dice" yesterday: The association's Division I board of directors on Thursday essentially rejected a call by nearly three dozen schools to rescind or alter the restrictions it approved in April. They took effect Aug. 1, limiting electronically

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• Maxian looks to educate with dictionary-equipped E900DIC PMP

  Published: August 15, 2007, 6:32 am

  Tags: Davinci, Dictionary, E Dictionary, E900dic, Edictionary, Educational, H 264, Korea, Maxian, Media Player, Mediaplayer, Pmp, Saydic, South Korea, Southkorea, Text To Speech, Tts

  dictionary that even touts text-to-speech capabilities. Details regarding the actual formats that this thing supports are scant, but we do know it features a DaVinci chipset and plays nice with H.264. Unspririnsgly, this one looks to be a Korean exclusive, but those parked near Seoul can reportedly snag one for between 400,000 ($430) to

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