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Apple Issues. Keeper Password and Data Vault | Hacker Protection for iPhone, Android, iPad and computers. MacSpeech Scribe - MacSpeech Scribe transcription software. Mac Apps: Mac App Transcribes Speech to Text in a Snap. Text-to-speech technology is getting progressively better at recognizing the spoken word, and MacSpeech's latest product, Scribe, throws in transcription as well. Record your words on a portable device, including an iPhone or iPod touch, then hand the audio file over to Scribe. It'll turn it into text in less time than it took you to say it. Talking to your Mac and watching your words appear on its screen can be an empowering experience, but what about those times you're away from your "iron?

" If you have a gadget that records sound files, you can now turn those bytes into text with a new program from MacSpeech. MacSpeech Scribe The maker of the top selling speech recognition software for the Mac, MacSpeech Dictate, has introduced Scribe (US$149), which is designed to transcribe voice files recorded on an iPhone, second-generation iPod touch or digital sound recorder into text.

Like Dictate, MacSpeech claims Scribe is 99 percent accurate. Fast Recognition MP3 Crap Shoot Growth on the Horizon. By John Chandler | creativity, design & lifestyle. Ice To The Brim — The online home of Chase Reeves. 52 Tiger. How To: Watch Any Video on iPad, No Conversion Required | Gadget Lab. Thanks to its support of a single video format – MP4 – getting movies onto the iPad is, to be generous, a real pain.

You can buy movies and TV shows from iTunes, but for most of the world that’s not possible. So most of us find alternative sources, and then convert these AVI, DIVX and MKV files to MP4. This takes forever and pretty much puts your computer out of action as it gets red-hot and churns through the queue. It also lowers quality. What if there were a way to almost instantly convert these movies, without any loss in quality? It turns out there is. The software is called Avidemux 2, and it is free on OS X, BSD, Linux and Windows. AVI, DIVX and many other formats are no more than wrappers for the actual video content inside.

Confused? I click “Save” and this box pops up. But that’s not very elegant, right? iFlicks will convert video, but its main purpose is adding metadata. Worth a quick mention here is one even simpler way to play AVI files on the iPad. iFlicks [iFlicksapp]