Monthly Archives: January 2007

Vista Voice Recognition

Posted on January 30, 2007 by Andy Rush

In honor of Microsoft Windows Vista being released today (and all the hype that goes along with it), I wanted to show everyone a feature that really works spectacularly well – the voice recognition system. I don’t see many places … Continue reading →

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WordTube? Whoa!!!

Posted on January 29, 2007 by Andy Rush

[MYPLAYLIST=0] OK. So Jim Scooped me again . . . but Word Tube has some exciting potential. I re-purposed the famous reaction shot. WordTube Info here.

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Instant Netflix

Posted on January 16, 2007 by Andy Rush

I’ll reserve judgment until I actually experience it, but this announcement by Netflix has me pretty excited. It basically allows you to download stream a movie “instantly” from the Netflix website, and watch it on your computer. In my case … Continue reading →

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Winds of Change Part II

Posted on January 7, 2007 by Andy Rush

So it turns out that Demetri Martin, who I know from The Daily Show and who appeared in Microsoft’s Soapbox video sharing site, is doing a whole series of videos for Microsoft called Clearification. You can tell after a few … Continue reading →

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Winds of Change

Posted on January 7, 2007 by Andy Rush

Kodak – “They’re going to turn the schmaltz back up to 11″ How’s that for a tag line. This is one of those internal company videos that got released to the public, ala the “Microsoft Designs the iPod Package” and … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year!

Posted on January 1, 2007 by Andy Rush

Happy 2007! To celebrate, I did an HD screen grab of the Tournament of Roses Parade on the Discovery HD channel. Live HD parade coverage on the Pioneer PDP5070HD Plasma, and what is my son doing? Playing video games. Well, … Continue reading →

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