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Geotagging in Flickr

This is Flickr's new geotagging service which uses Yahoo! maps as an interface. I chose this photo from earlier this month. The map will bring up the photo if you 2x click on the pink dot.

It's simply a matter of drag and drop, but I wanted to replace this photo with another that had less sharpening, but I couldn't figure out how to do this.

I could imagine that this would be useful for those photogs visiting the city who want to get an idea of what time of day the lighting is best for some of NYC's landmarks. In my Flickr post, I mention that this was taken at 6:30 AM, and by coincidence, the satellite photo seems to have been taken at about the same time.

You also have the option of viewing just the street map or a combination of street map and satellite photo. You can do the usual right-click drag to move the map around, or if you nudge the scroll wheel of your mouse up, you can zoom in (beware of the scary groundrush effect).

Typing's is over --- if you want it

Over the weekend, I've been using my recently arrived copy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking Preferred version 9. It works very well with hardly any training. the program did run rather slowly especially when multiple windows were open or when I was dictating directly into Microsoft Word. I figured that this was due to the 512 MB of RAM on my PC. So I added another gigabyte of RAM, and it seems to run a little faster. (I'm using it to dictate this post.)

The following is an e-mail I sent to a colleague of mine:

I'm dictating this e-mail message using my new

software. Since early this morning, I've been training

it to recognize some of the medical terms that I use

when writing about type 2 diabetes. You should know

that exenatide and liraglutide are considered incretin

mimetics. The incretin enhancers include vildagliptin,

saxagliptin, and sitagliptin.

 

It is anticipated that these drugs will be preferred

over the sulfonylureas (this word I didn't have to

train, but I did need to pronounce it in a certain way

that it liked)which have been used as oral

anti-diabetic drugs.

 

I still have to train this software to understand

other pharmacology terms as "anticholinergics" (I

didn't expect it to understand that one but it did).

 

I am running at only one half gigabyte of RAM which

means that when I have a browser open, the program has

to struggle a bit. I should really upgrade to 2 GB of

RAM in order to efficiently multitask.

 

I'm impressed with its comprehension of medical terms

and I think that this software has a strong medical

orientation since it is used for dictating clinical

reports. You can buy a full-blown medical version for

close to $1000, but I think that I can get away with

just using this version, and training it as I need to.

Once I have more experience using this software, I'll

start posting my results on my blog.

As you can see, using this software makes you want to

write voluminously. That might be a good thing if

you're being paid by the word.

Besides dictating, you can navigate and give simple commands within a document such as "save" or "go to beginning."