PCMag Product Survey Request from DLink

If you have a DLink product and you are happy with the job it is doing for you, our DLink Rep is requesting that you take a moment and fill out a quick survey for them. Below is the request.

I request you pass the below link along to your customers, friends and family members who own D-Link routers.
This is the 22nd annual PC Mag customer satisfaction survey and home networking routers is a category.
Please use the below link to access the survey.
http://run.equationresearch.com/start/165/87/zcpZIEalfm?m=460731
http://run.equationresearch.com/pg/74645/Z0qOck6N47kDzjDYuI9h5K7ZfovDLTjgio88Me72Glov81U3

Windows 7 Task Bar

I created a quick video showing the task bar and how it shows you what applications are open and how many instances where views are available to you to access.  In this case what I have is one Internet Explorer window in my Live writer open.  During this demonstration I will open up another tab window in Internet Explorer and you will see that the taskbar will show you a representation of both of those windows.

Worm-bearing Twitter spam on the loose - Network World

Since I have been talking so much lately about different online blogging products, Twitter of course being one of them, I thought that I should post a pointer to this article as well. As always, don’t open an email or other form of communication that contains attachments if you don’t trust or know the sender. Be very careful and you will LIVE LONG AND PROSPER!

Worm-bearing Twitter spam on the loose - Network World

Windows 7 and Speech Recognition

I thought I had a pretty decent headset and I'm using it with Windows Live Writer and it seems to work OK.  I'm using a Plantronics headset that that has a USB connection. I probably should train the windows speech recognition software several different times to make sure that it has a good sense of my voice to work with. I seem to be spending a lot of time correcting misrecognized words as I am speaking initially.  I'm wondering if there's too much hiss or if I don't have the microphone placed just exactly right.  Well, as in all projects they seem to be ongoing, and ongoing.  I was hoping that I would be able to speak at a normal speed it not have two very carefully enunciated each and every word but if I do slowed down what I am saying it has quite a bit more accuracy.  So, that is obviously the best way to work with it.  You need to speak up slow down your speech and concentrate on not slurring your words and pronouncing them clearly. As I've made some slight adjustments in the way I am speaking to the speech recognition software, the accuracy has increased considerably.  I'm having to make fewer and fewer changes and I am beginning to speed up slightly and still maintain the accuracy as long as I work on enunciating my words as clearly as I can.  So much for this test you can see the accuracy has turned up pretty well.  I still like the fact that windows still has included the speech recognition software right in the operating system so that it can be used in all windows based applications.

CASHBACK! This may be a reason to use BING…

While the general feeling about the new Microsoft Search Engine BING is mixed, most tell us that they have found it easy to use, that its results are quite good and they have no real compelling reason to use it over Google or Yahoo. Everyone likes to save money when the are shopping and here is a way to get a few dollars back from many of the stores you may be using online already. I was surprised at the number of vendors that have signed up with Bing to provide these discounts and the percentages that some of them are offering.

How to get started: Like most of Microsoft’s online applications you will need to have a Microsoft Hotmail Account and to get faster rebates you should have a PayPal account. Once you have these setup go to Bing’s Welcome to Bing cashback screen.  The left button provides you with the prompts to get a Windows Live ID and will then have you set up your new cashback account. The right button gives you your login prompt and will launch you into your account screen. Once you have an account setup you will be eligible for payments once your account has reached the minimum $5 limit to process.

Once you have finished setting up your account you are ready to take advantage of your cashback account while shopping. Just make sure you  are using the Bing search engine as your default search engine and that you use it to search for the products you want to buy. Find the best price and Bing will do the rest.