I think this application will be very useful and easy as it can help with various things. For example i would imagine it could help people understand other people who do not speak english as they can use the google voice to translate a word or sentence that they do not know. :)

"The transcription is the best new feature. It transcribes every voice message into text and lists them on a page where you can read them all. The Google Voice dashboard page is integrated with your other Google apps and is accessible through your Gmail account, just like your other apps. You can choose a whole range of options in your settings: You can have the voice messages forwarded to your phone in the form of an SMS, so that you have everything on your mobile phone — you can click to listen to the original message or see the message transcribed. You can choose what exact hours a particular person can reach you at, say, your home number, and what hours they’re transferred to your cell, or directed
immediately to voice mail."

Some of the disadvantages of 'Google Voice' is that it can have troubles with transcribing if the person has a strong accent or in an area with alot of noise, eg. Train station
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LED TVs are the newest technology in HDTV. LED High Definition Televisions use LED backlights replacing the standard Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps used in most LCD televisions. The display is still a conventional LCD but changing the back light.

Without this backlight the image on a LCD display would produce little or no light of its own. The LEDs are placed along the outer edge of the LCD, projecting the light inwards without adding to the width of the screen. A light source on the outer rim of the TV makes it possible to regain space normally taken up by fluorescent light rods.

This technology enables the manufacturers to build thinner TV’s which can be less than two inches thick. Another benefit of LED TVs is that they are slightly more energy efficient (or use less power) than plasmas and conventional LCD TVs. A great improvement, which will make anyone who cares for the environment happy, is that no mercury is used in their manufacture. It must be noted though, that gallium and arsenic are used in the manufacture of the LED emitters themselves.
Overall, the advantages of LEDs compared with fluorescent backlights are:

1. LED’s are small

2. They are energy efficient, produce little heat

3. LEDs can be used in groups such that if one LED burns out, the remaining LEDs will still produce light.

4. LED TVs usually produce deeper blacks and higher overall colour saturation, (since fluorescent bulbs have a smaller optical frequency output range).

5. LED TVs that use edge-lighting can be very thin. (Edge-lighting can result in a loss of screen uniformity compared to back-lighting.)

6. LED TVs may potentially also result in more environmentally friendly waste over normal LCD TVs (which contain mercury vapour in the fluorescent lamps that are used). Whilst the components of LEDs are generally more inert than fluorescent lamps, they do however still contain other toxic materials such as arsenic (Gallium Arsenide) and are not considered a much better long term solution to the problem of TV disposal.

Source: LED TV

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HARD WARES FOR GAMES

Monday, August 17, 2009

10:32 AM

-motherboard (one compatible with processor and ram)
-processor (for gaming try a AMD Phenom or Intel Quad or I7 processor for best performance) (requires heat resistant sealer)
-RAM (dd2 is ok, but now there is tri-channel ddr3 that can be used on a compatible motherboard)
-power supply & cables (about 1000 watts to support most graphic cards)
-hard drive (best to have one with lots of storage and fast transfer rates)
-video card (if there is no onboard set on motherboard or the graphics are bad; try to get a 1gb video card or more with ATI Crossfire)
-DVD, CD, or BRD burner (to play games)
-Computer Case (one that has alot of ventilation for powerful graphic cards)
-Operating System (ex: Windows Vista OS Disc)
-Liquid Cooling - allows componets to stay cooler
-Physics Accelerator - allows for smoother gaming
-Network card - motherboard may not have ethernet input; allows faster online gaming if you buy the right kind

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By Maxinne, Claudia and Jessica

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Input Processing Output

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

9:33 AM

An example of this is

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