Cool Tools: Naturally Speaking 9

Opinion
Feb 15, 20072 mins

Keith Shaw’s Cool Tools Alert

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Naturally Speaking 9

With Version 9 of Nuance’s Dragon Naturally Speaking out, Keith gives it a true test to see if speech-to-text has come out of the dark ages. Can it handle a Boston accent though?

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Fujitsu expands ultraportable notebook line

Just when I thought I was happy with my new notebook, along comes Fujitsu with another ultraportable model to make my shoulders jealous.

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SanDisk adapter helps you keep up with format changes

As memory card formats get smaller, end users might be confused about which format will fit a specific mobile device. To help end users with this confusion, SanDisk this week announced its microSD Multi SD Kit, an adapter kit that includes a microSD flash card, a miniSD adapter and a standard SD adapter. As mobile phones come with either a miniSD or microSD slot, the kit aims to end confusion for consumers over which type of card to buy, SanDisk says.

New electronic notepads from Genius

Genius announced this week its new G-Note 7100 and the MousePen 8×6, digital notepads and tablets that let users take notes during meetings or classes and transfer them to a PC.

Keith Shaw is an award-winning editor at Network World. In addition to creating the Cool Tools universe of columns, blogs and videocasts, he also edits the weekly DEMOletter newsletter http://www.demo.com/demoletter and is the senior editor of product testing at Network World http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/. You can reach Keith at mailto:kshaw@nww.com