The built in speech recognition software that comes with Mac OS X is garbage! Ok it's not that bad, but in comparison to MacSpeech Dictate it is. The birthday script was just one of many that I've been putting together to have my computer, now called Nigel thanks to my wife, be more interactive. While this is no where near artificial intelligence, it just feels like it. MacSpeech Dictate allows you to turn off the dictation mode and only work in "command" mode. This means it won't try to type the words it hears, it will...

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Are you sick of when you are using Mail.app and your attachments sometimes showing as a file, and sometimes showing the actual file....go ahead try it we'll wait..... Here is the new solution: Apple Mail Iconizer.  With this handy little plug-in the user can control how attachments are shown when composing an email.  Of course this has no effect on the person receiving the email, but when you attach PDF's all day it really just makes things look nicer.  And isn't that what it's all...

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