Google Voice transcriptions: butcherer of voicemail

If I had to guess, I’d say the voicemail transcriptions has about a 50% accuracy rate. But out of 12 voicemails from a colleague of mine, voicemail transcriptions has never got his name right. Never. Not even once.

Vast color shifts across multiple applications

Today I uploaded an image to the web to show a colleague. When I previewed the photo online I was shocked by the huge shift in color. The entire image was over saturated and had a green tint to it.

Luis von Ahn is my new hero

Luis von Ahn is an assistant computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Together with a team from Carnegie Mellon University, Luis is largely responsible for CAPTCHA1 programs as we know them today.

This week’s design blog favorites

Typography Keyboard Layout: Download Now! Smashing Editorial, Smashing Magazine | April 2, 2009 The main idea was to provide the web design community with a handy tool that would let designers enter characters that are usually unavailable on a keyboard easier and quicker. If you already tried to enter such words like naïve or résumé [...]

Twitter speaks volumes

Now more than ever, be careful what you say. As reported by TechCrunch, Twitter recently updated it’s profile title tags to play nice with Google.