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.

Insert jocular title involving Twitter Apps here

This morning I spent the better part of an hour combing over the Twitter Apps on the Twitter Fan Wiki site. (You’ve heard of Twitter but aren’t really sure what it is? Here’s a nice introduction to Twitter by @kenleyneufeld or if you’re sick of reading, watch this video: Twitter in Plain English.) Anyways. I thought I’d share a few apps that I found particularly interesting or useful.