Video: Microsoft Vista Speech Recognition Tested - Perl Scripting

So how good is the speech recognition software in the brand new Microsoft Vista anyway? Lets say for a second that you were able to successfully install MS Vista in your computer and you got it running. Now you want to test out the new features, one of them being this great speech recognition. Well, writting a simple document is just boring - so why not try to write an extremely short Perl script instead?

This Perl script would take around 20 seconds to write by typing it out.. So, seriously - It shouldn’t take more than 2, 3 or maybe even 5 minutes to write this Perl script using the Vista speech recognition, even while you are learning how to it, right?

Here is the video:

“delete if someone if someone delete the symbolism of the month of” - LOL

(Via: JWZ)

Flip4Mac WMV Universal Binary Beta for OS X

Today, a beta of the universal binary of Flip4Mac WMV was released to people who signed up for the beta test. Chances are if you are using an Intel Mac, then have been waiting for the universal binary.

The Flip4Mac WMV component is used to play Windows Media files in the Quicktime player on Mac OS X.

The beta has been publicly posted for download by a beta member.

If you are going to download the beta, be aware that since this is not a final release it might be unstable.

VIM 7 - Final Beta released.

VIM 7 is on the verge of being released, with many new features and improvements over the current 6.4 version. The last(hopefully) version of VIM 7 Beta has just been released for testing.
Here are some of the bigger improvements:

Spell checking support for about 50 languages
Intelligent completion: Omni completion
Tab pages, each containing multiple windows
Undo branches: never accidentally lose text again
Vim script supports Lists and Dictionaries (similar to Python)
Vim script profiling
Improved Unicode support
Highlighting of matching parens, cursor line and cursor column
Translated manual pages support.
Internal grep; works on all platforms, searches compressed files
Browsing of remote directories, zip and tar archives
Printing multi-byte text

You can view a more complete list at the VIM Announcement Group.