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We’ve seen all kinds of devices to Tweet when bread is baked, Tweet when a baby kicks and the rest, but this one beats them all: a best man claims to have rigged a newlywed couple’s bed such that it Tweets when they have sex, including commentary on said interaction. The account, @newlywedsontjob , carries the description: “V proud to have been best man for my best mate. He made me SWEAR no pranks before wedding. They’re back from honeymoon soon, which is AFTER the wedding, right?” Choice Tweets include: “They’re on the job! #2 – Action commenced at 15.50GMT. Weight: 151KG…

Topics: Analysis / Opinion , Odds and ends , iPhone , App Review Put this into the ‘I didn’t think they could ever get this to work on an iPhone’ category. I’m talking about Dragon Dictation [ iTunes link ] from Nuance , the developers of the very popular Dragon Naturally Speaking for the PC. Nuance also provides the speech recognition engine for MacSpeech Dictate on the Mac platform. To dictate on the iPhone you just launch the app, press the record button, and start talking. Your dictation can be a brief sentence, or a much longer treatise. Once the text has been created from your speech, it’s possible to email it, send it…

Can you even imagine what it must have been like to be an early explorer? Like, you leave Spain or Portugal on some rickety boat, and arrive in the New World. Cool and all, but, outside of shooting everything in sight, how do you communicate with anybody? What, do you point to the sun and say “sol,” and expect the other guy to repeat “sol”? That can’t be an efficient way to learn a language, especially when it’s, you know, a very real clash of cultures. If only they had (drum roll, please) something like Jibbigo Speech Translator English Spanish , which automatically translates …

Topics: Software , Software Update MacSpeech Dictate has now been upgraded to version 1.5, giving the application more accuracy and a new vocabulary editor. The update also includes a new English profile option, allowing you to indicate if your speech has North American, Southern North American, or a Latino North American accent. The software also includes the addition of the top 100 websites to the “Jump to” command option. This is the first update of MacSpeech Dictate since last February . As I did in my last post on this software, I dictated this article completely by voice. It appears that the software is more accurate in recognizing my speech. Although I upgraded from an earlier version, the software did require…

Four months of discovery and hearsay later, the Android build that we’ve all been waiting for is nigh. Run inside, everyone - run inside and charge your G1s, for Cupcake (Firmware v1.5) is nearly upon us. (Actually, it’s still a few weeks away. But you should charge your G1 anyway, seeing as it’s a G1 and the day is halfway over, so the battery’s probably almost dead.) The Android Developers Blog announced today the availability of an “early look” Android 1.5 SDK. This release seems like a mostly complete version of the final release, though Google warns that some of the APIs are bound to change. Beyond the features that v1.5 brings to the end user …