by Ann Roach: Letting Technology Work for You
Gift of more time
Text to Speech
Naturalsoft - Website and download free version (Mac); If you purchase the full version you can convert it into MP3s. Free version lets you take any website and have it read the content. Called Screen Readers.
Google Translate - Translate and play it for you
Word Lens - App to translate with iPhone
Dragon Speech Recognition Software
Dictation/Speech Recognition
iPhone Apps: Dragon (transcribes), Speak it (reads)
Be aware of surrounding noise and calibration time
OneNote for Mac now exists. Great for organizing notes.
Wave is better than MP3
Names in Stone/Gateway Mapping
Cemeteries need to pay to get their information online. Only 300 cemeteries at present.
YOU can help. Go online and follow the three step process to gather info from cemeteries. Plan out what you are going to do. Go to cemeteries with your clipboard and paper. Put the information on the Internet. Use it as a Eagle Scout Project.
FamilySearch Now and in the Future
Making things available for the world. Connecting all of our knowledge together in one place = FamilySearch
The Expo Center
Oh my goodness!!! This is the best Expo Center I've been to at a Genealogy Conference. Thank you techy people for making this awesome! The Microsoft Playplace with pool tables, massages and Kinects is great. The Internet Café in the middle of the room is so nice. And the glass room for the conference bloggers is intriguing to walk past.
The poster and signs are well put together and really tie the place together. This is great!
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| Keynote Speaker from Allen County Public Library |
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| The FamilySearch Center |
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| Blogger Center (Media Center) |
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| The Media Café |
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| Old men playing chess in the Play Place |
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| Microsoft Playplace |
As part of the conference BrightSolid rented out the Clark Planetarium Thursday evening. I took my sister Erin as my date and we had a blast! They had food including nachos, Philly cheese steak sandwiches and cookies. The food was great! The movies were awesome! The prizes were awesome genealogy things and the music was spot on. It was such a fun environment. It was funny too because Erin and I stuck out like sore thumbs. We were younger than anyone there by far. We got attention from the young planetarium staff as well as the older genealogists and techy people. Super fun!
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