Category Archives: Silly

Google Voicemail Transcription

July 27, 2010 --- Miles V.

For some time, Ctrl-Shift has been using Google Voice to route calls for a single business number to multiple mobile phones. This has the advantage of allowing technicians to answer the business phone wherever they happen to be and has worked pretty well for us. Google Voice isn’t perfect though, particularly in the handling of voice mail. Part of Google’s voicemail service is to transcribe the content of each message. Their system attempts to decipher … Read more →

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ComboFix: savior, comerade, friend.

July 14, 2010 --- Miles V.

ComboFix is a well-publicized anti-Malware tool, renowned for its ability to extract some of the nastier infections in situations where resident anti-virus software has been rendered inoperative.  It is continually updated to combat current viruses, trojans, worms, and rootkits with surprising effectiveness for an entirely non-commercial product. ComboFix is free to download at MajorGeeks and BleepingComputer, and many other places.  Be warned: it is a powerful tool, it comes with no guarantee of your safety, … Read more →

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