MacDevCenter stuff

A couple items about MacDevCenter, the Mac oriented article site run by the folks at O'Reilly. If you use a Mac and haven't been there, go fix that now, I'll wait.

The first thing I noticed today (it may well have happened months ago, but I didn't catch until now) is a 'Blog this' link on all the stories. I checked on a few other properties and it's there too (not on XML.com yet though). It's such a neat little hack and oh so useful (popping up a small window with copyable HTML for cut and paste blogging). If I wind up there and it wasn't because of an aggregator link, I don't have to resort to pawing around in the page source. It's a little thing but I like it a lot and used it to grab the item below. It does have some quirks (bugs?); the link to Apple's site wasn't encoded so I had to do that manually. They'll fix it I'm sure.

Are You Talking to Me? Speech on Mac OS X by François Joseph de Kermadec -- Apple's recent announcement of Spoken Interface has moved speech recognition to the forefront. However, Mac OS X has included speech recognition and synthesis technologies for quite some time. In this article we delve into the often misunderstood world of talking to your Mac.

They're also running a survey. Go take a peek...