In today’s world of HMOs and other inconvenient healthcare options, many of us wonder what happened to the days where a doctor was truly “your” doctor and our healthcare needs were adequately met. Below are ten of examples of how technology is changing the health industry and winning back the trust of the public.
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There is supposed to be a new update available for MindManager Pro 7. The update number is 7.1.388.
I would love to tell you about it, however, when I click the update button, I get the message that I have latest update which was 7.0.429.
So somewhere along the way there are some cobwebs somewhere, either on my machine or in MMPro7 or on the Mindjet site.
The MindManager groups at Yahoo lists a manual download link location at
MindManager Manual Download Link
Note, make sure you write down your license number before you run it and also if you have a number of customizations, I highly advise you sign up for the Yahoo MindManager group and check out some of the tips and tricks recommended there.
Well, that’s all I know about that. I’m off for the holidays in another 24 hours. Going to drive a lot, visit St Louis and Peoria, then Atlanta and back to North Carolina. Visiting with Family, getting the kids outside in the snow, playing a little pool with my brother (he just installed some fancy pool table lights ) and hopefully get some relaxation in before 2008 kicks off with a busy bang.
If I get a little spare time, I’m hoping to reorganize my collection of mindmaps. I’m hoping to organize them better for access to the information, but I’m also hoping to extrapolate out templates from some of these maps for future mindmap template sharing. Plus, I’m hoping to cleanse some of the maps, so that I can share the actual information while protecting the innocent. 
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A few months back I upgraded my phone from a treo 600 to a treo 700p. The Treo 700P came with a voice recorder. On my Treo 600 I had Mvoice which I paid about $20 for a year or two ago so that I could record conversations for the IRS.
Later I used it to transcribe my own recordings to text utilizing dragon naturally speaking, which is a much safer endeavor than working as a whistle blower for the feds against the chinese mafia.
Tonight, I found a converter when I found a blog that provided a great description of how to use it.
The software is a converter from Qualcomm.
Their download page.
The thing about this program is that you have to drag the QCP file and drop it on top of the .exe file that Qualcomm provides.
You can not just double click on the Qualcomm program and run it.
So I did all this, even filmed a quick video of it and loaded it up to revver to show everyone the result.
Once I got the upload processing, I then cranked up Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 to convert the wav into text.
Alas, I ran into a new barrier. The resulting wav file created by the Qualcomm program is recorded at the wrong bit rate!
Doh!
So I’m half stymied now. I’m going to try and see if there is a way to change the bit rate without damaging the file next. I have a couple ideas on how to do that:
We shall see . . . .
OK, its now about 30 minutes later and I may have made some more progress.
I opened up sound recorder (comes with Windows) Go to start, accessories, entertainment, sound recorder.
I then opened up my original file. While open, I clicked on file and chose properties and then walked through the convert now functionality.
I clicked the convert now button and came up with the options to pick a new format.
Since I was going trial by error, I chose the save as button first and typed in the phrase new-version. In retrospect, I think I just established a new optional default format, but this step is probably not necessary.
Next, I chose the actual new sampling rate (I think sampling rate is the correct terminology here.)
I then hit OK a couple times until I was looking at the main sound recorder screen again. Then I chose file, Save As, and changed the file name to something new and save the new file next to the old one in my file folder.
So in theory, I should now have a file recorded at the 16 bit mono rate, which is required for the conversion in Dragon Naturally Speaking. So I’m going to pause writing again, to see if it will convert!
No Luck again!
So I tried Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 again using the transcription tool and it once again gave me the same pop up window. So it must not be the 16 bit wav recording format, but instead it must be an invalid sampling rate and I have no clue how to fix that.
Finally, Success!
OK, so maybe I’m stubborn, or originally I was obtuse, but I finally figured out how to make this work!
This time I went back into Sound Recorder one more time, went back to properties just like above.
This time I flipped through the available formats in the drop down selection and chose the Mpeg3 format and scrolled almost to the bottom of the list until I could find a format that had 16 bit mono.
I picked that, hit OK a couple times until I was back to the original screen again and then I selected file save as, changed the name yet again. Ran it through Dragon Naturally Speaking 9 transcription tools (menu, Sound, transcription) pick your file and hit transcribe button.
And it converted!
Here’s a copy of the text
Is used twice in a program comes preinstalled on my Verizon wireless Treo is 780. Has to use a program called him a voice in later years the way files and generates to create notes which I can transcribe through Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9. In this test is going to exported file via e-mail to my home e-mail account where I will retreat, and then I will attempt to run through Dragon NaturallySpeaking to determine if it can transcribe his message. In the past I always took the key card on my phone after recording voice not there and inserted it into my computer.
This time I’m going to wirelessly send the file to my e-mail hoping to save myself some time and effort. The open question I have is how will this particular voice recording service will work to capture my voice correctly so that Dragon NaturallySpeaking can transcribe it. I do not know if the voice quality is as good on this device as it was using convoys on an older Treo phone.
Now that text needs some serious editing obviously. In a future article I will give some more tutorials about how to improve the accuracy using this type of mobile recorder (aka the non-Nuance approved voice recorders.)
Also, I would highly recommend MVoice as it is a great program and worth the $25. I did want to prove the concept that it can be done without spending additional money. Obviously, doing it without spending extra money takes some extra steps on the treadmill (2 programs, 1 downloaded).
Mvoice makes it a lot easier right from go, and if you ever need to gather evidence against the Chines mafia or a big 4 auditing firm that is complicit in laundering money, that $25 might just save your life ~ literally.
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After attending CES for several years, you would think that I would have a better handle on the planning side of this event. I have exhibited and attended as a sales person and even attended as a journalist. I have managed the setup and design of booths and contracts with the CEA, but every year I always seem to neglect my travel arrangements.
This year is no different and as I approach Christmas I still have a plan for where I’m going, when I’m going, or which hotels in Vegas or even to be on the top of my list this year.
I have no problems in setting up meetings and ensuring that I have a productive stay at CES, but I just can’t seem to bring out the inner travel agent in myself. I typically book most of my stuff through Expedia, or these days and even sometimes go directly to the hotels themselves to book a room.
But I never feel like I got the best deal, and all of the other arrangements are much easier and a much more natural fit for my personality.
We can do a lot of things on the Internet these days, but I suspect that some of us despite all of the ala carte do-it-yourself type of options that are out there, you might be better off in the hands of capable professionals that specialize in the aspects of life that we have severe weaknesses. For me, that’s booking travel arrangements and phone menus.
If you’re going to CES this year, please drop me a line and I’d love to come to meet up with you somewhere at the show.
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This week I am reviewing an issue that I noticed with MindManager Pro 7. It specifically relates to the export of a map into a PowerPoint Presentation.
I’m still trying to document the situation, but wanted to take an initial attempt to describe the issue.
When I have a topic with say 3 sub topics below it and one of those sub topics is just an image, the image will not export to PowerPoint with the other sub topics.
Instead, I must select on that single topic with the image and click the link to add a new slide, just for that image.
Also, I cannot have any text included with the image on any topic, if I want the text to export to Powerpoint.
I have noticed that MindManager seems to work fine, when its generating a mindmap image, but not when its exporting an image.
I first noticed this when I was working on a client web site that specializes in drug rehab, but couldn’t quite put my finger on the problem as I thought it was just a fluke on a presentation with just a single picture. Today, when I was working on a separate presentation for a different customer with a dozen or so images in the mindmap, I noticed that the problem happened consistently.
As I mentioned, I’m still working to identify the parameters of the issue, and I’m hoping to capture it on video.
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