September 24, 2007 Archive Entries: How I Met Your Mother - Season Premiere, Jott is So Cool!, This is a test of Jott....,

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This is a test of Jott....

This is a test of Jott. I'm actually talking into my telephone right now and Jott is transcribing my voice. It's gonna save it and convert it to text and then it's gonna post it automatically to the blog. Jott is really cool. Give it a try.
Click here to listen - Powered by Jott

Warning - For this test to make sense be sure to read the Jott is So Cool! explanation.

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Posted by Gary on Monday at 12:53 PM on September 24, 2007.
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Jott is So Cool!

So many times I wish I could call someone late at night or early in the day to leave a message without waking them. THere are some services that delay delivery like this, but they're (at least in the past) costly and slightly difficult.

Enter Jott: It lets you set up a list of people on-line. You call Jott say who/what you want to Jott (you put yourself in the list too) and then leave a thirty second message and it sends it to their e-mail. Did I leave out that it very accurately transcribes the audio file into text for you too?!? And it's free?!? And it includes an audio file link too, just in case the transcription is garbled. Think about that before I tell you what else it does...

It'll post it to a blog for you too (Blogger, WordPress (even if self-hosted), TypePad, LiveJournal), it'll Twitter and Jaiku it for you too and post it to a Yahoo! Group and 30 boxes and you can use it to get Zillow (home value) quotes too. And it'll set up reminders for you too. It's all hands-free with your phone. And it's free!

I just posted a sample Jott for you to read, if you listen you can hear a slight mistake but it's close enough, you've never know unless you listened to it. Other than the sentence in bold that says to read this message, it's just cut and patse. FYI, the sample is a cheat, I really posted it to WordPress and just copied the post here for demonstrations sake. It currently does not work on Movable Type, I think it's just the way MT handles multiple blogs, but since it uses XMLRPCs pretty close to the other blogs I'm hoping it's a simple fix (but it's beyond me).

You must try this!!! I've get it set for a few friends, my work e-mail and my home e-mail so I can just call with reminders for me or to get free 30 second transcriptions of text for e-mail that I need to send back at the office.

Sometimes it does take a few minutes (no more than 5 minutes, usually 2 minutes) for the Jott to get transcribed.

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Posted by Gary on Monday at 12:54 PM on September 24, 2007.
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How I Met Your Mother - Season Premiere

So I just kept thinking while watching this episode that the tough girl looked an awful lot like Mandy Moore. Then I saw in the credits that Mandy Moore did one of the songs and thought that was a coincidence. Duh! It really was Mandy Moore on the show.

But the best part was at the end, when they showed you the http://www.SlapCountDown.com/ web site!!! (If you didn't watch the show last season, I can't explain it).

On a semi-related note, Mandy Moore and Rachael Yamagata are playing in Detroit tomorrow. I'm not really sure what Mandy sings, but I'm sure I'd recognize something, but I really like Rachel. I sure wish that I felt better already...