A little about Playa Zipolite, The Beach of the Dead . . .

Playa Zipolite, Oaxaca, Southern Mexico, on the Pacific Ocean. A little bit about my favorite little get-away on this small world of ours.

Zipolite, a sweaty 30-minute walk west from Puerto Angel, brings you to Playa Zipolite and another world. The feeling here is 1970's - Led Zep, Marley, and scruffy gringos.

A long, long time ago, Zipolite beach was usually visited by the Zapotecans...who made it a magical place. They came to visit Zipolite to meditate, or just to rest.

Recently, this beach has begun to receive day-trippers from Puerto Angel and Puerto Escondido, giving it a more TOURISTY feel than before.

Most people come here for the novelty of the nude beach, yoga, turtles, seafood, surf, meditation, vegetarians, discos, party, to get burnt by the sun, or to see how long they can stretch their skinny budget.

I post WWW Oaxaca, Mexico, Zipolite and areas nearby information. Also general budget, backpacker, surfer, off the beaten path, Mexico and beyond, information.

REMEMBER: Everyone is welcome at Zipolite.

ivan

Monday, July 9, 2012

Viva Voice Search

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Viva Voice Search

JUL04
201213 COMMENTS AND 0 REACTIONSWRITTEN BY JOHN CALYPSO

We started using computers when card punch readers were the order of the day – ancient times.

While working at Capitol Records in the mid-seventies we owned one of the first IMSAI 8080computers – arguably the first microcomputer, although it was large enough to call it a mini-computer and expensive. C/PM was the operating system – later it ran FORTRAN and BASIC as well.

During that same period we had access to a time share computer at UCLA. We used that to evaluate and determine available commercial components from actual design formula parameters. A real design to prototype time saver.

We got onboard and championed the two Steve’s (Jobs and Wozniak) Apple products over Bill Gates more structured, less user friendly Microsoft (IBM world) products; perhaps choosing the wrong horse to make the big bucks then? Back in the late 90′s we abandoned our Apple affiliation feeling the closeness of the two technologies had Gates products reluctantly a winner based on price, demand and massive amounts of software.

Here we are 37 years later from those beginnings, an older and perhaps wiser computer user – but truly less involved – “USER” is the key word. We have several years ago left development and programming to the likes of our now 22 year old son and others with youthful energy and interest

It has to be conceded that the United States engineers were in the forefront of computer technologies early development – on this July Fourth we salute them for that.

Computer technology in some respects has evolved more slowly than we had hoped and dreamed back in those early days. We had envisioned keyboard-less computers before now. We should have been successfully conversing with our computers long ago.

In that light – are you using Google Chrome as a browser? If not you are missing an advanced technology – Google’s Voice Search.

If you have a built in microphone (or an outboard installed) you merely click the microphone icon in the right corner of the Google search window and state your query (see photo below) – very cool!

Google Voice Search Screen (Red circle marks the spot to Click and talk)

Señora Calypso and I are avid Google searches.We encourage you to try Voice Search – a real time saver.

We have spent a tidy sum on voice recognition software programs over the years. Perhaps we will take a stab at one of the current favorite voice recognition programs again. In the meantime Viva Voice Search! Stay Tuned!

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