MacPower users episode 527, dictation and text capture. Hello everyone I am David Sparks and welcome to the Mac Power Users and as always

we are joined by my fellow co-host Mr Stephen Hackett.

How are you doing Stephen?

I'm good David, how are you?

Excellent man.

I'm doing great.

And this is a show that is right up my alley.

We've been wanting to talk about text,

or at least I've been wanting to talk about text and dictation for a couple

of years now on MPU. We just hadn't got around to it. So today's show is all about how we

capture text and but before we do that I guess there's a few announcements aren't there?

Yeah we got a couple of things going on some people had asked me to in my life to make sure I mentioned this on the show, but I am doing some 512 pixels merchandise right now.

So the day this comes out, there's only a couple of days left to get this because like the t-shirts are

unlimited run so I'd love if you would check those out thank you to everyone who

did check them out and I think we are going to do some more MPU merch, maybe later in the year.

We have a couple ideas around that, but for now this is what I'm doing.

It's a joke on Huey Lewis's song, It's hip to be Square, but it uses the little 512 Mac icon. I thought it was very clever. Can I tell you a story David about this idea?

Please do. Because it is related to our topic, it's not just me.

All right. So I had wanted to do another piece of merchandise for the blog

and I wasn't really sure what to do,

and this idea sort of came to me while I was grocery shopping.

You know, some people think in the shower, some people think when they exercise, and of

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