Dragon Naturally Speaking is a less than perfect software product for speech recognition. For those who are not fast typers, this software may be of great use once fully understood and applied. However for those who are fast typers this product may not be a necessity. Basically, the more this software is used, the more words it will be able to recognize and the "smarter"...

I love anything to do with mythical creatures, Dragons being my all time favorite.  When my son and his wife went on vacation this year they borrowed my car, which they normally do.  It has actually travelled to more places with them than with me!  During their 2 week stay in the US they took in the splendor and pompetry of Medieval Times.  I've only been to one performa...

I love when a random shopping expedition turns into a  treasure trove of wonderful finds.Tonight I was playing taxi driver to my youngest daughter and then courier to my oldest and when I started out I expected to drop by an Art store when I had finished my errands but things took a turn and I ended up instead at the opposite end of the city with little time left to run the errand I'd ...

My daughter loves to collect dragons and after a while they become very expensive. I decided to check the internet to find a place to buy her dragons that was a little cheaper. I got very lucky with Koehlerhomedecor.com. They sell many novelty items but the only thing I was interested in was a nice looking dragon pencil cup that was $6.39. This price was so cheap that I was worried about the qu...

Have you gathered by now that I am a collector of dragons? This handsome fellow is a Hong Tze Red dragon made from resin and intricately carved with an incredible amount of detail.  He is also very difficult to dust properly :)My children purchased this fellow for me as a "just because" gift one year and he sits along with other dragon figurines on a hallway table where anyone co...

Dragons have been an integral part of Magic the Gathering and this 15 card set highlights that. This set is made up of 15 of the best dragons in Magic the Gathering's 15 year history. Each card comes in a distinctive foil finish. 6 classic dragon cards have new artwork commissioned from artists including Justin Sweet, Todd Lockwood and D. Alexander Gregory.The 15 cards in the set are Bladew...

I burn a lot of incense and I like having an closed Incense burner so that my small curious dog will not get his little nose burnt on the incense. I received this dragon incense burner as a gift recently. I love dragons so this was a perfect gift for me. The incense burner can be used to burn your incense in or you can just use it as room decor. It is a 5 headed dragon painted in a bronzish sha...

This is the second book I have read Allyson James. This is the second book in the Dragon series. The first book was Dragon Heat.  I preferred the first book in the series compared to this one. Although this book was still a good read. Allyson has a good intriguing writing style with lots of passion. I am looking forward to reading the next in the series.Story (synopsis): When Saba Wat...

  If you played Dragon Quest 8, you've seen this game before graphically.  Cel-shading, maybe a touch sharper, but they recycle enemies and characters more times than I could possibly imagine.  The only different characters are probably main ones (the townspeople and enemies are exactly the same as Dragon Quest 8).  The music is forgettable although the battle theme is n...

I purchased this book for the book club I'm a member of after reading the little blurb about it in the catalog. The book is called The Unexpected Dragon and is actually three books in one. The first book is titled  "Pigs Don't Fly" and is about a young girl named Summerwho finds herself alone and with a magic ring that lets her communicate with animals as if they were hum...

At my second arrive at Batam city; I do not bring any gift from my hometown because my hands were full at that time, so I seek a perfect gift for my wife. Alone, I went to a shop that sells Chinese Giok which located at Penuin market. Personally, I do not have experiences about Chinese Giok. They sell so many kinds of Chinese Giok, and this makes me dizzy. There are Fish Giok, Frog Giok, Dragon...

This movie is the reason I bought a dvd player so long ago, this is an incredible movie!  Michelle Yoah, Chow Yun-Fat were just astounding!  They didn't even need to talk to convey emotion, dialog, perfect chemistry between 2 actors.  AngLee certainly hit it out of the park! The special effects, the one everyone else tries to be but still can't quite master, this film set...

Pete's Dragon is a classical Disney movie. It has now been fully restored and is available on DVD, which I thought was great because it can now be passed down from generation to generation. This movie is rated G for General Audiences. It is partly a musical film, which I thought was awesome. It is about an orphan boy named Pete who runs away to Maine with his best friend, the lovable someti...

The game "Shrek Dragon's Tale" is meant for the V.Smile game system. It can be played on the larger system meant for the TV or the handheld Pocket system.  In this game, Dragon is sick and so you must choose to be Shrek or Fiona and find the medicine that Dragon needs. Other characters from the movie are also in the game such as Puss In Boots and Donkey.  What is so grea...

This game, I'm not gonna lie, I spent only 1 hour playing it.Why? Because it was soo boring, its like Pokemon done right, but wrong at the same time. The thing it did right was it wasn't a Birdseye view like Pokemon but somehow the battle system is just plain boring,maybe because it is a slow turnbased system used in games back in the 90s!! The graphic is probably the best on the Ninten...

Once you see these cute little guys, and hold one in your hand you will fall in love.  I first came across Pocket Dragons when my family and I were at a Collectible Convention in Rosemont, Illinois.  When we walked by their booth for the first time I fell in love, they were so adorable!!  What was also neat was that weekend their creator was their signing autographs so I was able...

Dragon Naturally Speaking 9.5 Vista- This program made by Nuance allows you to speak into your computer and the computer types what you say. The good thing about this program is that once you get it trained it can save you a lot of time typing. However, you have to be willing to train it a couple of times. Training consists of reading passages to the computer while the computer program gets u...

Aunt Dimity Slays the Dragon is a novel in a mystery series that I have been reading off and on over the past year or so.  It is written by Nancy Atherton and is very enjoyable and a little on the supernatural side.Lori Shepard and husband Bill are Americans living in a quaint English village by the name of Finch.  A Renaissance Faire, King Wilfred's Faire, is coming to town for t...

As a children's librarian Erec Rex is one of my favorite books to recommend to Harry Potter fans young and old.  The book can be enjoyed by reader's 8 and up, but will probably appeal most to ages 10 and up.Erec is a somewhat like Harry Potter: he doesn't know much about his parents and weird things seem to happen to him.  We meet Erec when he is 12 and first discovers a m...

This game fixed a lot of the problems I had with the first one.  Your energy blasts can be done more reliably in mid-air to an opponent on the ground and you can transform in the middle of battle, or you can choose the fused/transformed version at the start.I'm glad to see this storyline play so well too.  In this game, you basically hear voiceovers as you fight and before battle,...