 By BD Bondy
This year I'm on a seemingly never-ending quest to retire, and remain alive doing it. My plan is to stop working on computers completely and that means not to refurbish and give away computers anymore. I plan to give away all my spare parts and all my computer repair toys that I have. If you’re interested in picking up the ball and running with it, please let me know. I’ve given away over 500 computers, which you all have given me. For that, I thank you. So today I'm writing my tech tip on my phone. I don't usually do this. I prefer to sit down at my desk and write a tech tip. The other thing I like to do is to use Carol's iPad with an external keyboard and mouse. It’s easier to type that way for me. Today, I am using a transcribing tool that's on my iPhone. I asked Siri to open it up. I didn't know the name of it. I just asked her to open up a voice recorder and Siri did that (Voice Memos on the iPhone) and now I'm literally talking into my phone, and after I'm done, after I press stop, it gives me an option to look at the transcript and I can then copy and paste the transcript into a writing tool. So that's my tech tip today. If you want to write on your phone, you can actually just talk to it and you can edit the transcript, copy and paste it into some editing tool, and it's weird, interesting, fun, and extremely useful. Secondarily, you may gain from this an awareness that you can ask Siri to do stuff. Delegate some of the things you want to do on your to Siri, like re-booting, open files, read messages, open wallet (I can never find that one) and the like. Whatever assistant your phone has, they want to help.
4 Comments
Kathie Lostetter
8/29/2025 07:35:35 am
I am one of the people who got a computer that Brian fixed. It always amazes me how many he revived and shared them. I like this new tip about the transcribing. Thanks Brian for all your great computer work for the community!
cristina
8/29/2025 11:13:08 am
Thank you Brian for your selfless work fixing and sharing “devices” for and with the community - Let’s not forget the years of weekly Tech Tips and your years of volunteer firemanning, just to name just a few of your contributions to the community over the past decades. The Chama River Valley is forever better because of you (AND Carol, that goes w/out saying although it should be said :) )
Ann Cunningham
9/2/2025 06:56:14 pm
Thank yiu Brian fire all the times you have repaired and replaced computers for us over 20 plus years. You have kept us functioning. We've reached the point that we only use our tablets and phones to do what we used a computer for. Lack if mobility required our slow but necessary transformation. You and Carol have always been here when we needed you in many ways. Thank you, thank you.💖💖.
Bill Page
9/5/2025 11:05:48 am
And, Brian, remember the part you played in extending our Leave a Reply. |
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