Here’s my contribution to the funny friday blog posts

In direct response to Morten's blog Are Violent Video Games Adequately Preparing Children For The Apocalypse?

Here is the conclusion...

Dear Swyx UsersÂ

Do you know that you can switch between handset and speaker phone while in a conversation?

 

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… and cool new skin, designed by graphical user interface experts. That’s in the next SwyxIt! version. I’m using an internal build on a daily basis for some time now. Would love to show a screenshot, but I can’t. You’ll have to wait for official announcements.

Ok, just a tiny snippet:

Dear Swyx Users

Did you know that incoming callers can control the reproduction of an announcement via the phones keypad?

When listening to voice prompts, SwyxWare can offer callers to rewind or fast-forward the currently played message.

How does it work:  If the caller would like the hear the beginning of the announcement again, one can press "1" and the message starts again at the beginning.

To rewind the last 10 seconds of the currently played announcement, one can press "4" and "5" brings the announcement to stop. The caller can continue...

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Sometimes small features make the difference. A few minutes ago I recognized a new context menu entry on music files stored on my Notebook:



If you click it, a small player opens which allows you to control a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) media device. In this cases it’s my Roku Soundbridge network MP3 player which Windows discovered automatically. The player looks like this:

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If you read yourself through all the blogs world wide these days you find that nearly everyone has to say something about Evolution or Charles Darwin. Even those who are more after Creationism.

If you are the kind of person that will get exited every time your car' odometer reaches some 'magic' sequence of digits, then friday the 13th will be your lucky day. That's because, at precisely 23:31:30 UTC on February 13, 2009, the 10-digit "epoch time" clock used by most Unix computers ( Unix time ) will display all ten decimal digits in sequence.

Ever needed a bad excuse to party? Well, then join these guys: 1234567890day.com

Anyone wants to join my SwyxWare-reaches-11223344-calls-party? It will take place by the water-cooler of the IT-department...

Dear Swyx UsersÂ

Did you know that Swyx allows supervisors and call centre manager to monitor conversation of their agents?

Call intrusion is part of Swyx Option Pack Monitor and enables managers to silently listen into current conversations on the Swyx Server. The intruder can also barge in to the conversation and assist the agent or he can join as a full participant and talk to both parties simultaneously. In the screen shot, John is intruding on David’s conversation. A simple right click on Davids...

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Do you think the NHL finals or this years Super Bowl where breathtaking ?

Forget about the ICC Cricket World Cup, the Dakar Rally, the Volvo Ocean Race, the Wimbledon Tennis Championships or the Olympic Games.

The new and most exciting sport of the year 2009 is Submarine Racing !

French political elites are pushing through, at home and abroad, the most unscrupulous law project on copyright: HADOPI, which stands for Haute Autorité pour la Diffusion des Œuvres et la Protection des droits sur Internet (high authority for the distribution of works and the protection of rights on the Internet).

Read the whole article on Ludwig von Mises Institute

 Don't take the following news flash too serious...