Celebrate Creativity

Send us Fan Mail Before we begin, let me emphasize that today I'll be talking with a wax figure that never existed– In this case, a figure from literature that was never flesh and bone, but the author of the literary work from which she came created a character that is extremely lifelike, and teaches us a great deal about human nature. I know that in the early 21st century, a group of 100 pro...

Send us Fan Mail The museum was unusually quiet. The lights glowed softly across the polished floor. I made my rounds through the gallery of scientists. There stood Isaac Newton. There stood Marie Curie. And there, at the far end of the room, stood a familiar figure with wild white hair and kind eyes. Albert Einstein. As midnight approached, I noticed something. His eyes seemed to twinkle. A momen...

Send us Fan Mail Night watchman: you would be astonished by many aspects of the modern university that you founded with the University of Virginia. Jefferson: That is most fascinating. "How many students attend today?" Night Watchman: "Mr. Jefferson, the University of Virginia now has roughly twenty-five thousand students, including undergraduate and graduate students." Jeffers...

Send us Fan Mail Mr. Bartley: Mr. Jefferson, the last time we spoke, you had basically written the Declaration of Independence. The United States was fighting Britain in the revolutionary war, and in October 1781 George Washington's troops defeated the British at Yorktown Virginia. We had now won our war for independence. Mr. Jefferson: And by early 1782, my family was back at my home of Mont...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the Hall of Imagination, and episode. 628 - life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness During this week of the 250th anniversary of the birth of the United States, I would like to devote the episodes for Monday, Wednesday and Friday to Thomas Jefferson–the author of the declaration of independence. Episode 1: The young Jefferson and the writing of the Declaration. Epis...

Send us Fan Mail There is something I would like to tell you about my life in Chicago... After all, you might say I am one of its most influential residents.” Who are you? I asked "My name is Jane Addams.” I couldn't believe it! Here a wax figure was talking with me–just like the figures in the toy museum last year-and somehow this was even stranger– This was a individual who was decease...

Send us Fan Mail Hello, I am a nightwatchman, and if you've been listening to my adventures over the past several months—especially during December of last year—you may remember that I was working as the night watchman at a toy museum. In fact, you might enjoy going back and listening to Episodes 526 through 557, where the toys came to life after dark. This is the introduction to a new podcas...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome, my friends, to episode 625, and to a special preview of a brand-new series called The Hall of Imagination, part of Celebrate Creativity. In this series, the figures of history—and even some figures who never existed at all—come to life in an imaginary wax museum. Some of these characters changed the world through science, literature, music, politics, and invention. Others...

Send us Fan Mail https://macmost.com/printable-mac-enhanced-dictation-cheat-sheet.html By the way, the first time you might want to turn voice control off as you go through the sentences, and then later turn voice control on. There are several sections, so without further ado, let's start with text selection Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I wanna talk about another side of voice control - it may be ab and work with scroll  or go to sleep well and individual files in a folder le to do some wonderful things, but there are some programs where voice control it's not able to do a really good job - not because it is inefficient - far from it - but voice control deals with the human voice and doesn&a...

Send us Fan Mail https://support.apple.com/en-au/guide/mac-help/mh40719/mac I certainly am going to talk about a few areas that I want to address in the next two or three episodes, but right now I'm gonna state the obvious–the best way to learn voice control is to use it. Use the Apple support page that I previously mentioned, and if necessary, go over and over and over the commands and what...

Send us Fan Mail "For the next month or so, I'm going to take a break from podcasting. My sleep schedule has become seriously disrupted, and I've also been dealing with pain in my hands and arms. Before I continue creating new episodes, I need to focus on my health, work with my doctor, and become more proficient with Voice Control and some other accessibility tools.  I have an appo...

Send us Fan Mail This podcast episode is an example of dictation. In the next few episodes, I will talk specifically about using dictation in voice control, as well as some of the commands. As for now, do not forget to use enter THAT! - with an emphasis on the THAT! Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.

Send us Fan Mail About two weeks ago, I apologized for not doing an episode for a month. Actually, I did not do an episode for two weeks, but it seemed like a month. I like to think that this episode has some very important uses and organizing your files and folders - how to organize a messy desktop rather than just demonstrate commands. And later, will get into the use of voice control into doing...

Send us Fan Mail Do not say enter! Always say enter THAT! And emphasize the THAT! And for dictation, speak clearly and naturally. Support the show Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.

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Send us Fan Mail Hello, and welcome to Celebrate Creativity. I’m George Bartley. In the last few episodes, I have been talking about Voice Control in a broader way — my own background, some of the reasons I care about it, and some of the larger philosophical questions behind it. What does it mean to use your voice to deal with a machine? What does it mean in terms of independence, creativity, and...

Send us Fan Mail Looking at Life from Both Sides Hello, and welcome to Celebrate Creativity. I’m George Bartley. And I promise that starting in the next episode, I'm going to begin to teach you how to use voice control. But today, I want to talk about accessibility, disability, voice control, and something even larger than all of those: what it means to look at life from more than one side. T...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Celebrate Creativity and the second part of Voice Control on the Macintosh: Why It Matters, and What It Feels Like to Learn It. I hope you realize by now that this podcast has been talking about the importance of voice control and some of the human elements involved in mastering the skills. So rest assured that in a few days, I will deal into the mechanics of voice cont...

Send us Fan Mail Hello - welcome back to How to Talk to Your Mac.  And this is  part one of Voice Control on the Macintosh: Why It Matters, and What It Feels Like to Learn It - in this and the following episode I want to talk about the philosophy behind voice control, and then we'll get into the specifics in future episodes. However, first, I'd like to apologize for the weeks this month...

Send us Fan Mail Now I believe I mentioned that at one time I was doing up to two and three podcasts episodes a day.  As a teenager I had a series of epileptic seizures, and was told that I should not swim - but after I started taking a new medication at that time - Depakote - my seizures became a thing of the past. And I'll talk about a little bit more about that later.  I also started inter...

Send us Fan Mail Hello this is George Bartley. And no, I have not fallen off the face of the Earth.  In fact, my podcast Celebrate Creativity - with its current emphasis on William Shakespeare was in high gear - at one point I was doing two and even three episodes a day. Currently Celebrate Creativity has over 32,000 episodes globally. But that rate of output really couldn't continue very lon...

Send us Fan Mail Up to now, Hamlet has lived inside questions. “Did my uncle really do it?” “Can I trust the Ghost?” “Am I being manipulated?” “Am I losing my mind—or pretending to?” Act 3 Scene 2 is the moment Hamlet says, in effect: “I’m done being uncertain. I’m going to test the truth.” In other words, Hamlet creates a situation where Claudius either sits calmly… or cracks. What makes this sce...

Send us Fan Mail Master Shakespeare, are you ready? SHAKESPEARE: As ready as any man may be, entering a room where love is examined like evidence. GEORGE: That’s exactly it. Because what happens here is not romance. It’s a controlled experiment—and Ophelia is the instrument. GEORGE: Let’s start with the setup. Claudius and Polonius plan to spy. They stage-manage Ophelia. They put a book in her han...

Send us Fan Mail GEORGE: So right away: the scene begins with the king and queen acting like concerned parents. But it feels… staged.   SHAKESPEARE: Because it is staged. Mark their language: they crave a cause, a label, a tidy diagnosis — “What ails him?” Yet their hands are already in the plot. They have hired watchers. Concern and control wear the same cloak here. GEORGE: And the watchers are R...