As with Siri and iOS dictation, you need to be online for this to work: Mountain Lion captures your voice and sends the recording to the cloud for processing.

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Fact is, if you want to use your computer for much of anything beyond word processing, number crunching or surfing the web, having an Apple computer is an enormous liability.

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If no criminal tax case is already underway, your case should be referred to the civil branch of the IRS for processing and amended return filings.

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If you really like one effect and you want it applied to all of your photos, a drop-down menu lets you choose it for automatic post processing, instantly applying, say, the color-saturated "More Cowbell" effect to each shot.

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Imagine for a moment that it is your job to convince me to buy Microsoft Word as my word processing program.

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There are, for instance, in the crook of your elbow as many as six different types of bacteria, processing the fats that ooze from your skin and helping to moisturise it in return.

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For example, your casual email conversation about a Homeaway.com rental will probably confuse Worldmate's processing engine, again forcing a manual entry.

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