Dragon 11 wants you to tweet. There are new Natural Language Commands for searching Twitter, and the dictation box even has a built-in character counter. As any dedicated tweeter knows, a trick to conveying information in only 140 characters is compressing those pesky long URLs. Here's a way to do it in KnowBrainer 2010:

Script - Name: Compress That Address

Category - ie6_kb.dvc

SetMicrophone 0  'Microphone off
SendSystemKeys "{Alt+d}",1 'Go to address bar
SendSystemKeys "{Ctrl+c}" 'Copies highlighted URL
Wait 300
AppBringUp "www.is.gd/" 'launches URL shortening service in new tab
Wait 500
SendSystemKeys "{Ctrl+v}",1 'pastes URL to be shortened
SendSystemKeys "{Enter}",1 'performs the shortening
SendSystemKeys "{Ctrl+c}",1 'copies the new, shortened URL
SendSystemKeys "{Ctrl+w}" 'closes tab
TTSPlaystring "Shortened" 'speaks quoted text
SetMicrophone 1 'Microphone on

Of course, there's one more thing you'll need for using Twitter efficiently: add "hash tag" to the vocabulary.

Written form: #

Spoken form: hash tag

Properties: Insert 1 space before and 0 spaces after. Format next word without capitals.

Cheers,

Eric Wright At work: DNS 12 Pro. At home: DNS 11.5 Pro,  KnowBrainer 2011, and Utter Command by RedStart Systems; Dragon Dictate 3 for Mac

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Whoops, sorry about that! My face is red. It must be a problem with Twitpic, where the images are hosted. Regardless, I've added text to the post. The contents of the script and the vocabulary entry are above. Enjoy!

Eric Wright At work: DNS 12 Pro. At home: DNS 11.5 Pro,  KnowBrainer 2011, and Utter Command by RedStart Systems; Dragon Dictate 3 for Mac

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