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While this looks like progress, and a potential path for graphene production, it still seems a long ways off from commercial viability. Diamonds went through a similar hype. It may be technically possible to make diamond with a torch or even peanut butter, but commercially producing large, clean gemstones (rather than grit/powder) requires much more involved processes. In this case, a blender could probably scale up easier, but it isn't "metre-scale sheets of graphene" already possible with CVD.


"We'll replace glass with sapphire crystal. A material so hard, you'll need diamonds in your pocket to leave a scratch"

I got a laugh from this because the back of my iPhone 4 had a few big scratches in it literally from carrying diamonds in my pocket (My company sells lab-grown diamonds).


If you are already logged in to an account with Dragon running, will it let you dictate into system password boxes (OS X Dictation does not when I tried it)? If so, having the computer auto-login on boot to a secondary account should accomplish what you need. Then dictate your password into the Fast user switching box.

Otherwise, user switching can also be activated with Automator or Terminal. OS X Dictation will type into a password prompt in Terminal, so a script might be able to switch to your account with password dictation (or with your password stored in the script, if you trust that).

When done in your secure account, just run another script or reboot to switch back to the secondary account.

Here are some example scripts: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2011081307461141...


This is an excellent idea and something I'm going to implement immediately! It will certainly give me a level of security whilst I look at some hardware solutions, thanks :-)


I had the same "Leai ndot" impression of the blog logo, though felt it was more legible on your homepage.

Maybe connect the post and dot with a bar, or remove some of the spacing. Make the "o" a solid dot instead?


Same thoughts here on the web context of dot spelled out. However, that is an easier hurdle to overcome than the difficult pronunciation/spelling of your former name, as long as you write it as "Learndot" instead of "Learn." Once people learn the d-o-t the first time (no pun intended), they shouldn't have trouble with it going forward.

We went through similar issues in our rebranding, with both a dot and pronounceability (D.NEA). In our case, the '.' is not spelled out, and the domain works with or without it (d.neadiamonds.com). Being primarily internet based, most people don't need to pronounce it, they just follow a link or search for the name. If we talk to them, they'll hear us say it when answering the phone, but we aren't too concerned with how people pronounce it. After five years of using this name, most people get it close enough.

Learndot looks to be an overall better name than Matygo.


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