Techie Thursday

David Pogue loves the new version of the speech-recognition software Dragon NaturallySpeaking. “Like Having a Secretary in Your PC,” the title claims. (Windows only.)

Meanwhile, Walt Mossberg warns against having more than one firewall and anti-virus checker. (Umm, that would be Windows only, too.)

At The Apple Blog they try and help choose from among the various browsers for OS X. (Mac only.)