August 2007
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Create speakable Safari bookmarks
A tip from Macworld on how to create speakable Safari bookmarks, which also has a lot of general information about the OS X built in speech recognition. Speech recognition is one of those features that has been present in the Mac OS for many years, and yet it’s not widely used – for any number [...]
Voice Candy
Voice Candy is a fun and useful recorder for your Mac. Think of it as Photo Booth for your microphone. As well as the fun uses of Voice Candy, there are a multitude of useful things it can do – record reminders with attached alarm timers, record notes to save to the Desktop, record and [...]
New British voice for Mac OS X
Acapela Group and AssistiveWare have introduced a new British English text-to-speech voice available for Infovox iVox and the quality is simply amazing. I use the Infovox iVox voices with VisioVoice to help me access my computer, and prefer the British English voices rather than the American; they are easier for this Australian to understand. My [...]
Master Your Dock with These Tips, Tricks and Applications
MacApper has a great post about getting the most from your Dock: Master Your Dock with These Tips, Tricks and Applications – Ricky Buchanan
Lilt
Lilt utilizes the ambient light and sudden motion sensors found on recent Apple Macintosh portable computers to trigger actions such as launching applications, files, or scripts. By launching a script Lilt can do some amazing things. Wave your hand over the light sensors (located under the speaker grills) and play your next iTunes track. Tilt [...]
Displaying plain text by default in mail.app
Most email you receive probably appears in fancy fonts with colours and backgrounds (it's HTML, just like a web page) and this can be hard to read. If you use the Mail.app for your email you can press Command-Option-P, or select View->Message->Plain Text Alternativefrom the menu bar, and if the email has a plain text [...]
Keeping a Digital Library
Keeping your CD and DVD collections on the computer can make them much easier to access and use. ITunes makes it easy to keep music from your CDs on the computer – just use the iTunes “import” command and your music is copied to the computer. Keeping a DVD collection on the computer is a little trickier, but you don't have to be a geek to do it.
Move files without drag and drop
This article is about an application which is unfortunately no longer available. I have left the article here for reference purposes only. Move attempts to deal with the problems that blind users face with drag and drop. Move will move the selected items in the finder to a chosen directory. It will then open that [...]
Lioncourt.com
There is a new website devoted to Mac users who are blind or vision impaired: Lioncourt.com. This is the site’s own description: This site is dedicated to offering information and links related to the use of Apple products by the blind and visually impaired. Its content is free and may be shared with others. We [...]
Dejal Time Out!
Dejal’s Time Out! will gently remind you to take a break on a regular basis, giving you a chance to rest hands and eyes. It has both regular and “micro” pauses and can be configured to suit many different usage patterns.
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