ATMac

You are browsing the archives of 2007 August.

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 of reasons, including [...]

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 send [...]

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 [...]

MacApper has a great post about getting the most from your Dock:
Master Your Dock with These Tips, Tricks and Applications
- Ricky Buchanan, ATMac

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 [...]

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 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 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 directory and make it the front most window in the Finder. Selecting the directory is done with a standard put file dialog.
This [...]

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 ask, [...]

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.