November 2008
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iSign – Animated ASL dictionary for iPhone and iPod Touch
iSign is a tutorial and reference program for American Sign Language (ASL) from iDev2. It was designed specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The program contains an animated phrase book of 800 signs.
Black Friday Apple Deals Internationally
Apple doesn’t often hold sales, but they seem to have gone out of their way to advertise a one-day sale internationally for this Friday – Black Friday in the USA. MacRumours is reporting that Apple retail stores will be able to match the prices of non-Apple retailers, which may mean big discounts for customers.
MacSpeech Dictate Instructional Videos
The MacSpeech Dictate people have been busy updating their website recently. As well as significant updates to the knowledgebase, and new forums for users, they are now also offering free instructional videos.
Weekend Round-Up: iPhone Update, Christmas Carvival, Cheap Software
There’s been an iPhone software update but it doesn’t seem to have many AT implications, the Christmas edition of the AT blog carnival is nearly upon us, and Give Good Food To Your Mac is offering heavily discounted software and lots of it is AT friendly.
Apple TV Software Update 2.3
The software which runs the Apple TV device has now been updated to version 2.3. This most recent upgrade includes several improvements and bug fixes including support for third party remote controls.
Laptop Orchestras – Making Music With Unusual Inputs
In the Apple Pro Profiles section there’s a great article about a group called the Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk) who use MacBooks and a variety of unusual input techniques and devices to make computer music.
Weekend Round-Up: Connect With ATMac
You can now connect with ATMac via Facebook and Twitter, as well as our regular free subscription options which include receiving posts via email.
Webbla – For People Who Remember Websites By Their Appearance
The Finder, iTunes, and iPhoto all now let you browse through your materially visually if you wish, instead of looking at lines of text. The address book program Espy is a third party utility we reviewed that does the same for address book entries, and now we have Webbla which does the same for bookmarks.
Turn Handwriting Into Text With InkWell
Did you know that Mac OS X comes with a built in handwriting recognition system known as InkWell. If you have a pen and tablet for input, you can use it right away with no set-up needed! It’s known to be quirky and hasn’t been updated for a while, but Apple recently advertised for a handwriting engineer so there’s hope yet!
Changing Narrators With Ghostreader or Infovox iVox Voices
Did you know that you can change narrators automatically when you’re using GhostReader? It’s an undocumented feature, and only works with the voices from Infovox iVox or ConvenienceWare, but I’ve confirmed that it does work.
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