January 2009
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Weekend Round-Up: Akismet, AT Carnival, Heat Waves
Spam control plugin triumphs with Akismet, there’s another AT blog carnival coming up soon, and Ricky’s dealing with a heat wave. It’s all too much!
Vocalia – Speech Recognition on your iPhone
Vocalia is an iPhone dialler which provides speech recognition running directly on your iPhone.
Bookshare Gets A Makeover
Bookshare, the free service that offers US residents with qualifying disabilities access to more than 42,000 digital books, textbooks, teacher-recommended reading, periodicals and assistive technology tools has gotten a makeover.
Proloquo2Go – AAC for iPhone and iPod Touch
AssistiveWare and Sennott Consulting have announced that they are working on a groundbreaking Alternative & Augmentative Communication (AAC) program for Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch called Proloquo2Go. It’s expected to ship by the end of March, 2009.
How Can I Dictate In Other Languages?
Now that MacSpeech Dictate International has been released, dictating in French, German, and Italian is simple. With a little ingenuity, you can even dictate in Spanish or Dutch.
Why You Want To Run WebKit Nightlies
Are you a VoiceOver user who’s frustrated with the bugs in Safari and is looking for a better option? Running a WebKit Nightly might be the solution you’re looking for.
Sign Smith ASL – Animated dictionary for iPhone and iPod Touch
Sign Smith ASL is a tutorial and phrase book for American Sign Languane (ASL) from VDCom3D. The program is available in three versions, containing animated phrase books of between 20 and 1200 signs.
Weekend Round-Up: We're back for 2009
The break was great, and now we’re back recharged and ready to face 2009. What do you look for in a case for your iPod or iPhone?
7 Ways To Stop Your Arms Hurting
Are you like many people in this keyboarding age whose arms, wrists, or hands hurt from typing or mousing too much? Even if you don’t have full blown RSI or carpal tunnel, pain after using the computer too much can be disabling, and a signal that you may be in store for worse if you don’t change things. So what can you do?
Use Stickies To Help You Focus
Are you one of those people who, when trying to just look one small fact up on Wikipedia, emerges 2 hours later with a dazed look because of all the irrelevant new knowledge you accidentally gained? During those 2 hours, should you have been working or studying instead? Here’s a simple idea to help you stay focussed.
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