March 2009
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My Computer Won't Stop Talking!
Quite often on Apple’s Universal Access forums there are questions from users who have found that their computer’s suddenly started talking to them, and putting a black box around whatever they’re working on. What’s happening?
Weekend Round-Up: Link Soup
There are a lot of websites and articles that I’ve collected lately and haven’t had time to share with you all, so I’ve designated this weekend “Link Soup Weekend” to give me a chance to do just that.
Review: OtterBox iPod Touch Defender Case
I posted a while back that I was looking for an iPod Touch case that would offer real protection in case of the device being dropped or dinged – the OtterBox Defender case is what I finally bought and it’s truly fantastic.
Safari Commands Cheat Sheet for MacSpeech Dictate 1.3
MacSpeech Dictate is a great program but learning so many commands at once can be intimidating. Here’s a quick document to help you learn and remember the important commands for controlling Safari with MacSpeech Dictate version 1.2.1.
Eight Growl Tools You Really Need
Growl is a unified notification system for Mac OS X. It lets any application send you messages and lets you control the way the messages are delivered to you. Here are a bunch of applications to provide Growl notifications for different events.
Talking iPod Shuffle
There’s a new iPod Shuffle, and like the newest iPod Nano it can read out things like song titles and playlist names. Unlike the iPod Nano, the VoiceOver feature is enabled by default and is part of their standard advertising.
Ricky's Must-Have Software List
Recently I had to re-install Leopard and all the software on my computer. As I was waiting for things to download I made a list of all the software that, for me, is a “must have”.
Why Has My Movie Disappeared From iTunes?
You spot a new movie on iTunes that you want to see, and perhaps even add it to your cart. Later, you go back to rent or buy the movie but all traces of it seem to have disappeared – you can’t find it in iTunes at all. Here’s what’s happened to it.
M Cubed Pledges Software Accessibility
Martin Pilkington of M Cubed Software has made a blog post entitled The Accessible Mac. In the post he discusses the challenges and difficulties involved in making OS X software accessible. Martin pledges that all M Cubed’s software will be fully accessible by the end of 2009, challenging fellow developers to do the same.
Ghotit Seeks Mac OS X Developer
Ghotit is a spelling checker especially designed for those with spelling and language issues, especially dyslexia. It will pick up, for example, the mistakes in a sentence like “I will meat you their tomorrow” where a regular spell checker would miss these as each individual word is correctly spelled.
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