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Make Your iPhone A Personal Library
Anyone who has browsed iPhone apps know that the iPhone can do just about anything. Now it can even be your own personal, portable library. You can use your iPhone to carry around massive amounts of specialised information without having to carry around all those books.
Dictate News: Bluetooth, Mouse Control, and Discounts
Two of the biggest requests since MacSpeech Dictate has been released have been the ability to dictate with a Bluetooth headset, and to have voice control of the mouse. Today I’m pleased to bring you news of both and some discounts too!
iPhone/iPod Touch Voice Commands Cheat Sheet
The iPhone and iPod Touch don’t have a lot of voice control commands, but they’re very picky about you getting the wording precisely right. We’ve compiled a printable cheat sheet you can store with your iPhone/iPod Touch while you’re learning them.
Type Faster On Your iPhone/iPod Touch
Getting information into your iPhone or iPod Touch can be frustrating at best. Here are some gadgets and strategies that can help improve your iPhone typing speed, and hopefully lessen the frustration involved.
Aid Accessibility With OS X Parental Controls
Parental Controls are a feature of OS X which are intended to help parents limit and monitor a child’s computer use. Due to their ability to simplify the computer’s interface they also have potential as an accessibility aid for cognitively impaired users.
Unusually Creative Stands for iPhone/iPod Touch
Everybody has different positioning needs, and people are surprisingly creative about it when they need to be.
MacSpeech Dictate International: Multi-Language Speech Recognition
Finally, multi-language continuous speech recognition is available for OS X. MacSpeech has released Dictate International, which offers recognition in US and UK English, French, German, and Italian. It has been implied that Spanish will soon be added also.
Accessibility Changes Lives
This is the first post in a series about assistive technology. I want to show you why accessibility, adaptive technology, assistive technology, and other disability-friendly practices matter more than you think.
Five Things You Don't Know About Me And ATMac
We’ve had a bunch of tech-heavy posts lately, so I thought it might be a good time for a change of pace. Here are some things you might not know about me, Ricky Buchanan, and about ATMac.
Snow Leopard Assistive Technology Compatibility List
It can be a tough job to check out that your system is fully compatible with a new operating system before you install it. To help out assistive technology users, I’m compiling compatibility information for as much assistive technology and AT-related software as I can find.
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