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Think

By Ricky Buchanan on January 3, 2008

Think

Limit your attention to one application – any application – at any time, bring other apps up quickly if you need them, but put them out of sight again just as quickly.

Posted in Neurologically Impaired, New Software, Other Impairment, Users, Vision Impaired | Tagged ADD, ADHD, attention, block distraction, concentration, distraction, free, use the computer better | Leave a response

Dasher – A keyboard alternative for mouse users

By Ricky Buchanan on December 25, 2007

Dasher – A keyboard alternative for mouse users

Dasher is an information-efficient text-entry interface, driven by natural continuous pointing gestures. Dasher is a competitive text-entry system wherever a full-size keyboard cannot be used – for example, when operating a computer one-handed, by joystick, touchscreen, trackball, or mouse; when operating a computer with zero hands (i.e., by head-mouse or by eyetracker); on a palmtop [...]

Posted in Geek, New Software, Primary Mouse Users, Users | Tagged free, keyboard alternative, on screen keyboard, onscreen keyboard, opensource, unusual input devices, virtual keyboard | Leave a response

Warp – Use Spaces with the mouse

By Ricky Buchanan on December 22, 2007

Warp – Use Spaces with the mouse

Warp is a preference pane that allows you to use the mouse to switch between Spaces rather than using the keyboard. I don’t use Spaces in Leopard, but for those who do this looks like a very configurable way to avoid needing the keyboard to move from one space to another. Website: Warp – Ricky [...]

Posted in New Software, Primary Mouse Users, Users | Tagged free, mouse enhancement, spaces enhancement | Leave a response

Answering iChat calls automatically

By Ricky Buchanan on December 21, 2007

Answering iChat calls automatically

Here’s a quick-and-easy OS X 10.5 iChat tip (with a bonus OS X 10.4 variant thrown in, along with a little iTunes/iChat tip) for your Thursday morning.

Posted in Information, Primary Keyboard Users, Primary Switch Users, Users, Vision Impaired, VoiceOver | Tagged audio chat, auto answer chat requests, free, IM, instant message client, instant messages, instant messaging, screen sharing, text chat, text message client, video chat | Leave a response

Leopaque

By Ricky Buchanan on December 1, 2007

Leopaque

Note: Since the Leopard 10.5.2 Update this functionality is now built into Leopard so this program should no longer be needed. Leopaque allows users to disable translucency to get an opaque menu bar in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). The translucent menu bar in Leopard makes for nice eye-candy unless you have low vision or [...]

Posted in Neurologically Impaired, New Software, Users, Vision Impaired | Tagged appearance, free, menu bar | 1 Response

Leopard Dock Color Changer

By Ricky Buchanan on November 16, 2007

Leopard Dock Color Changer

DockColor provides a simple interface to changing the color of the Mac OS X Leopard “shelf” Dock. With a simple color-picker interface, you can change the color of your Dock quickly and easily. DockColor automatically backs up the original files, and you can easily revert back to the original Dock from within DockColor as well. [...]

Posted in Neurologically Impaired, New Software, Users, Vision Impaired | Tagged change dock color, color blind, dock, free | Leave a response

PresButan

By Ricky Buchanan on October 6, 2007

PresButan

PresButan is a very simple daemon program that lets you use return and/or enter to open icons in the Finder.

Posted in Intellectually Impaired, Neurologically Impaired, New Software, Other Impairment, Users | Tagged free | Leave a response

Spark

By Ricky Buchanan on September 23, 2007

Spark

Spark is a powerful, and easy to use shortcuts manager. With Spark you can create Hot Keys to open applications and documents, execute AppleScripts, control iTunes, trigger menu items, and more.

Posted in New Software, OS X, Primary Keyboard Users, Users, VoiceOver | Tagged free, keyboard shortcut, spark | Leave a response

Mail Type Select

By Ricky Buchanan on September 19, 2007

Mail Type Select

Mail Type Select adds Finder-like keyboard navigation to the list of messages in Mail.

Posted in New Software, Primary Keyboard Users, Primary Switch Users, Users, VoiceOver | Tagged free, opensource | Leave a response

One Finger Snap

By Ricky Buchanan on September 6, 2007

One Finger Snap

One Finger Snap is a Preference Pane that brings up the contextual menu whenever you click and hold down the mouse button. This means that you can do everything with a single-button mouse that you can do with a 2-button mouse. Apart from being helpful if you only have (or can only manage) one mouse [...]

Posted in New Software, Primary Mouse Users, Users | Tagged free, mouse enhancement, opensource | Leave a response

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