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By Ricky Buchanan on January 22, 2010
The Mac Video Tutorial Subtitles Project captions Apple’s tutorial vdeos in multiple languages, including English. They want to make this great resource available to non-English speaking users, and to those with hearing impairments or language processing problems.
Posted in Deaf, Hearing Impaired, Information, Neurologically Impaired, OS X, Users | Tagged beginners, free, learning, productivity |
By Ricky Buchanan on December 10, 2008
Keyboard shortcuts are a quick way of getting many things done without needing to access the menus or the mouse. If you know to press command-s to save your work, you’ve used a keyboard shortcut. For people who primarily use a keyboard or a switch interface, using keyboard shortcuts can save a lot of time and effort.
Posted in Educators, Information, OS X, Overuse Injuries, Primary Keyboard Users, Primary Switch Users, Simple, Supporters, Users | Tagged carpal tunnel syndrome, efficiency, features, free download, keyboard shortcut, keyboard shortcuts, memory aid, overuse, overuse injury, productivity, repeditive strain injury, rsi, save time, shortcut keys, strain, tendonitis, tension, time saving, use the computer better, use the computer faster |
By Ricky Buchanan on September 15, 2008
BBAutoComplete adds word auto-completion to scriptable applications. You type the start of a word, press a key, and BBAutoComplete types the letters to complete the word. If BBAutoComplete guessed wrong, you can keep pressing the key to cycle through other possible completions.
Posted in New Software, Primary Keyboard Users, Users | Tagged free trial, keyboard shortcut, keyboard shortcuts, minimize typing, productivity, save typing, shareware, shortcut keys, speed up typing, text expander, Text Expansion Tools, time saving, type faster, typing quicker |
By Ricky Buchanan on August 14, 2008
Text expansion tools are exactly suited to automatically add the accents, graves, and acutes to words as you type. TextExpander offers a free expansion pack to add a list of accented English words automatically, but you could add them to any text expansion tool yourself.
Posted in Information, New Software, Primary Keyboard Users, Primary Switch Users, Users | Tagged efficiency, keyboard shortcut, keyboard shortcuts, minimize typing, productivity, save typing, shortcut keys, speed up typing, text expander, Text Expansion Tools, time saving, type faster, typing quicker |
By Ricky Buchanan on August 8, 2008
MacWorld has released a great new article which has a bunch of productivity tips for those using Leopard. If your disability impacts your computer use then it will take longer for you to get things done, so making sure you’re saving as much time as possible can make a big difference in how much you can do.
Posted in Information, Neurologically Impaired, Primary Keyboard Users, Primary Mouse Users, Primary Switch Users, Supporters, Users, Vision Impaired, VoiceOver | Tagged efficiency, productivity, time saving, use the computer better, use the computer faster |
By Ricky Buchanan on May 12, 2008
This small application disables internet access for a specified period of time – up to 3 hours. Can be very helpful to those who have trouble staying on task – which at times is all of us!
Posted in Neurologically Impaired, New Software, Other Impairment, Supporters, Users | Tagged ADD, ADHD, attention, block distraction, concentration, distraction, free, productivity |
By Ricky Buchanan on May 9, 2008
“Text Expansion: Wasting Time Trying to Save Time” tells of Dustin’s travails as he trys several tools to improve his typing speed. He recently added an addendum, “Text Expanders Revisited”.
Posted in Information, New Software, Primary Keyboard Users, Users | Tagged free trial, keyboard shortcut, keyboard shortcuts, minimize typing, productivity, save typing, shareware, shortcut keys, speed up typing, text expander, Text Expansion Tools, time saving, type faster, typing quicker |
By Ricky Buchanan on March 25, 2008
VoiceCommander helps you expand Mac OS X built-in speech recognition technology to control any application.
Posted in New Software, Speech to Text, Users | Tagged dictation, efficiency, free trial, minimize typing, productivity, shareware, speech commands, speech recognition, talk to your mac, time saving, use the computer better, use the computer faster, voice commands, voice recognition |
By Ricky Buchanan on February 19, 2008
Today KeyCue 4.1 was released with new themes especially designed for low vision users including a light-on-dark large print theme and a dark-on-light large print theme.
Posted in New Software, Primary Keyboard Users, Users, Vision Impaired | Tagged efficiency, free trial, keyboard enhancement, keyboard shortcuts, large print, memory aid, productivity, shareware, time saving, use the computer better, use the computer faster |
By Ricky Buchanan on November 3, 2007
I already wrote about TextExpander, but here’s a little more information from Lifehacker about what text expansion is and why it can save keyboard users time and energy: Save Time With Text Substitution is a general introduction which mentions both Mac and Windows programs for text substitution. TextExpander Gets Even Better is an in-depth look [...]
Posted in Information, New Software, Primary Keyboard Users, Primary Mouse Users, Users | Tagged free trial, keyboard shortcut, keyboard shortcuts, minimize typing, productivity, save typing, shareware, shortcut keys, speed up typing, text expander, Text Expansion Tools, time saving, type faster, typing quicker |
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