Of all the sites on the internet, this is one.
I don’t know how many of you have gotten or will get this, but I want to mention it because I hate to see people taken advantage of. Lately Rogers has been texting us, offering up a new iPhone 8 for $0. My current 6S is showing it’s age and sooner or later Carin is …
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And now, I give you the Floppotron playing Africa by Toto. Not some of its best work, but it’s still better than this garbage.
Even though this isn’t available in Canada yet, I’m still posting about it because it’s cool. Microsoft has released another interesting app to help out us blind kids, this one is for navigation. It’s called Microsoft Soundscape. It’s kind of like Blindsquare only in a videogame-like format. As you’re walking, you will hear where points …
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For all the good technology does us, it sure can be a pain in the ass nowadays. It’s often expensive, three quarters of it doesn’t work with any of the stuff you already have out of the box and isn’t going to unless you have degrees in electronics, computer science and sorcery, it all needs …
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If you’re a smartphone having blind person and you haven’t used Be My Eyes, I don’t think it would be a stretch to say that your life is at least a little more frustrating than it needs to be. And if you’re a smartphone having sighted person and you’ve spent any time at all volunteering …
You might recall Apple catching some hell at the end of last year when it came out that the company was intentionally slowing down some older iPhones in order to protect their batteries. Since then, there have been lawsuits, apologies and a promise that come the next update to iOS 11, you can take the …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BVrLYY4jZg Normally I would start off a post like this by wondering aloud just who is the target market for our friend FoldiMate here, but you know what? Not today. There’s no need. I know exactly who this is aimed at. Idiots. Idiots with way too much money and nothing to do with it. Seriously, …
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A little while ago, I wondered if my grandma could benefit from one of those Amazon Echo things. I thought maybe it could call people since she says she can’t see the numbers on the phone and doesn’t know how to do it another way, check the weather, read the news, play music, etc. But …
I’m sure at some point, whether it held 3 or 5 or 25, almost all of us owned some sort of CD changer. And when I was young I remember my mom having a record player that could hold something like three or 4 at a time. But until today, I don’t remember ever having …
I don’t seem to have much to say today, so how about we watch the Floppotron try its hand at Michael Jackson’s “Black or White” while I go back to doing stuff that most of you will never notice unless I don’t do it one day? That was fun.