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It’s not quite buying a computer off the shelf with a built-in screenreader like Voiceover on the Mac, but GW Micro’s plan to give free, fully functional copies of Window-Eyes to anyone running Microsoft Office 2010 or later is sure as hell a pretty big game changer on the Windows side of making accessibility affordably …
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I’m hardly the person to be telling anyone what sorts of electronics to use, but when muggers are taking your phone, deciding it’s not worth the effort and giving it back, it might be time for an upgrade. Then again, maybe you’ve got the right idea because you get to leave with what you came …
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Well, I hope you’ve enjoyed that quietness I promised a few weeks ago. Judging from our hit counts lately, it would seem you have. Hopefully that’s more you guys having a good holiday than us being the tree that falls in the woods. Anyway, things got a little quieter than expected for a few reasons, …
For Christ’s sake, people! Can we not get it through our heads that texting and moving is a bad idea already? The accident happened about 5 p.m. Monday — when there still was plenty of light. Witnesses at the Hosking farm claimed the driver was texting. Mount Hope police Chief Paul Rickard said the driver, …
Do me a favour. Read this article all about how periods at the ends of sentences in text messages now mean that you’re angry at the person you’re writing to and see if it makes any sense to you, because I understand about 0 of it. Honest to god, in a million years I would …
I heard about the possibility of a computer chip to help people diet, and even though I can see what they’re going for, the part of me that’s studied psychology and watched Sci Fi movies gets a wee smidge freaked out. So this chip is supposed to send a signal, based on your blood fat …
I haven’t planted an inside joke in a post in a while…figured I’d go for two weird ones in the title. I heard about something on CBC radio that I’ve been meaning to write about for a while. The morning guy was talking about this app that parents can install on their kids’ phones that …
Normally when you think of taking something simple and making it orders of magnitude more complicated than it needs to be, you think government program. But solving problems with problems equal to or greater than the originals isn’t only the domain of bureaucrats. It’s also, as you’re about to see, the domain of 10 not …
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You guys aren’t going to believe this. Yet another person bought an iPad from some dude at a gas station. And wonder of wonders, it wasn’t really an iPad. I know, it’s shocking! This $200 trunk bargain turned out to be a mirror dressed up like an iPad. Victim (I hate using that word in …
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Yesterday we learned of Bell’s plan to track the crap out of many of the services you pay them a king’s ransom for and then sell your usage patterns to whomever it chooses. Since then, a few things have happened. Several people have complained, which is nice. I don’t know how many, but it was …