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Archive for March, 2009

Feed My Inbox: Follow Blogs and Forums Easily and Accessibly

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March 6, 2009
Feed My Inbox: Follow Blogs and Forums Easily and Accessibly

“Feed My Inbox is a very simple service that attempts to bridge the gap between feeds (RSS, XML, Atom) and email.” Once you tell Feed My Inbox to keep you up to date on a particular web site or blog, Feed My Inbox will email you each day if there is new content on...
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Me. Moody.

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March 5, 2009
Me. Moody.

I was in an odd humor this afternoon. I took my camera out, which I have not done in a while, to try and capture the mood, so to speak. As usual, it did not work out as planned. My tripod and light stand were in the parking lot at my wife’s work in...
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Harvesting a Crop of Electronic Readers @ NYTimes

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March 5, 2009

Last week’s tech section reviews the state of e-book readers in A Walk Through a Crop of Electronic Readers. THE release this week of Amazon’s Kindle 2 has put electronic book readers in the spotlight. Its proponents celebrate the ability to store thousands of titles on a single lightweight device; the access to newspapers,...
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Slashdot | Bionic Eye Gives Blind Man Sight

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March 5, 2009

Spotted on Slashdot | Bionic Eye Gives Blind Man Sight: “A man who lost his sight 30 years ago says he can now see flashes of light after being fitted with a bionic eye. Ron, 73, had the experimental surgery seven months ago at London’s Moorfield’s eye hospital. He says he can now follow...
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High Contrast Admin Color Scheme for WordPress

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March 5, 2009
High Contrast Admin Color Scheme for WordPress

While I really like WordPress as a blogging platform, its color scheme makes it difficult for me to manage my blog. Generally, use the Accessibar plug-in for Firefox to reset the colors, but manually redoing this each time I access my blogs is more than tiresome. There is a plugin, Easy Admin Color Schemes,...
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Accessing your Kindle on the iPhone

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March 4, 2009
Accessing your Kindle on the iPhone

Spotted today on Slashdot, Amazon Releases iPhone Kindle Software. “The Amazon Kindle 2 just started shipping last week, but Amazon surprised everyone late on March 3rd by placing the Amazon Kindle software for the iPhone in the Apple App Store. With the Whispersync technology you can now keep your Kindle and iPhone ebooks in...
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Accessibility @ Amazon: The Kindle, Audible.com & a Chief Accessibility Officer

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March 4, 2009

An Open Letter to Jeff Bezos at Amazon Does Amazon have a Chief Accessibility Officer? Someone who oversees accessibility issues across the company? It does not seem so. With Amazon at the heart of both online shopping and digital books (audio and e-books), you need a strong corporate position on accessibility. Not only is...
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More on Accessing Twitter from the iPhone: Updated Twitteriffic Review

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March 4, 2009
More on Accessing Twitter from the iPhone: Updated Twitteriffic Review

Earlier today, I reviewed several ways to access Twitter on the iPhone, Accessing Twitter from the iPhone. I compared the TwitterFon and Twitteriffic apps with Twitter’s mobile web site. How accessible is Twitter on the iPhone? Besides receiving tweets as expensive text messages, there are multiple iPhone apps that access your Twitter stream as...
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Accessing Twitter from the iPhone

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March 4, 2009
Accessing Twitter from the iPhone

Twitter calls itself a a microbloogging service. What the heck is a microblog? Basically, it is a mix of blogging, text messaging and emailing. The New York Times’ David Pogue offere his take on Twitter in Twitter? It’s What You Make It. Pogue is right. Twitter is in the eye of the beholder, so...
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Petition to Make the Kindle Fully Accessible

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March 3, 2009

A peeition to Make the Kindle 2 Fully Accessible has been started. We, the undersigned, ask Amazon Technologies, Inc., and its affiliates, to modify the new Kindle 2, and add the ability to have all menu choices spoken with voice prompts, so that all blind and sighted individuals may purchase, and make full use...
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Great Video Tutorials for Lightroom

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March 3, 2009
Great Video Tutorials for Lightroom

The Digital Photography Connection offers weekly video podcast on the use of Adobe Lightroom, which I use to manage and edit photos. Lightroom for Digital Photographers shows you great tips. Welcome to our weekly Lightroom for Digital Photographers Podcast. Did you know that Lightroom for Digital Photographers is one of the top ranked podcast...
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Holy Grail of Accessible Laptops (almost)

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March 2, 2009
Holy Grail of Accessible Laptops (almost)

As seen on Slashdot, New Netbook Offers Detachable Tablet, Engadget is reporting on a new product. The Touch Book from Always Innovating harbors removable tablet, netbook pricepoint. It’s not every day we see an all-new angle on the laptop form factor, much less a netbook with aims at innovation. Perhaps it should come as...
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new face for tim o’brien photos – now on facebook!

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March 2, 2009

tim o’brien photos now has a face on Facebook. Stop by and you can follow me there! You can also follow the blog via Twitter, e-mail, or RSS. You can even use Feed My Inbox to get the RSS feed by email. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me...
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iPhone Full Browser

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March 2, 2009
iPhone Full Browser

On every digital device, some piece of the screen is almost always lost to toolbars. Windows has its Task Bar. Each individual software has its title bar up top, usually following by the main menu bar. The iPhone’s browser has the same issues. As you can see on the right, a portion of the...
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How To Make Your Blog Accessible – Tips from All Access Blogging

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March 1, 2009

All Access Blogging has some great tips on How To Make Your Blog Accessible. No one wakes up in the morning and says “Hmm, how can I make sure that people who are blind can’t read my blog?” However, some of our choices can create barriers for people who want to read what we...
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