Apparently, some one, as usual, has beaten me to it.  Not long ago, I posted about talking lamp posts. These talking lamp posts would give nearby visitors an audio description of their location. I thought it would be a better idea to build that capability into GPS-capable devices. They can build the ‘guides’ into...
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A while back I posted a tip about adding IDs to the iPhone wallpaper. This tip involved adding your contact info manually using an image editing software on your desktop. Too tricky for most, including me. Fortunately, it turns out that ther is an easier way to do this. There are to similar apps,...
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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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Wikipanion is a feature-rich access point Wikipedia on the iPhone. it has an intelligent, well thought out interface. Besides support for multiple languages, Wikipanion has smart search and bookmarking features. you can also e-mail your search results to disbelieving friends. Wikipanion is also quite accessible. Not only is the font size adjustable, but you...
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I have officially arrived! On Saturday, I received my first official press pass. It felt so cool. The pass let me into the restricted area around the field. Saturday night was the state championship game for mean’s high school lacrosse. The Chapel Hill Tigers lost 19-13 to the Charlotte Providence Panthers. As little as...
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I have another video to encourage you to support me and the fight against blindness by helping me at this year’s VisionWalk. VisionWalk is the fundraiser for the Foundation Fighting Blindness, which, as its name suggests, funds research to cure retinal degenerative diseases (like mine). First watch a video from VisionWalk supporter, Nancy Kerrigan....
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A website, arc90 lab, offers an amazing tool, Readability, that makes web sites easier to use. Officially an experiment, Readability is a bookmarklet that strips away clutter and reformats the main content of a website so that it is easy to read. Readability is a browser bookmarklet (sort of like a bookmark on steroids)....
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The Chapel Hill News published this article, Putter in hand, angling for an A, on Sunday with two of my photos. The event was the annual Golf-O-Rama put on by the honors geometry classes at Chapel Hill High School to raise money for the Ronald McDonald House. Weeks before the first putt, students write...
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There are some good organizations and bloggers on Twitter. I have an abridged, disorganized and incomplete list. I am biased towards vision related ones, but I think I have most of the good feeds here: fightblindness / F Fighting Blindness blindperspectiv / Alena Roberts BlindPhotogs / Blind Photographers lionsclubsorg / Lions Clubs visionaware /...
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TIME magazine is highlighting a new exhibit at the University of California, Riverside with a photo essay, Photos by Blind Photographers. TIME describes the exhibit: “A spectacular new exhibit at the University of California, Riverside raises extraordinary questions about the nature of sight.” Photographers include Bruce Hall, who is a fellow member of the...
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I have some more videos to encourage you to support me and the fight against blindness by helping me at this year’s VisionWalk.  VisionWalk is the fundraiser for the Foundation Fighting Blindness, which, as its name suggests, funds research to cure retinal degenerative diseases (like mine). First watch a video about the results of...
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The NYTimes ran an article, The Work of Fashion Photographer Richard Avedon, with an accompanying audio slideshow today that is worth checking out. The article is inspired byt a retrospective of Avedon’s photography at the International Center of Photography. That blueprint is, broadly, the subject of a retrospective at the International Center of Photography,...
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Some flotsam from the TwitterSea:via GrayBit v2.0 is a Grayscale Conversion Contrast Accessibility Tool. Basically, it converts a web page to grayscale so you can see how much (or little) contrast is in the page design. Contrast is important for readability, a key accessibility for the visually impaired. What’s GrayBit Do? GrayBit is an...
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I spent a good chunk of Friday evening covering a local high school lacrosse playoff game. The East Chapel Hill Wildacts beat Mt. Tabor in the end 9-7 as you can read in the accompanying arricle to these two images: Wildcats live to fight another day. The shoot presented some serious technical and personal...
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Ken Rockwell has a great tip on How to add your ID to your iPhone and iPod Touch. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could have your contact information pop up every time your iPhone or iPod touch turns on, so that if you lost it, you would get it back? The tip is...
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