Posts Tagged ‘ app ’

Shortcovers, the alleged Kindle killer, went live this morning. So what is shorcovers? It is a e-book service built around mobile devices. The idea is to read books on your iPhone, your Blackberry or whichever smart phone you might use. Unlike other great e-book software, like Stanza, shortcovers is paired with a commercial bookstore...
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Slashdot reports that We’re Just Not That Into You, iPhone Apps . maximus1 writes “A new report compiled by iPhone analytics firm Pinch Media finds the majority of people stop using apps the day after they download them, and only 1 percent develop a long-term relationship with any given app. Instead, most tend to...
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Fliq Notes is of my favorite iPhone apps. Not only is it versatile and useful, but it’s also quite colorful. This app is designed allow you to, organize and share your notes. in other colorful and intuitive interface which is remarkably accessible. Fliq Notes is part of a suite of applications, both for your...
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I crossed an iPhone milestone today and paid for my first iPhone app today. Up until now, I have used only free apps in addition to the default ones. But I encountered an issue that could be solved easily only by a $1.99 app. So I bought it. And I did it through iTunes...
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My iPhone Access project has a new front door. With this blog, it is not easy to collect related posts onto one page (at least not that I have found). I am in the middle of an ongoing series of posts on the accessibility of the iPhone platform, but there is no one decent...
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Today’s NYT Tech Talk podcast from the New York Times features two accessibility pieces. The first accessibility segment featues Audiopoint Voice Terminal Service Brian Lichorowic, the chief executive of Audiopoint, explains how the company’s Voice Terminal Service works to bring the Internet to visually impaired users by phone. Bettina Edelstein also offers a round-up...
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Next in my series of iPhone app accessibility reviews is EasyWriter. The main feature of EasyWriter, as its programmers put it, is: EasyWriter makes it easy to write emails using a bigger keyboard in landscape mode. Easywriter has one other accessibility feature that the default Mail program lacks; multitouch zoom. Between landscape mode and...
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Shortcovers will be an app for mobile devices, including the iPhone, that turns your device into an e-book reader. The release date is imminent (allegedly). I still am unconvinced that mobile device screens are big enough for sustained reading. More details when the app arrives. If you find this post useful or interesting, please...
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Prompted by the , I have been writing a series of posts on making the iPhone easier to use visually; and . What I call intermediate accessibility, what the NY Times calls ease of use in For the Advanced in Age, Easy-to-Use Technology, is accessibility for those with some functional sight. Instead of focusing...
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