Back from Italy – photos at gallery.mac.com/asheridan. Wireless hotspots in Italy (not), internet access (not), Keep off the Grass video, Xee revisited from wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/xee.html. How’d we protect our cars during the trip? hdabob.com to the rescue, Bart’s review of iLife ’08, optimize your site for the iPhone from furbo.org. WEbGhost, FontLibrary and MacFreelance from macxware.com […]
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comin’ into the home stretch
it’s been an almost internet-free vacation, even though i booked every accommodation WITH internet. I know, people tell me I should chill and enjoy life, but they don’t get that I enjoy myself on my computer! I wish I’d had more time to drop a line here once in a while, but what are you […]
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You’re not going to believe this – the villa we rented FIVE MONTHS in advance, including paying a 400 Euro deposit wasn’t actually booked in our name when we got there! the good news is that the new villa is wonderful, BUT it has no internet access! I’m at my daughter’s apartment in Siena right […]
Continue readingMore TagShow #107 Yahoo! Petition, ViddyUp!, Customize Excel Menu, Picturesque, GrandCentral
Allison leaves on vacation but you can hear her on the Mac Roundtable at macroundtable.com, a weak iPhone whine, please sign the Yahoo! accessibility petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/yabvipma/, Honda Bob’s Mobile Service at hdabob.com, update on Inquisitor, how to add a button to your menu bar in Excel, and an update on my father-in-law the switcher. […]
Continue readingMore TagThis is what a CAPTCHA sounds like to a visually impaired person
In show #106 I asked if you’d consider requesting audio CAPTCHAs whenever you run across visual only CAPTCHAs, even it if doesn’t affect you personally. Let’s help our visually impaired friends out here! Below is a movie pointed out to me by Leo that vividly explains what a visually impaired person encounters with a visual […]
Continue readingMore Tag#106 Audio CAPTCHAs, Box, Disk Inventory X, Inquisitor and Skitch
iPhone whining about batteries and not being able to send .mac mail over EDGE, Sam Caldwell on Microsoft vs. Apple service (hint, Microsoft wins), Sam’s podcast is at http://web.mac.com/inetsynch/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html. Idea for encouraging audio CAPTCHAs on websites for accessibility, box.net for storing and sharing files, Disk Inventory X from derlien.com for recovering wasted disk space, Zoho […]
Continue readingMore Tag#105 iSpeak Italian, iPhoneDrive, HP Panorama Stitcher
EVDO V640 vs V740 from evdoinfo.com, GarageBand selecting tracks to move, more info on Audio Hijack Pro, gruesome treatment of an iPhone from willitblend.com, language phrasebook for your iPod from iSpeak Italian through bookstores, easier way to move media to the MicroSD card on the Blackberry and comparison with the PSP for media. How the […]
Continue readingMore TagShow #104 EVDO ExpressCard speed test, Blackberry micro SD card for media, Audio Hijack Pro vs WireTap Pro
QA Director Steve finds a glaring error, accessibility problems/solutions with color vision issues including Shapeshifter from unsanity.com and Songbird from songbirdnest.com. hdabob.com. Two hardware reviews – speed tests with the Verizon EVDO ExpressCard 34 for mobile internet access, available at mobilecityonline.com, and using using speakeasy.net for the speed test. that’s followed by a test of […]
Continue readingMore TagShow #103 Switcher, Draggable Google Maps, Speed up slow down, Go dockless
More Skype vs. iChat to Italy, helping my father-in-law switch to the Mac, draggable Google maps at google.com/maps, show advice – should I speed up or slow down? Anonymous listener sends in Leopard’s Alex reading my show notes, Bob helps me go dockless. Bart comes back with a PhpWebGallery rebuttal review – see his gallery […]
Continue readingMore TagShow #102 Skype iChat to Italy, assistive voices, Screenshot Captor, SMARTReporter, ByteController
Skype vs. iChat from the US to Italy, Assistive Voices demonstration from Susan Gerhart (author of @Podder from apodder.org), TextAloud from Ken and his computers, Safari 3 fails on OSX and Windows, Screenshot Captor for Windows from donationcoder.com. SMARTReporter and ByteController reviews from Bart. [tags]Apple, Safari, @Podder, Screenshot Captor, SMARTReporter, ByteController[/tags] Listen to the Podcast […]
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