Many of you will have seen my ramblings on Twitter about IOS 8 and OS 10 Yosemite. There are many bugs but there are also many highlights. And I did BUY IT — the KNFBReader. It works as advertised which is brilliant. I do love it so much. It is so useful. Also my struggles with GarageBand [...]
Okay today I got a phone call from a friend who asked how to use a bluetooth keyboard in IOS 8. It’s relatively easy but takes some getting used to. So I am writing this post on how to do it just so folks don’t keep asking me as someone told me and now I [...]
Just had to blog and say hhow cool I think Braille screen input is in IOS 8. It’s a very promising start. The editing functionality some braille users have come to love in mBraille will come slowly. One glitch with the built-in braille is that it doesn’t work with all the apps especially blogsy. Blogsy [...]
So it’s another update to IOS for another year. Some of it’s cool and some of it’s crappy. I like some of the cool ideas and features [“Hey Siri” anybody?] but there a lot of bugs. I updated knowing about the bugs. When I updated the phone started speaking different languages as it always does [...]
Well, it’s been a long time since I last posted here. I have 162 posts here. How great [like you all care.] Nonetheless, my tumblr turned 3 years old today [see below this post for that]. I am very busy doing stuff. Today is Saturday. It’s the dog’s favourite day because he gets to stay [...]
[vimeo 104598759 w=500 h=666] Garden at evening from Mara Kelland on Vimeo. Testing time lapse photography (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
Okay- now I’ve heard it all! The word of the year is ….No, we’ll come back to that…But the Oxford Dictionary is adding some strange stuff these days. One thing they added is HOTMESS. Don’t even know how to spell it and don’t even know what it is. Another is fob but that one’s only in [...]
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Well, the time has almost come… The time when the PC will be almost not required. One of the most exciting developments in recent months is the KNFB Reader. I used to have it on my computer when it was called Kurzweil 1000. K1000 was, still is, great for with it the blind can read [...]