It’s almost here! an accessible camera for the blind. And it comes in a product that lots of people use — the iPhone. With the iPhone’s built-in screenreader technology, VoiceOver, and a little app, the talking camera is here! Here’s the story. The iPhone camera is accessible and it’s quite a good one — has 8 megapixels on the [...]
From the NBR. I find this stuff very interesting. BEST OF THE WEEK: Slingshot opens access to Netflix, other geo-blocked services: a legal opinion | The National Business Review
A pic from California 2013, January
Last year we began work on remodelling our house — what a mission! All the lino was replaced by tiles which my mother says are like coffee — smells great but tastes awful. She said she should never have made them white. The tiling took some 6 weeks — maybe longer — and now some of them are broken. [Well just a couple]. [...]
This is something I found on the blind film critic’s tumblr. Enjoy… 10 famous blind people including modern ones
Hello to all on tumblr-That’s a sign I really have nothing to say when I start with that. For isn’t a blog s’posed to be a column? A column doesn’t have hellos in it, does it? I am rather busy teaching piano and . training to get better. Interestingly this month, June 2014, is audio Month [...]
A stormy day
I have some great news!I have 5 piano students and all are progressing okay. This month of June is AudioMo over on audio boo — a bunch of people posting audioblogs for month every day. I decided to do it this year and am in a day late. In other news Di Brown, my friend from up [...]
Courtesy of Time Magazine, the top 10 books of all time. I have attempted to read most of this stuff but not all.
[vimeo 95402266 w=500 h=375] Lovers Knot [From the musical Lovers] from Mara Kelland on Vimeo. I sing the song by Jay Ansill and Anne Hills. Shot very primitively on a cell phone a few years ago. (Source: http://vimeo.com/)