Of all the sites on the internet, this is one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHHdM4dkKkc Just so you know, your phone is about to start randomly scaring the shit out of you. But this is a good thing. Canada is finally getting a smartphone compatible emergency alert system. Canada’s wireless providers are preparing for an update to the National Public Alerting System that will force smartphones to sound an …
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It’s been a while since Carin or I has mentioned Dictation Bridge, which in case you’ve forgotten is a free, open source piece of software designed to help those who need it much more easily use speech recognition in conjunction with a screen reader. The project hit its funding goal in 2016, and after nearly …
Of course the Floppotron plays Jump. Why do you ask? It’s got some pretty snazzy vocal inflection and guitar licks, too.
If I knew this, somewhere along the way I forgot that I did. From the CBC Archives comes this broadcast from February 19th, 1947 demonstrating some newfangled mobile phone technology that was set to hit the market in June of that year. Like I said, I had no idea this stuff went back quite that …
After reading a story about people’s Amazon Echo devices laughing at them at random, I’m really glad I didn’t get one for my grandma. That would have scared the heck out of her, understandably! Seriously. Sometimes out of the blue, or in the middle of a conversation that has not included the word “Alexa”, or …
I don’t know how many of you have gotten or will get this, but I want to mention it because I hate to see people taken advantage of. Lately Rogers has been texting us, offering up a new iPhone 8 for $0. My current 6S is showing it’s age and sooner or later Carin is …
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And now, I give you the Floppotron playing Africa by Toto. Not some of its best work, but it’s still better than this garbage.
Even though this isn’t available in Canada yet, I’m still posting about it because it’s cool. Microsoft has released another interesting app to help out us blind kids, this one is for navigation. It’s called Microsoft Soundscape. It’s kind of like Blindsquare only in a videogame-like format. As you’re walking, you will hear where points …
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For all the good technology does us, it sure can be a pain in the ass nowadays. It’s often expensive, three quarters of it doesn’t work with any of the stuff you already have out of the box and isn’t going to unless you have degrees in electronics, computer science and sorcery, it all needs …
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If you’re a smartphone having blind person and you haven’t used Be My Eyes, I don’t think it would be a stretch to say that your life is at least a little more frustrating than it needs to be. And if you’re a smartphone having sighted person and you’ve spent any time at all volunteering …