A bit too futuristic, but it's a great concept!

Last night, while browsing threw the internet, I came acrosse this very intresting article. Apparently, microsoft is paring with I don't know how many other companies, including "UK guide dogs for the blind", to creat this really innovative peace of technology, which would allowed blind people to get an incredible amount of information about our environment, as well as many other cool things. As UK guide dogs puts it,

We believe that technology has huge potential to transform the ways in which blind and partially sighted people get out and about. That is why we've worked with Microsoft to develop a concept of how things might look soon, if we all pull together to make our vision a reality.

And here's a vidio demonstrating what this new device would do. Personally, I find its a bit too obtimistic, and even though it would be great if this thing existed, I see to main problems.
1, How much would it cost? I mean, if a screen reader costs like a thousand dollars, I don't want to imagine how much would an incredibly complicated device as this one cost.?
2 Some of the ideas are incredibly difficult to achieve, like when it tells the guy the exact location of his train compartment and seat...
I really hope this thing will eventualy exist, and I hope it will be afortable enough to buy it.

Accesible from the beginning

After a really relaxing, fun, an incredible time at the beach, I come here to post about this wonderful chapter from the Steve Jobs' biography.
This chapter recounts mac's first presentation in 1984, I don't use a mac, but I use an I pod touch, an what impressed me, is, apple products were accesible from the beginning.
Here's mac's first presentation, in 1984.
He opened the mitting, with a poem from the secund vers of Bob Dylan's song, the times they are a changin
"Come writers and critics,
Who prophesize with your pen,
And keep your eyes wide,
The chance won't come again,
And don't speak too soon,
For the wheel's still in spin,
And there's no tellin' who,
That it's namin'."

He ended with
"For the loser now,
Will be later to win,
For the times they are a-changin'."


Then, Steve jobs gave a speatch critizising IBM computers, then he talked about how apple, would dominate the whole wourld, the whole imformation age, the whole computer inndustry.
It went something like this:
“It is now 1984,” he continued, “It appears that IBM wants it all. Apple is perceived to be the only hope to offer IBM a run for its money. Dealers, initially welcoming IBM with open arms, now fear an IBM controlled future….”

“IBM wants it all,” “Will Big Blue dominate the entire computer industry? The entire information age?”

“Was George Orwell right?”

The audience where beside themselves, then, the auditorioum went black, an the 60 secund advertisement began.

Its a really visual comercial, but there it is, I'll post the description written in the book.
I'll post the description another time:)

After that, Steve Jobs showed a demo demonstrating mac's features. First, the word Macintosh appeared across the screen, an below it, Steve's favorite words.
"Insanely great"

Then, the screen displayed charts, documents, different fonds, drawing programmes, an immage of Steve Jobs with a thought bubble containing a Macintosh.
An when the demo ended, he said this memorable words.
"We've done allot of talking about macintosh recently, but today, for the first time ever, I’d like to let the Macintosh speak for itself."

An indeed, the mac spoke.

Its totally amazing.
Thankyou Steve Jobs,.
I wish I knew just a bit about him. When he lived.

An air refill?, two dollars please

If you were looking for a really environmental-friendly product, you've come to the right place!!

This car seems so friggin cool!
Tata motors have come up with this environmental-friendly car that runs on compressed air.
Apparently, the air propels the motors, cylinders etc, etc.
Its maximum speed will be around 105 km per h (not that bad).
They hope to have it on the market in India this year.
This car uses no petrol, an it can run up to 300 KM before running out of, uh, air.
There will be like gas stations, that will be equipped with special tanks of compressed air. It will take around 2-4 minutes to regas for around dollar two.
The car is a 6-sit van an apparently, it will be around dollar 13 thousand.
Its a great idea, an it will really, really help the planet.
Maybe you think, 300 km?, well, if they're enough air stations spread around a city, I'm sure it will work.
You may also consider the possibility of the tank exploding when there's an accident, but really, isn't it the same with gas tanks?
Hmm, I wonder, how will the government an the oil sellers react?
I think it will be a huge loss for them, although, if air is a free resource, an a refill will be dollar 2, maybe they will gane some profit.
Hope this car is really real, an that it really comes out this year, what a huge help for the environment.
Oh, yeah, I also hope it makes some noise, if not, that would be a disaster!

Using twittemonger

Hi everybody, its been a nice month so far, hope everybody has kepped his /her’s new year resolutions, at least, I think I have lol.
I discovered another awesome twitter client, its called twittemonger.
It’s the same as qwitter, but they’re not affiliated, you know, qwitter has stopped developing the client.
I was having a little trouble with qwitter, I wasn’t able to go from buffer to buffer, to read what I typed while I did it, or to watch new mentions.
So, if you’re thinking about using twittemonger, I hilly recommend it.
Here I give you a link.
http://twitmonger.shaned.net
Hope everybody is having a good time.

Merry christmas!

Hi everybody, hope you’re enjoying this hollydays.
I am, I’ll spend Christmas with dad’s side of the family, witch is really cool.
This year I gave my self an early Christmas present, an incredible Ipod touch!!
Its accessible right out of the box, I just had to turn voice over on by going to settings, general an accessibility.
I just drag my finger across the screen, an voice over reads everything my finger touches without opening anything.
To open the selected item, I just double tap it.
There are other gestures for example to scroll, drag or flick.
I just wanted to brag about this amazing thing, an to say thankyou, apple fokes.
I wish everyone a merry Christmas an a happy new year.
Hope you have a really good time with your family an or loved ones.

Doing a screanshot?

Hi:
Today was a pretty intresting day.
First, I had to put legs to a couch wheard.
That was really exhausting…
Aftter that, I Had lunch, an just had a normal afternoon.
A few ours ago, I was trying to take a screenshot, upload it to photobucket, create a direct link an post that on a forum.
Let me tell ya, that was no fun.
First was taking the screenshot, ok, did that, then I copied it to paint… that’s where trouble starts (how am I suppose to know if the picture has been pasted correctly, if it’s the hole screan, or worst of all, how am I suppose to know if the picture has pasted at all?
After I solved that, it was the damme photo bucket.
First I signed up, ok, no problem, after that I uploaded the picture that was pretty hard, but finally I managed it.
An then… I was suppose to click the picture, then a drop down menue was suppose to appear, but how the hell was I going to click the picture??
I still can’t manage that part, think I’ll try tomorrow, I’m super tired right now.
Night everyone
Ps:
11/11/11?
Cool.

J-tunes?

I just came acrosse a program called j-tunes.

I checked it out an it simse really useful.

You can organize your music, you can easily import music to your ipod etc etc.

I was wondering is it worthy?

How much does it cust to get it?

Do you use it?

I phone!

Hi people!!

How are you doing?

Well this post is about the i phone.

First when I discovered I phones existed I thought:

Oh my! How are blind people suppose to use this thing??

Even if it spoked, the I phon is got a tactile screan how are blind people suppose to aime at the icons?

An then I thought:

If it’s a tactile screan an blind people moved their finger around it, every single thing on it will open.

Arg they really annoyed me cause I wanted an I phone!

A few days I came acrosse this link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4QBqpU1jj8&feature=uploademail

Wow! This is wonderfull!

You know all apple products are axcesible for blind people.

The I phone is got a program called voice over.

With this program the phone speaks an the screan turns really not sensible.

So you move your finger around it an voice over tells you what’s under your finger, but the icon does not open.

You have to doble tap it to actually open it.

Hahahaha! This really looks like a commercial!

So, like in commercials:

For more imformation go to the link above.

Hope you enjoyed it!