Anyone using an iPhone or a Blackberry? I’ve narrowed the cell phone decision to these two. My thoughts: iPhone: Advantages * Blends iPod, PDA, and phone in one nice package. * Has a nice PDA interface. * Tracks teen. * Has 3G. iPhone: Disadvantages * On screen keyboard not as fast as BB keyboard. * …
August 2008 archive
Getting Ready for Back to School
Paula Rosenthal offers advice on how to help a child get ready for school. I asked my mom what she did when I was in elementary school. She said that after the first one or two years, she asked the teacher for five minutes of her time. Mom would explain that I needed to sit …
ASL by Cell Phone
Researchers at the University of Washington developed software allowing users to talk to each other using ASL over cell phones. The researchers have succeeded in making project a reality. They’ve received a grant from National Science Foundation that will allow them to conduct a 20-person field project in Seattle next year according to ScienceDaily. Many …
Fire Alarms for the Deaf
In my first year in college, I walked in my dorm room to see building maintenance working on the ceiling. It turned out the university sent them to install a visual fire alarm. That impressed me because I didn’t request it and I never had one while growing up. Whenever the fire alarm went off, …
iTunes 7.7 Rules!
Previously, I posted the iPod Touch Rules! — By accident, I found a similar feature in the iPod Nano (second generation). It didn’t have this before upgrading iTunes. I pushed the button a couple of times while playing a song and by the fourth push — I see lyrics! To scroll down, just slide the …
Dating Deaf People
I’m lucky I found someone early in my life so I didn’t have to deal with the stressful dating game for long. Deaf people — at least in my case — who live outside of the Deaf culture feel insecure when it comes to the dating game. Although it’s wrong to dislike someone just because …
Closed-Captioning Transcript Preferences
I received an email from a web designer who designs web sites and tries to make them more usable and accessible. He wants to add closed-captioning to all sites with video and also include a transcript. He wants to know what is the best file format for the transcripts: rich text format (.rtf), Adobe Acrobat …