Entries from June 2008

June 26, 2008

Opening the Web to the Visually Impaired

New software, called WebAnywhere, lets blind and visually impaired people surf the web on the go. The free service, developed at the University of Washington, will free an estimated 10 million people nationwide  from special screen-reading software on their own computers. It  turns screen-reading into an Internet service that reads aloud [...]

June 25, 2008

Create and Share Presentations Online

280 Slides promises to help you “create beautiful presentations, access them from anywhere and share them with the world.” That may be a larger audience than you need, but 280 Slides may still be helpful if you want to make a presentation at a bi-coastal conference or even male a presentation across town.
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June 10, 2008

Useful Links to Stuff You Need

Ever have an important letter to mail–and no clue where to find the nearest blue USPS mailbox? Or how about the frustration of trying to log onto a website over and over, only to get one error message after another? After a while, you start to wonder: is it just me or is the whole [...]