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Software Update Makes iTunes Accessible To Blind Users 148

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 28, 2008 @09:32PM from the rockbox-already-has-voice-guidance-note dept.

rickthewizkid writes "Recent updates to the iTunes software allow blind users to access the program without assistance. From the article: 'The new software — which transforms the written information on an iTunes-linked computer screen into speech or Braille — stemmed from an agreement between Apple, the Cupertino, Calif.-based computer company, the National Federation of the Blind and Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley.'" It's not just the actual iTunes app, though; the article notes that this update makes iTunes U useable as well.

Andy Hertzfeld Shares His Thoughts on 25 Years of the Mac 142

Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 27, 2008 @05:16PM from the never-forget-your-first-mac dept.

blackbearnh writes "It may make you feel very, very old, but the Macintosh will be turning 25 in January. As we approach this momentous anniversary, O'Reilly News had a talk with Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original Macintosh designers, about the long and storied history of the Mac. Hertzfeld, who tells the story of the Mac in his book A Revolution in the Valley, shares his thoughts about how the Mac has aged over time, how life might have been different if Steve Jobs had stayed on at Apple, and the differences between working for Apple, and for Google (his current employer.)" Read on below for a bit of what Hertzfeld had to say.

Comment Re:The wiki is wrong - history lesson (Score 1) 510

by aphorian on Wednesday December 07, 2005 @02:23PM (#14203870) Attached to: Ajax Sucks Most of the Time

Not true. You could call XMLHttpRequest an 'invention' of MS, but that's not a technology, it's a method. AJAX is an approach-- a combination of CSS, DTHML, XMLHttpRequest, and Server side technologies. Yes, it relies on the XMLHttpRequest as a major component, but that's all it is, a component. By your logic, all web apps are Netscape technology since they invented the browser. No wait, AJAX is MOSAIC technology. Yea, that's it!

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