Archive for November, 2008
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008
What a great response to the first Lifekludger Project fundraising. I'm glad tosay thegoal was reached and Fundable has paid the pledged amount (less it's 10% fee, of course)
I've started a spreadsheet where the funds for project will be tracked and it's viewable from theLifekludger blog (or right here).
The item ...
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Tuesday, November 25th, 2008
ASUS are the smart cookies. They virtually started the consumer Netbook phenomenon with the affordable, linux based, eee pc. Now they release a stylish, all-in-one device with a Touch screen that's based on XP obviously targeted at friendly family use at, hopefully, a competitive price - the ASUS Top.
The screen ...
Posted in Devices, Lifekludger Links, Touch | No Comments »
Friday, November 21st, 2008
Lifekludger has the desire to connect people together around a project to solve a problem. For the long term it's desirable that the number projects are scalable as well as the funding for them. Coming from that thinking I'm running a kind of Pilot project to see if there's a way that projects can be ...
Posted in Devices, Givers | 1 Comment »
Sunday, November 16th, 2008
"Accessibility is about accommodating characteristics a person cannot change by providing options" -- Joe Clarke, 2001
* An outline
* some ideas in olpc first look was promising
* accessibility and usability are hardware issues too
* accessibility should venture out of the online space into hardware design
Last year I had a first look ...
Posted in Access, Computing, Devices, Input, Touch | 1 Comment »
