Archive for the ‘My life-tools’ Category
Monday, December 15th, 2008
Wired recently ran an article about Microsoft CEO Ray Ozzie.
One incident in particular introduced Ozzie to the magic that comes when people connect via computer. He had taken a part-time assignment helping a professor finish writing some courseware. The prof lived on the other side of town, so Ozzie collaborated ...
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
'Assistive Technology - creating value through participation’ conference by Australian Rehabilitation & Assistive Technology Association (ARATA) at the convention centre in Adelaide, South Australia.
I was encouraged by Hugh Stewart, from the School of Occpational Therapy at UNISA to present a paper on what I've been doing online and around social ...
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
I notice Scoble's testing Nikon's S51C camera that has wifi built in.
This has prompted me to write what's been on my mind about the usefulness of cameras having wireless connectivity - of any kind.
I use a Dopod 810 PDA. It's my work and personal diary, phone, mobile web browser and ...
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
The group of Occupational Therapy students at UNISA I spoke with yesterday about how to use tools to do life with disability. The course title is "Enabling Occupation" Occupation being any activity in this case. I like to simplify that to mean "Helping to do stuff". Which ain't a bad ...
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
Photo by agg.alex
Operating Mobile phones, PDAs and Bluetooth with a disability.
I often get questions about different devices and things via email. I will as much as possible answer these publicly here so we all can benefit from each other's experiences via comments etc. So if ever you write email to ...
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Thursday, November 23rd, 2006
November 23, 2006
LiveWire
"Quadriplegic, podcaster and blogger Dave Wallace tells Fran Molloy how he uses technology."
Sydney Morning Herald
I woke early today and wandering around my feed reader found my interview article has appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald online site overnight. Will wander physically down street later and see if it ...
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Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
Just like last year, I gave my lecture about my life with disability and the things I've learnt along the way to a class of OT students at UNISA a couple weeks ago.
Another big group and two hours trying talk loud as I could meant I was buggered aftewards
but ...
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
This post started as an email reply to Frank Arrigo. Frank was kindly answering another of my questions about Bluetooth and PDA interoperability. My response evolved however into something that really needs to be more widely heard, hence I'm posting it here.
> Unfortunately the news isn't good
>
> I haven't ...
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Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Over at Frank Arrigo's blog he has the low down on a kludge to get VoiceCommand to take commands straight from a BT headset.
frankarr - an aussie microsoft blogger : K-JAM, Microsoft Voice Command, Bluetooth earpiece and a registry hack
Longtime readers will know the ongoing battle I've had with this ...
Posted in Computing, Devices, Listening, My life-tools, Talking | 2 Comments »
Thursday, December 8th, 2005
The Lifehacker was reporting on what tools she uses everyday.
In addition to using Yahoo! Calendar as detailed previously, I carry around a 70 sheet spiral notebook with a cardboard cover which cost about a buck at the local drugstore. In it I write down my daily to-do’s and project ...
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Friday, November 25th, 2005
After a lecture I gave to some Year 2 Occupational Therapy Students at UNISA back in September which I wrote about on my personal blog, I was invited back today to give the speel to some Post Grad Students.
This group was smaller compared to the 60 odd last time. I ...
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
There's a great extension for the equally great open source email program, Thunderbird called QuickText.
This bit of software is installed in Thunderbird and acts like a macro typing device that can input long pieces of text with few keystrokes or the click of a button. QuickText is especially for ...
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