ReadWrite Gold is potentially a very powerful collection of tools to assist people with language difficulties to improve their read and writing while on the go, working with apps like Microsoft Word. However, the software is badly let down by its primitive 1990s style interface, which is very off-putting and makes the app feel like … Continue reading Review:ReadWrite Gold for Mac
Review: iReadWrite
iReadWrite is a neat word processor app for the iPad with powerful speech and word prediction capabilities. For people with speech or language difficulties, these makes a simple communication aid that is quick and simple to use. The word prediction side bar offers a seamlessly unlimited list of words that can be swiped onto the … Continue reading Review: iReadWrite
Everyone Should Have a Voice
The personal communication between each other is a central part of what makes us human but for some disabled people who have no speech, speech impairments or other speech or language difficulties, the ability and indeed right to communicate with others can be significantly compromised and this is where the need for argumentative and alternative … Continue reading Everyone Should Have a Voice
Why Can’t Disabled People Be Positive?
My all-time favourite song and my personal theme tune is Proud by Heather Small, because it sums up how I feel about my life and who I am as someone with cerebral palsy. I believe the media along with the disability charities and many activists has polarised the lives of disabled people, where we are either heroic … Continue reading Why Can’t Disabled People Be Positive?
Mapping my notes
Regular readers may know I am a big fan of Evernote and that it is a core application in how I manage my work and my life as I have after 30000 notes including 17000 organisations and 3000 places which I am continually sorted and adding to. Apart of this is adding locational data to … Continue reading Mapping my notes
A paperless society
When the PC was first invented, everyone said it would be the end of paper but the reality was we ended up using far more paper. But now, with tablets, wi-fi and other technologies, I think we are finally seeing the end of paper in a big way and I like it. I never been … Continue reading A paperless society
Living in the clouds
Technology is always improving at a tremendous rate and one recent feature I find extremely used is cloud computing with services like Dropbox, Google Drive and Skydrive. These services enables me to access all my files on all my devices whether they be on my PC, mac, iPad or android mobile phone with almost instant … Continue reading Living in the clouds
Discovering my past
One thing I like about the internet and how it has grown is about I can use it to discover my past. I am not interested about my family history, as I am not interested in my family. But I am interested in my personal past and finding out more about things from my childhood … Continue reading Discovering my past
The lure of tablets
By tablets I am not referring to the medical kind but rather the technological kind. Whether it is a iPad, Kindle, Android or new Microsoft Surface, tablets have quickly entered into the every day lives of so many people, already potentially replacing the home computer as the main way people access the internet and other … Continue reading The lure of tablets
Bloggers are arrogant
A found it very interesting when a fellow blogger called my arrogant and this is what the point of being a blogger, any blogger? When I mean is a blog is a public statement of how one individual sees a specific issue with the hope they may not be the only person in the world … Continue reading Bloggers are arrogant
