There is not a good out-of-the-box webpad yet, but I have the next best thing running at my home. It's called an ePod. It runs Windows CE 2.11, has a 640x480 touch screen, 16MB, 2USB ports, infrared, serial, CompactFlash, and a PC Card slot. The company that makes them ran out of business, but they are very hackable. I put a 802.11b card in it and hooked it up to my home network. The performance was a little sluggish, so I set up Windows Terminal Server and loaded up the terminal client. Now the thing is like having a wirelss monitor for my Win2k server. Since the thing was on clearance, I got it for only $200. It's awesome.
I can definitely see why the Audrey will be discontinued. It was an interesting concept, but it was expensive and didn't do much. Once somebody can come out with an affordable tablet device with wireless networking built in, these things will become more popular. Until then, I'll be enjoying my ePod.
I think it's fantastic that Darren Aronofsky will be directing, but the best news about this is he will help write the screenplay. My major complaint about the Batman series has been the amazingly thin scripts and weak dialog. If the story improves for Batman: YO, then they will deserve the financial success the Batman movies get.
My initial reaction to this post was the same as what has been posted so far. Then I looked at the Sydney site. Alt text is already in place everywhere I looked.
I think the issue is more complicated than just sticking a bunch of img attributes in a bunch of tags. I'm not a big fan of IBM's work (did anybody try navigating the Wimbldon site or get scores?), but the issue is not as clear as what's being discussed here.
Can somebody clear this up? The key might be in this quote from the article. "SOCOG will also have to provide access to the Index of Sports for the schedule page and access to the results tables to be featured during the Games." I could not figure out what this meant, since it looks like people already had easy access to this information.
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I can definitely see why the Audrey will be discontinued. It was an interesting concept, but it was expensive and didn't do much. Once somebody can come out with an affordable tablet device with wireless networking built in, these things will become more popular. Until then, I'll be enjoying my ePod.
I think the issue is more complicated than just sticking a bunch of img attributes in a bunch of tags. I'm not a big fan of IBM's work (did anybody try navigating the Wimbldon site or get scores?), but the issue is not as clear as what's being discussed here.
Can somebody clear this up? The key might be in this quote from the article. "SOCOG will also have to provide access to the Index of Sports for the schedule page and access to the results tables to be featured during the Games." I could not figure out what this meant, since it looks like people already had easy access to this information.