Thank you. This reminds me of the second mouse button thing. Which is better: a crappy UI that requires a tiny three line display, or an elegant UI that doesn't need a screen at all? Music is very popular with the blind. An MP3 that doesn't require a screen is what these folks (a tiny market, to be sure) have been waiting for. Too bad iTunes isn't compatible with any screen readers!
No doubt I am being prejudiced against still useful technology that is only just reaching obsolescense, but I am just tired of VGA. We have been using it since when, 1989? I have also had very poor luck with widescreen aspect ratios on none-Apple hardware. Mostly I am being a technology snob. But yes, as far as DVI to VGA adaptors go, the one bundled with the Mini Mac is very nice, and I admit that I probably couldn't tell the difference. Still, I want DVI, even if it cost twice as much.
It wasn't clear to me in the other photo series that I would be able to ditch the power brick.
I like the Xenarc USB touch screen FluidSoul, but any one know of a similar DVI native model?
How about a DVI eye-piece style monitor like the red afro guy in the Camel print adds is using?
I don't quite follow the pictures, all they just show how to cut of the standard three-prong AC plug! Why do that take 14 photos? Is that all the CNX-P1900 (coming soon) does? I want to be able to ditch the inverter or the Mini Mac power brick. Not to ungrateful, but how does this help me?
Why is he using the power brick, and therefore a horrible DC to AC to DC conversion? Where are details for DC to DC wiring for the mini? I want to mount a mini on a power wheelchair, but I can tolerate the inefficiencies that result from an inverter.
Several years I helped a friend set up a new computer. I was not watching closely (hey, I was there to help install software). The high end CRT monitor came with two ports: one plug for Mac (old style) and one VGA, and two cables. Until a moment after he turned on the monitor, I had never appreciated that the Mac video connector is the same format used by the PC joystick port... We got flames (briefly) and lots of acrid smoke. Happily, all he lost was a ribbon cable inside the case.
There is an easy work-around, ref. Using the trackpad to select and drag items on the screen.
Use the trackpad pointing area itself for single and double click, and click and drag. It takes like maybe fifteen minutes to get the feel of working this way. After you see for yourself how well this works, and given Apple's penchant for the zero button mouse on the desktop, you will become appropriately grateful the iBook/PowerBook includes even the single button!
Once you get used to tapping the trackpad, the same System Preference dialog box also has a setting to change the physical mouse button to act like the right click you insist that you need. Problem solved!
There is an easy work-around, see Using the trackpad to select and drag items on the screen.
Use the trackpad pointing area itself for single and double click, and click and drag. It takes like maybe fifteen minutes to get the feel of working this way. After you see for yourself how well this works, and given Apple's penchant for the zero button mouse on the desktop, you will become appropriately grateful the iBook/PowerBook includes even the single button!
Once you get used to tapping the trackpad, the same System Preference dialog box also has a setting to change the physical mouse button to act like the right click you insist that you need. Problem solved!
The U.S. Government has been pursing an XML based National File Format (NFF) for some time. This has currently morphed to the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS 1.0), a subset of ANSi/NISO Z39.86 (DAISY 3).
There will be templates available, but not hosted by Apple. The really good ones you will have to pay for.
I am amazed that Keynote has inspired cottage industries just selling themes! It boggles my mind that inexpensive software on a marginalized platform can sustain the livelihood of these companies, for example: 123.
Yes, strict xhtml is. I am mostly doing okay with it, and have pretty much gotten past the lack of an align attribute, but I don't think I ever figured out how to center a table. CSS float attribute could use a center value me thinks.
Anyway, I re-read the jwz quote and there clearly is a typo, 1.2 should be 3.2. He is explicitly talking about title on A HREF (which actually doesn't apply to IMG tool tips) so that all makes sense now. It was about this time that IE started with tool tips for links, probably as a feature Navigator didn't have.
I don't know what other browsers do in the presence of alt="something" title="" but I am confident this works for IE.
Nope. IE displays prefers to display title content (as tool tip) if it can, which is why title="" suppresses tool tip even in the presence of alt="something". Please try it.
unless they fixed that in modern versions
I think it was with IE4 (or maybe one of the decimal revisions) that this behavior changed. I am not sure I would characterize even the current version of IE as "modern" but this little trick has worked for years, at least since HTML 4.0 (1998).
What was HTML 1.2? I thought the first official version was 2.0? For the record, title was a valid attribute for A HREF but not for IMG in HTML 3.2.
There is an easy fix that makes everybody happy and has worked for years. Text browsers and screen reader users get what they need and pop-up text is suppressed.
The one button mouse, or rather glidepoint, drives her nuts. Not the glidepoint itself (she loves that), but the single button.
There is an easy fix:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=152 147.
Use the trackpad pointing area itself for single and double click, and click and drag. It takes like maybe fifteen minutes to get the feel of working this way. After you see for yourself how well this works, and given Apple's penchant for the zero button mouse on the desktop, you will become appropriately grateful the PowerBook includes even the single button!
Once you get used to tapping the trackpad, the same System Preference dialog box also has a setting to change the physical mouse button to act like the right click you insist that you need. Problem solved!
The parent post is very much on target, but the average consumer buys an iPod because of the established mind share. The usability and simplicity are bonuses the average buyer never appreciates because the iPod is their first choice. A radio tuner and an extra GB and $50 savings isn't enough to break people out of their conformist trend. This is lucky not only for Apple but also for the consumer because they get to use a well designed product they would not otherwise be smart enough to pay a little extra for.
If Creative (and other wanna-be's) really want to take market share from the iPod, they need to bite the bullet. Cut your prices in half! If you can't afford to do that, be content being a marginal player and stop making empty boasts that get you nothing but make you loose credibility.
I am delighted that there is no screen, nor even an LCD display. The LEDs bother me a little, but they are probably redundant. Why you ask? I have several friends and collegues that are blind. Short of reloading the OS, no MP3 player has support for speaking menus.
Waiting for the iPod to come down to $199 didn't work. At best maybe you can buy an iPod mini at that cost for Christmas '05.
Waiting for the iPod mini to come down to $99 didn't work, you get a Shuttle instead.
For $249, don't ever expect more than an iPod photo (okay, maybe one with video) and that won't be until MWSF 2007.
If you haven't figured out the pattern yet, Apple only rarely lowers prices. They much prefer to add features at a given price point. The Mini Mac is the wonderful exception! What proves the rule before that was the Bondi iMac.
Do you really want to wait another six and a half years to have a good excuse to try OS X? Buy a Mac now already!
Still not cheap, but at least it's half the cost of the a PRC device.
Say-It! SAM -- A Full-Featured Hand-Held Communication Device That Weighs just 10 Ounces.
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Thank you. This reminds me of the second mouse button thing. Which is better: a crappy UI that requires a tiny three line display, or an elegant UI that doesn't need a screen at all? Music is very popular with the blind. An MP3 that doesn't require a screen is what these folks (a tiny market, to be sure) have been waiting for. Too bad iTunes isn't compatible with any screen readers!
No doubt I am being prejudiced against still useful technology that is only just reaching obsolescense, but I am just tired of VGA. We have been using it since when, 1989? I have also had very poor luck with widescreen aspect ratios on none-Apple hardware. Mostly I am being a technology snob. But yes, as far as DVI to VGA adaptors go, the one bundled with the Mini Mac is very nice, and I admit that I probably couldn't tell the difference. Still, I want DVI, even if it cost twice as much.
It wasn't clear to me in the other photo series that I would be able to ditch the power brick. I like the Xenarc USB touch screen FluidSoul, but any one know of a similar DVI native model? How about a DVI eye-piece style monitor like the red afro guy in the Camel print adds is using?
I don't quite follow the pictures, all they just show how to cut of the standard three-prong AC plug! Why do that take 14 photos? Is that all the CNX-P1900 (coming soon) does? I want to be able to ditch the inverter or the Mini Mac power brick. Not to ungrateful, but how does this help me?
Why is he using the power brick, and therefore a horrible DC to AC to DC conversion? Where are details for DC to DC wiring for the mini? I want to mount a mini on a power wheelchair, but I can tolerate the inefficiencies that result from an inverter.
If only I could bring myself to trust a company that can't be bothered to post HTML.
Several years I helped a friend set up a new computer. I was not watching closely (hey, I was there to help install software). The high end CRT monitor came with two ports: one plug for Mac (old style) and one VGA, and two cables. Until a moment after he turned on the monitor, I had never appreciated that the Mac video connector is the same format used by the PC joystick port... We got flames (briefly) and lots of acrid smoke. Happily, all he lost was a ribbon cable inside the case.
Use the trackpad pointing area itself for single and double click, and click and drag. It takes like maybe fifteen minutes to get the feel of working this way. After you see for yourself how well this works, and given Apple's penchant for the zero button mouse on the desktop, you will become appropriately grateful the iBook/PowerBook includes even the single button!
Once you get used to tapping the trackpad, the same System Preference dialog box also has a setting to change the physical mouse button to act like the right click you insist that you need. Problem solved!
Use the trackpad pointing area itself for single and double click, and click and drag. It takes like maybe fifteen minutes to get the feel of working this way. After you see for yourself how well this works, and given Apple's penchant for the zero button mouse on the desktop, you will become appropriately grateful the iBook/PowerBook includes even the single button!
Once you get used to tapping the trackpad, the same System Preference dialog box also has a setting to change the physical mouse button to act like the right click you insist that you need. Problem solved!
Doesn't "Tap and Hold" for right click (contextual menus) get in the way of dragging?
The U.S. Government has been pursing an XML based National File Format (NFF) for some time. This has currently morphed to the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS 1.0), a subset of ANSi/NISO Z39.86 (DAISY 3).
I am amazed that Keynote has inspired cottage industries just selling themes! It boggles my mind that inexpensive software on a marginalized platform can sustain the livelihood of these companies, for example: 1 2 3.
Anyway, I re-read the jwz quote and there clearly is a typo, 1.2 should be 3.2. He is explicitly talking about title on A HREF (which actually doesn't apply to IMG tool tips) so that all makes sense now. It was about this time that IE started with tool tips for links, probably as a feature Navigator didn't have. I don't know what other browsers do in the presence of alt="something" title="" but I am confident this works for IE.
Use alt="something" and title=""
Use the trackpad pointing area itself for single and double click, and click and drag. It takes like maybe fifteen minutes to get the feel of working this way. After you see for yourself how well this works, and given Apple's penchant for the zero button mouse on the desktop, you will become appropriately grateful the PowerBook includes even the single button!
Once you get used to tapping the trackpad, the same System Preference dialog box also has a setting to change the physical mouse button to act like the right click you insist that you need. Problem solved!
Kewl! Where do I sign up to buy a 1.25 GHz G4 in a full size case for $449?
If Creative (and other wanna-be's) really want to take market share from the iPod, they need to bite the bullet. Cut your prices in half! If you can't afford to do that, be content being a marginal player and stop making empty boasts that get you nothing but make you loose credibility.
That would have been problematic for a G4 Mac Mini. And for the the G5 iMac
But isn't the G5 suppose to be less expensive (for Apple) than the G5?
I am delighted that there is no screen, nor even an LCD display. The LEDs bother me a little, but they are probably redundant. Why you ask? I have several friends and collegues that are blind. Short of reloading the OS, no MP3 player has support for speaking menus.
The really inexpensive Apple keyboards use an ADB connectors. Those will not help you at all!
I am using a Windows USB keyboard on my G4 Mac. It is no problem at all.
Waiting for the iPod mini to come down to $99 didn't work, you get a Shuttle instead.
For $249, don't ever expect more than an iPod photo (okay, maybe one with video) and that won't be until MWSF 2007.
If you haven't figured out the pattern yet, Apple only rarely lowers prices. They much prefer to add features at a given price point. The Mini Mac is the wonderful exception! What proves the rule before that was the Bondi iMac.
Do you really want to wait another six and a half years to have a good excuse to try OS X? Buy a Mac now already!
Well, not just anything. Slashdot passed on Dvorak's most recent bashing of Apple! Elsewhere, there is plenty of heat (but little light) elsewhere.
Still not cheap, but at least it's half the cost of the a PRC device. Say-It! SAM -- A Full-Featured Hand-Held Communication Device That Weighs just 10 Ounces.