Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 1st October, 2009
One of the annoying things that can happen when using Adobe Reader or especially Adobe Acrobat is that the program insists on checking the reading order when you make a change to the file. The "Content Preparation Progress" appears and then you have to wait while it checks through the file and sorts...
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 1st October, 2009
Toshiba were rumoured to have been initaly planning an April 2009 launch for this new technology but held off because of the recession and market conditions. The super charge ion battery could revolutionise technology and uses nanotechnology to rapidly charge in a couple of minutes (90 percent in...
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 1st October, 2009
Another interesting application demonstrated at Communication Matters, Oska is designed to offer a variety of alternative input methods to custom designed keyboards. The software basicaly allows you to design your own keyboards and attach an input method (such as a switch) to control that custom key...
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 30th September, 2009
Peter Keeves (Cornwall Partnership Trust) recently presented a session at Communication Matters on the new Intel Fizzbook Tablet PC and its potential as a low cost voice output communication aid (VOCA). I shall give very brief details on this: Fizzbook Spin (Standard laptop v...
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 29th September, 2009
Yet another mini book (also known as the net-book) hits the market! However, this one is slightly different, as the Toshiba sales Rep claims a 9 hour continuous use battery life from its 6 cell battery. There is a basic XP Home model for £254 (excluding vat) as well as a 3G enabled model ...
Posted by Robert Stewart on the 29th September, 2009
Yet another mini book (also known as the net-book) hits the market! However, this one is slightly different, as the Toshiba sales Rep claims a 9 hour continuous use battery life from its 6 cell battery. There is a basic XP Home model for £254 (excluding vat) as well as a 3G enabled m...
Posted by Paul Nisbet on the 29th September, 2009
PowerPoint copy of presentation by Paul Nisbet and Stuart Aitken at the Scottish Learning Festival on 24th September 2009.
Posted by 14 on the 14th September, 2009
I like The Grid 2 software for pupils who have really complex communication and writing difficulties. Amongst its many good features, I especially like the symbol supported prediction, for users who really have barely any spelling ability at all, maybe just initial letters - but who still want to...
Posted by 14 on the 1st September, 2009
We have just had a chance to trial a new device called the Alt-Chat+ developed by the US company Saltillo and marketed in the UK by Liberator Ltd. It is an interesting mixture of two different devices - it has the hardware 'body' of the Springboard Lite (a very popular small lightweight device) a...
Posted by 14 on the 12th August, 2009
This has been quite a summer for AAC - no fewer than four new communication aids have recently hit the AAC High Street. Firstly there is the mindblowing Proloquo2Go, (P2G) software from Assistiveware which runs on an ordinary iPod Touch (only 115gms in weight) or iPhone. It is undoubtedly the ul...
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