db.tidbits.com - 5/8/2009
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David Schultz, creator of the AppleLust Web site, died in October of 2008. For various reasons, those Mac writers who knew him best seemed to have lost touch with him, and the news of his death will come as a surprise to many. So while writing a few words about David six months after his death ...
David Pogue's "Take Back the Beep" Campaign
db.tidbits.com 7/30/2009 — Kudos to David Pogue for using his New York Times soapbox to point out how the cellular carriers are padding their profits by adding short messages to voicemail greetings, to instructions for listening to your own voicemail, and so on. Sure, it's only a few seconds, but when you multiply that ...
How to make “the iPhone icons speak”
pogue.blogs.nytimes.com 7/16/2009 — While writing his new book on iPhone 3GS, David Pogue (nytimes.com) discovered some features he couldn’t wait to talk about, one of which is part of the accessibility features built-in to iPhone. “You’d never suspect,” Pogue remarks, “that the iPhone ...
iPhone 3GS with VoiceOver Easiest Smartphone for Blind People?
theiphoneblog.com 7/16/2009 —
According to David Pogue in the New York Times , the accessibility features like VoiceOver introduced with the iPhone 3GS make it one of the easiest smartphones for the blind and visually impaired:
First, you tap something to hear it. You ...
Twitter / David Pogue: You can install UNLIMITED ...
twitter.com 7/11/2009 — Loader Twitter.com Login Join Twitter! You can install UNLIMITED APPS! Only 180 show up as icons—but Spotlight can find and open all of them! (And yes, we tried. Stopped at 250!) 8:51 PM Jul 10th from Seesmic Desktop Pogue David Pogue Footer 2009 ...
From the Desk of David Pogue - Take Back the Beep Campaign
nytimes.com 7/30/2009 — Last week, in The Times and on my blog, I've been ranting about one particularly blatant money-grab by U.S. cellphone carriers: the mandatory 15-second voicemail instructions. Suppose you call my cell to leave me a message. First you hear my own ...