Author: MrWalker

As college students head back to school with gleaming new laptops, some will, unfortunately, see the last of their machine in a library, cafeteria or dorm room. And it’s not just college campuses that are hot spots for computer theft, or just students who are the targets. Newspapers recently reported that airports in the United…

A Screen reader on the go WebAnywhere is a web-based screen reader for the web. It requires no special software to be installed on the client machine and, therefore, enables blind people to access the web from any computer they happen to have access to that has a sound card. Just visit wa.cs.washington.edu to go…

By JOHN MURRELL This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it reprinted from SiliconValley.com Twenty-five years ago yesterday, Bill Gates unveiled Windows 1.0, which means it was probably 25 years ago today that the first critical assaults on the operating system were launched. A quarter century later, both…

Reprinted from November 13, 2008 – 4:54 pm PDT – by Sean P. Aune The online image editing space has grown rapidly in the past year, providing great free and subscription-based options for users of all levels. These well-rounded services let you import images from your social networks, touch up photos, promote your work, and…

Reprinted from November 18, 2008 – 8:45 am PDT – by Sean P. Aune There is no arguing that YouTube is the most popular video sharing site out there, but that isn’t to say that there aren’t things about it that annoy users.  With that said, there are a wide array of plugins for Firefox…