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Engineers from Google have commandeered a booth at this year's CSUN accessibility conference and they're keen to talk up their latest efforts. For the visually impaired, there's now a beta version of a Chrome screen reader called ChromeVox (demo'd after the break), plus improved shortcuts and screen reader withhold in Google Docs, Sites and Calendar. Meanwhile, YouTube boasts expanded caption withhold for the tough of hearing, with automatic captions enabled for 135 million video clips -- a hale tripling of last ...
Posted on February 29, 2012 | Tags: accessibility, blind, caption support, captions, CaptionSupport, Chrome, chromevox, CSUN, deaf, deafness, disabilities, Google, google accessibility, Google Apps, google calendar, Google Chrome, google docs, google sites, GoogleAccessibility, GoogleApps, GoogleCalendar, GoogleChrome, GoogleDocs, GoogleSites, hard-of-hearing, keyboard shortcuts, KeyboardShortcuts, screen reader, ScreenReader, text-to-speech, video, visually impaired, VisuallyImpaired, Youtube
We heard whispers of SkyDrive desktop applications a few days ago. Today, Microsoft confirmed just that alongside a Metro-style offering for Windows 8 and other improvements to its cloud storage tech. In a post on the Building Windows 8 blog, the outfit discusses file sync via desktop app for easy drag-and-drop use -- much like we've become used to with Dropbox. ...
Posted on February 21, 2012 | Tags: app, application, cloud, Cloud Storage, CloudStorage, desktop application, desktop sync, DesktopApplication, DesktopSync, Internet, metro app, metro ui, MetroApp, MetroUi, Microsoft, microsoft skydrive, MicrosoftSkydrive, skydrive, Storage, video, windows, windows 8, Windows8
Sony has demonstrated the face-recognition and tracking capabilities of the upcoming PlayStation Vita handheld, using the portable console’s front-facing camera to track head movement and have on-screen avatars respond accordingly. In the demo, filmed by Siliconera and which you can see after the cut, Sony showed a two-way video chat being held between a pair of animated avatars, the head, mouth, eye ...
Posted on July 04, 2011 | Tags: Archive, augmented reality, Gaming, PlayStation Vita, PS Vita, video
If you're like us, you've probably been holding your breath in anticipation since Commodore USA announced its replica of the famous C64. It promised a keyboard PC that duplicated the original's retro-beige finish, with an Atom CPU and an NVIDIA Ion graphics card under the hood. But despite numerous announcements, and even after a cross-promotion with Tron: Legacy, they've yet to ...
Posted on June 20, 2011 | Tags: Barry Altman, BarryAltman, c64, commodore, commodore 64, commodore PC64, commodore USA, Commodore64, CommodorePc64, CommodoreUsa, desktop, desktops, keyboard computer, keyboard pc, KeyboardComputer, KeyboardPc, licensing, pc in a keyboard, PC64, PcInAKeyboard, retro, video
With the advancement of web technologies, it is not surprising that the web and web applications are increasingly playing an important part of our experience on the computer. In the coming week, Google is releasing its first Chromebooks - netbooks which are based completely on a cloud OS and in which the traditional desktop has been replaced by the web browser. ...
Posted on June 07, 2011 | Tags: address bar, AddressBar, app, browser, desktop, desktop browser, DesktopBrowser, download, google chromebook, GoogleChromebook, home screen, HomeScreen, html, interface, javascript, linus, Mac OS X, MacOsX, Mozilla, mozilla chromeless, MozillaChromeless, operating system, OperatingSystem, OS, shell, video, webian shell, WebianShell, windows
Here's a quick look at the new start screen for Windows 8 running on a Dell XPS Development Tablet. The tablet supports both touch and external keyboard interfaces. The UI is ridiculously smooth, it seems even quicker than Windows Phone 7.
On tablets Windows 8 will support PlayBook like bezel gestures (the gestures actually take place on the ...
Posted on June 01, 2011 | Tags: d9, Microsoft, operating system, OperatingSystem, OS, steven sinofsky, StevenSinofsky, tablet, tablet pcs, TabletPcs, tablets, touchscreen, video, windows, windows 8, Windows8
From Endgadget.com -- We just got to spend some quality time with ASUS' newly unveiled Padfone and you can see the smartphone that doubles up as a tablet on video after the break. It's still a mere mockup for now, but ASUS has big plans for it -- plans that coalesce around the Christmas period and the very latest version of ...
Posted on May 30, 2011 | Tags: android, Asus, asus padfone, AsusPadfone, breaking news, Computex, Computex 2011, Computex2011, hands-on, ice cream sandwich, IceCreamSandwich, launch, padfone, release, smartphone, tablet, video
You might think yourself too grown-up to be wowed by shiny, glittery things, but we doubt many will be able to watch NVIDIA's new Glow Ball tech demo without a smidgen of childlike glee. Built to run on the company's quad-core Kal-El processor, it shows us the first example of true dynamic lighting on mobile devices and also throws in some ...
Posted on May 30, 2011 | Tags: advanced, android, arm, ball, cloth, Computex, Computex 2011, Computex2011, demo, demonstration, dynamic, dynamic lighting, DynamicLighting, gfx, glow, glow ball, GlowBall, GPU, graphics, Hardware, honeycomb, kal-el, lighting, mobile graphics, MobileGraphics, NVIDIA, nvidia tegra, NvidiaTegra, physics, pre-production, quad core, QuadCore, smartphones, system-on-chip, tablets, tegra, tegra 3, tegra zone, Tegra3, TegraZone, video
The thickest part of this new laptop is 17mm, its entire body is built from an aluminum alloy, and the CPUs can be specced as high as Core i7. Anything else you need to know before drooling all over yourself? ASUS projects the launch of its shiny new UX21 in September, and you can see it on ...
Posted on May 30, 2011 | Tags: Asus, Computex, Computex 2011, Computex2011, hands-on, ultrathin, ux21, video
NVIDIA and YouTube made a rather caveat-heavy announcement today that promises to bring stereoscopic 3D YouTube videos to NVIDIA 3D Vision PCs and notebooks, running Firefox 4. If you're rocking an NVIDIA GeForce GPU-equipped machine, sporting driver release 275 or later, a 3D Vision monitor, notebook, projector, or DLP HDTV, and Firefox 4 with streaming HTML5, you've got access to all ...
Posted on May 27, 2011 | Tags: 3D, 3D video, 3dVideo, Firefox 4, Firefox4, GeForce, GeForce GPU, GeforceGpu, HTML5, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox 4, MozillaFirefox, MozillaFirefox4, NVIDIA, NVIDIA 3D vision, NVIDIA 3D Vision YouTube suppost, NVIDIA GeForce, Nvidia3dVision, Nvidia3dVisionYoutubeSuppost, NvidiaGeforce, video, Youtube, YouTube 3D, Youtube3d
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