The iPad: a Near-Miracle for My Son With Autism My son Leo's life was transformed when a five-dollar raffle ticket turned into a brand-new iPad. I'm not exaggerating. Before the iPad, Leo's autism made him dependent on others for entertainment, play, learning, and communication. Irony: We hadn't even considered getting Leo an iPad. After Leo spent five minutes with his iPad, I realized that any assumptions I had about it being merely a bigger or a more breakable iPod touch were idiotic. Leo mastered the iPad interface within a day. He's attempting drawings like we've never seen before on his iPad, via MagnaDoodle-y apps like DrawFree. But it's the early learning apps that really let Leo shine, like the spelling program FirstWords. IWriteWords is another intuitively designed favorite, and includes writing as well as spelling -- both challenging areas for Leo. Those two spelling apps may be autism-friendly, but they're not autism-focused. Leo may have communications difficulties, but he is a visual boy and a visual schedule pro.
Lecteurs en colère | La vérité sur les ePubs commerciaux | Page 3 Bonjour cher lecteur, Voici le tome 2 (pour respecter la logique éditoriale du livre) de mon article sur Les Enfers Virtuels de Iain Banks aux Éditions Robert Laffont. Après mes commentaires sur le prix, le DRM, les deux tomes, je m’attaque maintenant, bien entendu, au code. Si tu te souviens bien, le dernier ePub de Robert Laffont analysé par mes soins était Drood de Dan Simmons. Même si celui-ci était loin de la perfection, il y avait une base respectant la logique HTML. Avec les corrections suggérées, celui-ci deviendrait convenable à mes yeux. J’attends toujours la nouvelle version promise par la responsable numérique de Robert Laffont. Bref, j’ai analysé un code. Comme à chaque fois, je commencerai par le rendu, ce que toi simple lecteur (en apprentissage de code grâce à tes saines lectures) remarquerait facilement. Et dès la couverture, ça coince : Une énorme marge à droite (période électorale oblige?) En ouvrant la CSS, j’ai eu un regain d’espoir, une entrée manuelle ! Mais bien pire.
Spectrum: Red-Hot Robots It’s been a whirlwind 5 months for Douglas Hines, the self-professed computer geek who—after wading in obscurity for two decades in the computer-systems trenches—created a media frenzy with Roxxxy, the world’s first sex robot. News outlets like Fox News, BBC, and CNN clamored for a shot of Roxxxy after her January unveiling at the Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, while the Web site for his company, True Companion, logged 4.4 million hits. Roxxxy will be featured in the upcoming Discovery Health network documentary Sex Robot! And Hines has been fielding investor requests while simultaneously taking steps to expand and refine his product line with advanced facial animatronics, like blinking eyelids. It’s also been a bit scary—he’s had to dodge nutcases and even death threats. “Look, I’m middle-aged, balding, and heavy,” says Hines, a 27-year IEEE member. Hines devised the skin by encasing a woman—a fine-art model—in silicone and cutting the material away after it solidified.
News Corp. Buys Part of Skiff E-Reader From Sprint and Hearst Joint Venture | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD In January, Hearst and Sprint showed off something called a Skiff e-reader, which was designed with newspapers and magazines in mind and was supposed to go on sale this year. Hope you weren’t planning on buying one. News Corp. announced today that it has purchased Skiff from Hearst–but only the publisher’s e-reader software platform. The device itself remains the property of Hearst, which doesn’t want it, either; I’m told the publisher is trying to find a buyer. It’s theoretically possible that Sprint (S) will continue forward with a reading device that didn’t seem very appealing in January and that no one seems to want now. So what to make of News Corp.’s purchase? First: Not a surprise. Meanwhile, since the “Hulu for Magazines” joint venture (now officially named “Next Issue Media”) didn’t end up using the Skiff platform, what does News Corp. intend to do with it? Easy enough to assume that News Corp. will incorporate it into its planned digital news subscription service.
E3 2010: Hands on with Disney’s DigiComics for iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch Sections: Comics-and-Graphic-Novels, Conventions, E3, Features, Gaming News, Gear, Handhelds, iPhone & iPod Touch & iPad, Previews You might think there were only console and PC games at E3 2010. Oh, how wrong you are. There were plenty of iPod Touches and iPads (secured to displays, of course) showing games and even a few apps on the exhibition floor. In the same booth as the Disney’s Epic Mickey was a small area with a half dozen iPads running a Disney DigiComics app. With it you can download Disney comics, viewing them a panel or half panel at a time, depending on the size and orientation of each panel. While Disney comics have had a shaky existence and been bopping between publishing companies, this app may help to bring it back into some people’s reading list. Even so, here are photos of a few panels as displayed on the iPad: Site [Disney DigiComics]
How to Silence Vuvuzela Horns in World Cup Broadcasts @SimonSaysBleed: I dunno. Ask all the other people buying them like crazy in other countries now. Why is anyone surprised that loud football fans are loud? @SimonSaysBleed: From what I understand, they're usually used by about 10% of the people in a stadium, and far less often than people are using them now. Somewhat like air horns at a hockey game. So don't feel embarrassed for South Africa, feel embarrassed for the tourists. @SimonSaysBleed: why would you be embarrassed for SA? @SimonSaysBleed: I think the sound created by gimmicky noise makers is exciting and helps to motivate the players. Sincerely, ThunderSticks and cow bells /Anaheimed&Tampa Bayed //Rome'd
Forrester Projects Tablets Will Outsell Netbooks By 2012, Desktops By 2013 The tablet era has just begun, but Forrester Research is already predicting tablet sales in the U.S. will overtake netbook sales by 2012, and desktop sales by 2015. At the Untethered conference today in New York City, Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps laid out her projections comparing tablet sales to netbooks, laptops, and desktops. She expects 3.5 million tablets (including the iPad and other tablets) to be sold this year, growing to 20.4 million in 2015. Meanwhile, she expects desktop sales to drop from 18.7 million units in 2010 to 15.7 million units in 2015. As a percentage of overall PC sales, tablets will grow from 6 percent this year to 18 percent in 2012 (when netbooks are estimated to account for 17 percent of sales. The big question is how much of the tablet market can Apple capture? These projections are for unit sales, not total revenues, but still the expectation that there will be more tablets sold in five years than any other type of computer is stunning.
Bookbuilders of Boston | Jobs | Postings Postings — Design and Desktop Publishing Back to Job Postings Printer-friendly version eBook Specialist Posted: June 10, 2010 Short Description: Jones and Bartlett Learning, world leading provider of educational materials for the post secondary market, is seeking an experienced individual with strong computer and organizational skills, to work on a developing project. Duties and Responsibilities: Reporting to the eBook Coordinator in this new full time position, the eBook Specialist will participate in the digital processes for production of digital textbooks and ancillary products with a strong emphasis on project management. Summary of Areas of Responsibility: " Work with eBook Coordinator to prepare products for submission to eBook vendors, including gathering PDFs, preparing metadata, uploading and confirming vendor receipt, all according to individual vendors specifications. Required Experience: Salary/Hours: Direct Application To: Please send resume with cover letter to:
Seats to spare – but Fifa won't let South Africans fill them - Africa, World Supporters already in South Africa have found themselves unable to get in to supposedly sold-out games, only to see banks of unused seating showing on television pictures. World football's organising body, Fifa, continues to insist that ticket sales for the tournament in South Africa are higher than any previous finals except for the USA '94. In staging the first World Cup on African soil, Fifa had vowed to fill the stadium, and set up a four-tier pricing system to ensure that tickets would be affordable to ordinary South African football fans and priced attractively enough to lure Africans from the rest of the continent to make the trip. A total of 3 million tickets were made available for the month-long tournament, and organisers are insisting that only one week in, it is too early to judge whether mistakes have been made with ticketing. Explanations for empty seats abound. Instead, the finger is beginning to be pointed in the direction of the "Fifa family". Seating problems...
Live map of London Underground trains Loading... Powered by Leaflet — Map tiles © Thunderforest, data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Live London Underground map By Matthew Somerville. Data collected: Mon, 05 Sep 2016 08:33:02 +0100 <div style="border: solid 2px #cc0000; padding: 5px; width: 70%; margin: 1em auto;"> I'm afraid that this page requires JavaScript to draw the maps and plot move the trains, which isn't possible with just HTML. More information Hide What is this? This map shows all trains (yellow dots) on the London Underground network in approximately real time. I have similar things for the London buses and National Rail, and an awesome bookmarkable train times journey planner. — Matthew How does it work? Live departure data is fetched from the TfL API, and then it does a bit of maths and magic. Who did this? Matthew Somerville (with helpful hinderances from Frances Berriman and James Aylett). Originally built at Science Hackday, June 2010.
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