Signed Languages and the iPad
The coolest thing about the iPad, for me, is that it becomes basically this powerful walking library. Yeah, it has games. Forget that. BOOKS. MOVIES. COMICS. DICTIONARIES. AUGMENTED REALITY PLANETARIUMS. And all this is in your hand – or your backpack. Now, several countries are releasing SL apps and we have the benefit of becoming [...]
Netflix adds captioning to iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch
Netflix has added captioning support, finally, to the iPhone, iPad, and the iPod Touch. Read this MacNN article for more details and directions on how to use the feature. Comment below and let us know how you like the feature, and if it works for you!
Deaf Goofus and Gallant Go to Deaf Happy Hour
About two months ago, I was at the dentist’s office. It reminded me of the two best things about going to the doctor when you’re little: candy and Novocain shots. Um, wait, not Novocain shots, but Highlights for Children. Highlights for Children featured an illustrated story starring two kids, Goofus and Gallant. The purpose of [...]
CaptionFish iPhone App Released
Old-timers, gather for some reminiscing! Remember those captioned movie listings on DeafDC.com? They were updated every Thursday (or was it Tuesday?) and showed RWC, DTS, open-captioned, and subtitled movies playing in D.C., Maryland, and northern Virginia. By 2004 standards, it was a slick setup, programmed from scratch by Tayler Mayer, but it was also all manually [...]
FaceTime is the Future
I believe that the platform known as FaceTime, introduced with the iPhone 4, is the future platform of choice for all video telephony in the deaf community. I don’t say this because I’m a Mac fan, or for any technological evangelism purposes. I say this because it just makes sense. First, a little bit of [...]
iPhone 3G: First Impressions
Well, in a word: “Wow.” If that’s enough for you, you can stop reading. Oh, you want more details. Okay! First, the bad news: The TAP plan is not available yet, so us early adopters of the iPhone 3G have had to pick the standard plans, which start at $69.99 per month, plus text messaging [...]
AT&T offers “Deaf” iPhone Plan
So, AT&T has finally offered a “Deaf/HH” plan for the iPhone. Yay! Deaf iPhoners — go forth and changeth your plans to saveth money. AT&T offers iPhone plan (via Engadget) AT&T Text Accessibility Plan Executive summary: $40/month Unlimited SMS & data (web, etc) 40¢ per minute voice visual voicemail (pretty useless for most of us) [...]
Watch Subtitled Movies on iPod, Apple TV, or iPhone
A friend sent me an awesome link to Submerge, (sorry, Mac OS X only) an new-to-me program that allows you to take any subtitle file (.srt, .sub, etc) and merge it with an mov, m4v, avi file so that you can view the subtitles on any Apple device — from an iPod to the Apple [...]