It’s been a labour of love getting Readahead going.
My Uncle, a school teacher in the UK designed this fantastic reading system many years ago now. About 10 years ago he asked if I could design some software to demonstrate it and help teach the system to not only children, but anyone with reading difficulties or learning English as a second language. (continue reading…)
Here’s a little introduction to using gmail through the web interface (“webmail”).
This is for those folk who have a gmail account, but are used to using it via regular email software like Thunderbird, Outlook or Windows Mail. When you leave home and want to check your mail at a friend’s house or internet cafe this is what you’ll need to use. (continue reading…)
There seems to be no elegant way of transferring a picture you see in Picasa into an OpenOffice document.
This tutorial shows a quick, but not very intuitive, way of doing just that. It’s worth remembering as it’s very simple to do. This example shows OpenOffice Draw, but same will apply to OpenOffice Writer documents too, and probably any application which opens a file dialog to insert a picture.
As a software developer with toddlers I write the odd bit of software to see if I can grab their attention.
While my older boy enjoys more interesting computer activities (e.g. http://www.poissonrouge.com) my 2 year old envies him and longs for something she can do herself. Enter “Splat”. Hit any key and lots of sounds, shapes, colours and the key you hit comes up on the screen.
Splat - lots of colours and sounds
Utterly pointless but they seem to love it. Just don’t look for any redeeming educational value. I have other things for that, which I’ll post later.
Download here, then double click the .jar file to run it. You’ll need Java installed.
