CNIB Conference  Perspectives 2011: Innovations, Knowledge and Support October 21-22 Toronto, Ontario    Call for Papers CNIB invites proposals for sessions for its fall conference, entitled "Perspectives 2011: Innovations, Knowledge and Su ...[Read: CNIB Conference 2011]

Recently, I spoke about a cool app that recognized items you photographed with your IDevice. See: http://goo.gl/O541x   Furthermore, I heard of an app which recognized currency in real-time via the camera on your IDevice. Unfortunately, it's ...[Read: Noogle noggles: not just funny sounding words]

  Many of you have probably wondered where martin's been. Okay, maybe a couple of you. Scratch that, the people at my local Tim Hortons certainly have been wondering. Anyway, I was on holidays participating in a cross-country skiing meet in Denve ...[Read: Want virtual sight? Try oMoby]

These days, with all the new gadgets coming out every 3 months, it's refreshing to see innovative ideas such as this one; no gadgets required. Previously, when you wanted to record a phone call, you'd need expensive hardware and special connection ...[Read: Recording A Phone Call]

By Debbie Gillespie     To commemorate World Braille Day which occurs annually on January 4, (Louis Braille's birthday) I thought we'd take a look at braille production and how it has evolved in recent years.   Braille transcription has alw ...[Read: World Braille Day]

Once in a while, I do fall off the Techno Geek wagon and talk about something else. Today is one of those days.   Since the cold weather has finally hit us in Toronto Canada, (minus 20 degrees Celsius), yes, I know prairie dwellers, that's like ...[Read: Protecting Your Doggie Pawz]

  By Martin Courcelles In October of this year, CNIB, as well as other blindness organizations were invited to participate in a 1 day, round table event at Microsoft's offices in Redmond Washington. The topic was their new Windows Phone 7 opera ...[Read: Microsoft promises accessibility:]

  By Martin Courcells I'm always attracted to simple applications. Much of the CD burning software out there is full of bells and whistles. Sometimes, I'd rather just have a straightforward, no nonsense application and have an easy way of simpl ...[Read: Burning CDs; The Simple Way]

  By Debbie Gillespie Now that the holiday season is upon us, you might be pondering about buying a gadget or to for someone you know who may be blind or have low vision.  Trouble is, you have no idea what's out there, or where to start looking ...[Read: Shopping for Accessible Gadgets]

By Martin Courcelles Ever since I got my IPod Touch, I've been endeavoring to turn it into an IPhone. But why pay for something when you can get it for free? Well, that's a great question Martin. In comes a new app called Talkatone. This partic ...[Read: TalkAtone: Making Free GoogleVoice calls via your IDevice]