The iPad has inspired many older Americans to expand not only their computing skills, but also their short-term memories and their social(-media) circles. Nevertheless, the iPad was not created with our oldest citizens in mind. The screen is not especially large, for example. The computer company Telikin in Chalfont, PA is developing a desktop machine […]
#Tech: Computing Moves To ‘The Cloud’ – Your Files Can Be There Waiting
Last week we pointed out that MobileMe‘s ‘Find My Phone’ feature is now a free stand-alone service for those who have the latest software on the iPhone 4G. If not, the fine folks at MacWorld.com figured out how to get a 3G/3GS onto the same service (although someone’s 4G is required to set it all […]
Font Faces On The Web: New Developments Allow New Flexibilities
In a satisfying moment of serendipity that web browsing allows so many of us, I found an extended discussion about recent developments about the expanding opportunities to use creative fonts on websites to follow up on yesterday’s brief history of two popular print fonts (Baskerville and Gill Sans). The development of fonts from the scribe’s […]
