Archive for January 2010

Spammers try to make money out of Haiti Earthquake

Everyone knows that spammers are low lifes, but now they’ve sunk to a new low, trying to make money out of the Haiti Earthquake! If you want to donate, do so via the Disasters Emergency Committee’s website at www.dec.org.uk,   Continue reading ‘Spammers try to make money out of Haiti Earthquake’ »

Undoing the last action without the mouse

In many Windows applications you can undo your last action, this can be done by pressing the undo button on the toolbar, or by using the keyboard:-

  • Undo – CTRL+Z
  • Redo – CTRL+Y

Read this to me please! – Natural Reader

If you find it tiring, or difficult to read long passages of text from your computer screen  then you may like to try Natural Reader.
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Online Library of Accessible Textbooks Launched

The University of Edinburgh, in conjunction with The Seeing Ear, have launched the UK’s first online library of text books in alternative formats for visually impaired students.

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