Accessibility Technology Opens Doors for People, Brings Opportunity to Business
by Lee Rickwood
Accessibility technologies are helping developers and designers create public spaces that are easily navigable for everyone.
Tag: apps
How connected smartwatches are becoming critical tools for service workers
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
For many, who can’t be seen on their smartphones, having a connected smartwatch is a link to the outside world.
Best mobile apps for travelers
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
Our smartphones and their apps can be lifelines during travel. With the ability to track flights, translate languages on the fly and even find hotel rooms at a moment’s notice, these are my preferred travel apps.
QuickBooks Self-Employed mobile app prepares freelancers and small businesses for tax time
By Gadjo C. Sevilla
Intuit’s QuickBooks Self-Employed mobile app eliminates the pain points associated with financial management and helps self-employed workers easily manage their operations from anywhere as well as be ready for tax filing season.
STEM Tools Help Tomorrow’s Girls Tackle Robots, Coding and More
by Lee Rickwood
Yes, they are colourful and a little bit cutesy, but SmartGurlz robots are serious about encouraging girls to become tomorrow’s computer programmers.
Canadian Food App Turns Social Ordering into King Street Ritual
by Lee Rickwood
The app offers what it calls the Piggyback service, kind of a peer-to-peer delivery network inside of a company or office doing the ordering. If one worker is going to pick up a coffee, a co-worker can “piggyback” on that order and bring back two cups.
When You Lose Internet Service, What’s Left? RightMesh and Mesh Networking
by Lee Rickwood
RightMesh has developed powerful responses to natural disasters, economic or technical inequities, and even those threats posed by legislation seen to undermine Net Neutrality.
Review: HP Sprocket pocket photo printer
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla
I still find the print size to be too small for most types of group shots, they’re fine for portraits or selfies with one or two people.