One of the things I like about trade shows like DeafNation is that once you’ve seen all the big booths, its fun to check out the smaller booths for lesser known, but top-notch companies with unique products and services. WIN.tv is such an example – they are a branch …

You couldn’t miss Sorenson Communications’ booth at the DeafNation World Expo. It was flashy and, well, huge. The Sorenson staff had many different activities to keep you engaged, as well as a real roulette wheel and table! (Unfortunately, you had to play by Sorenson’s rules, not real …

If you were at DeafNation World Expo, you would have seen that Purple’s area was very busy. They were giving away custom business cards to everyone who wanted one – even if they did not use Purple’s services. You could put down your info and Purple reps would …

IWRelay was one of the first booths I sought out at DeafNation World Expo, simply because they were the first company to provide a VRS solution on the iPhone 4. Their booth was small, but was packed with IWRelay personnel wanting to share the exciting news about their iPhone …

IWRelay’s new IWRelay VRS app is now available via the iTunes App Store.
Once you download the app, you are presented with a configuration screen that prompts you to enter your name, iPhone number, VP number, and your email address. Apparently all 4 fields are mandatory (on my …

Unsurprisingly, there are may be some firewall issues cropping up with FaceTime. You may want to check your firewall settings, or talk to your ISP if you are having issues with missed FaceTime calls. This is not necessarily Apple’s fault – it’s the firewall and ISP issue. Apple …

Late yesterday, Apple announced Safari 5, the latest version of their web browser. Many improvements were made to it, speeding it up, adding Instapaper-like Safari Reader capabilities, and so forth. Accessibility took a step forward, because Apple tweaked the HTML5 video tag support to enable captions of HTML5 …

The “one more thing” from Steve Jobs was something we all expected – video calling on the iPhone 4. What was not expected was how it put American Sign Language users in the spotlight, at the very end of the FaceTime video.

At the same time Jobs announced FaceTime, he …

Whoa. Netflix just announced yesterday that they have enabled captions/subtitles for about 100 titles via their streaming service. Netflix says more are coming. Hearsay is that it also works on the iPad via the Netflix app. We’ll have to investigate. Now we have an alternative …

The MacUpdate Bundle will be ending 4/03. MacUpdate links/ads go to the MacUpdate Promo site, where you will still be able to purchase the bundle. All purchases still benefit DeafMac.org. Thanks for your support! – Ramy
MacUpdate.com, one of my regularly visited websites, offers Mac software discounts on …