Message date: 2009-03-25

WCAG 2.0 Checklist by WebAIM

The more I read up on WCAG 2.0, the more I think it is a huge improvement over WCAG 1.0. The main problem is its size, which makes it hard to get an overview of and likely is a barrier to entry for many. I posted links to a few places to start reading up on WCAG 2.0 in Going from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0, and those are well worth reading. But an even more compact summary of the guidelines in WCAG 2.0 is WebAIM
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'Nationalise Eircom to solve broadband problems'

The government is being urged to consider nationalising Eircom in a bid to solve Ireland's broadband problems.
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Cyberclinic: Why don't batteries last as long as they're supposed to?

As much as we can be certain of anything, we know that there are 100 pence in a pound, six eggs in a box and 53 seats on an executive coach. But one hour of battery life in a cutting-edge gadget contains substantially less than 60 minutes – to a point where the word "hour" has become as meaningless as, I dunno, "squilp".
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Why are video games so expensive?

Long before they see the "game over" screen, Xbox, Wii and PlayStation fans have already taken a big blow – to their wallets. The average price of console games makes them seem an exorbitant luxury in these recession-hit times, although the industry that creates these technological marvels tends to disagree.
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YouTube blocked in China over disputed video

YouTube, the video-sharing Web site owned by Google, is inaccessible in China for at least a second day, about a year after the country limited access to the site following protests in Tibet.
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It's market strategy, but in a virtual world of its own

University lecturers have come up with a novel virtual stock market in a bid to understand the boom and bust cycles of financial markets.
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Is there life after Windows?

Once it was fair to say that Linux was the preserve of small coterie of computer nerds typing away in their parents' basements and spare rooms. This is no longer so, however, as the free and easy-to-use operating system with a reputation for rock-solid reliability is coming out of the shadows.
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Big Brother to snoop on Facebook and Bebo users

Millions of people who use social networking sites such as Facebook could soon have their every move monitored by the British government and saved on a "Big Brother" database.
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Dell eschews branding stickers from luxury Adamo laptop

Almost every laptop or CPU out there has a tattoo problem. The unsightly blemishes of contractual licensing agreements: an EnergyStar logo slapped on the battery case, a Windows Vista capable branding seared into a chassis, a Dolby SoundRoom marker emblazoned above the speakers, or an Intel Inside logo smashed into the side. It’s not a [...]
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Vuze 4.2 automatically converts torrented films to iPhone, 360 and more

Vuze (nee Azureus) has long been a dollop of cream floating atop the Bittorrent bisque, and while the lightweight uTorrent may be a more svelte client — the parsley on the cream — no client beats Vuze for features. The latest bullet point on Vuze’s already impressive feature list? As of version 4.2, available on [...]
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Ditch the recipe box for the Demy Digital Recipe Keeper

I like to cook around the home from time to time, so having quick access to recipes often involves pulling out my file folder which contains stained and often disorganized recipes. Of course, most recipes can be easily found on the Internet these days, but who wants to take the chance of getting your laptop [...]
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Sony slices off nose to spite face, charges publishers for DLC hosting

Sony has mucked up the PlayStation 3 pretty much since the get-go. While its predecessor was the most popular console of its generation, the PlayStation 3 is struggling for last place in the current gen console wars. You’d think that would make Sony smart as they scramble to leverage their console’s assets to regain some [...]
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Peek reaches out to business users with the Peek Pronto

The original Peek mobile e-mail device was a strange little gadget, viewed with equal parts incredulity and skepticism by gearheads at large. It did one and only one thing: mobile email. No phone support. No web browsing. No text messaging (although this later came by way of a software update). It was cheap, and did exactly [...]
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Wolfenstein 3D released for iPhone, break a Nazi jail on a jailbroken iPhone

id Software’s seminal 1992 Wolfenstein 3D, the game that’s widely accepted as the granddaddy of FPS games, has been ported onto the iPhone by the game’s original programmer, id’s John Carmack. A 10MB download, the game is fully-featured but is mostly intended as a technical demo, as Carmack has open-sourced the game and released it as [...]
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Nintendo DSi to get Virtual Console

The Nintendo DS has been a pirate’s playground virtually since launch, when the DS-Xtreme flash cart was first released, allowing even the most Ludditical of pirates to simply download the latest games and drag-and-drop them onto their Nintendo DS. Cheap Hong Kong knock-offs soon came down the pike, each more nefarious than the last, [...]
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