Accessibility isn't something that should be added onto a web page, it should be baked in. With yesterday being International Day of People with Disability, accessibility advocates were been out in force to fight the good fight. My tip: for another twelve months, the message will go unheeded, again. But this year, at least...
Looking for a new market or adding a unique edge to your app? Then support for in-car usage could be just the ticket. As jurisdictions clamp down on in-car usage of mobile phones, many drivers' only interaction with their mobile devices is controlling Bluetooth audio playback from steering wheel controls, if they are lucky...
The world of Linux: Where making a laptop engage its wired connection when attached to a dock is an exercise in frustration. As a recent beneficiary of a laptop upgrade, I took the opportunity to re-examine my choice of Linux distribution that I use day-to-day. After a year of Arch Linux, and that distro...
An estimated 7,000 Cape fur seals have been discovered dead at a breeding colony in central Namibia, scientists said on Saturday. Conservationist Naude Dreyer of the charity Ocean Conservation Namibia began noticing dead seals littering the sandy beaches of the Pelican Point colony near Walvis Bay city in September. Then in the first two...
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Emissions from coal-fired power plants in China are fertilizing the North Pacific Ocean with a metal nutrient important for marine life, according to new findings from a USC-led research team. The researchers believe these metals could change the ocean ecosystem, though it's unclear whether it would be for better or...
Micaela Pedrazas (left) and Cansu Demir, both graduate students at The University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences, examining an exposed side of an ice wedge polygon, which was uncovered by erosion and melting. An ice lens is visible to the right of Demir. Credit: Bayani Cardenas If you flew from the...
If you failed to make the trip to Perth for LCA this year, you are able to watch most of the talks online. Linux.conf.au took place last week in Perth, and this year, the conference's video team has outdone itself, with the session videos appearing the next day in a lot of cases. The...
As if there were not enough fragmentation issues with Android, app makers go out and make it worse when they limit installations to specific devices. Here I sit, with a barely six-month-old Galaxy S4, and yet I cannot use an app available for the device, because the version of the S4 that I have...
Having come to grips with consumerisation and BYOD entering the marketplace, Australian businesses have set their target on creating apps to serve internal and external customers. With a majority of large Australian businesses either on the way to implementing an enterprise mobility strategy or having one already in place, a recent survey says that...
In this file picture taken on September 13, 2020 a man gestures in a burnt area of the Pantanal in Brazil, part of a large area ravaged by fires Under stress from a historic drought, large swathes of forest and wetlands in central South America known for their exceptional biodiversity have been ravaged by...