Please, please do not be embarrassed by your dilemma, my friend.   

Believe me, I understand. 

Many, many moons ago when I first arrived in California, I, quite simply, ran out of money. Read the rest of this entry »

Hello Everyone, 

There are many visually impaired Smart Phone users who wish to access the Holy Bible on their wireless handset.  Believe it or not, at the time of this post, I was unable to locate a free, downloadable, self contained, relatively modern, access technology compatible, and, most importantly, verse searchable version of the Good Book.

Don’t worry, be happy; for as I pondered this canonic conundrum the answer, in words of wisdom, came to me. Read the rest of this entry »

Greetings:

From the humble seeds of our technological imagination, have blossomed the fearless fruits of wireless progress.  Amen. (Mark Marcus:  February 6, 1967)

As is our nature, with each new fruit borne on the vine of what is now known to be the Information Superhighway, we, incredibly simplistic and characteristically conceited humans, that is, must invent, create, conjugate, elucidate, manipulate, punctuate, masticate, thus, in one way or another, find ways to express the inevitably unforeseen and most likely unforgiving consequences of our tech time toys.  Amen.  (Mark Marcus:  March 18, 1998) 

One of the most incredibly wicked weapons we wield in the “war on wisdom” is the wildly popular and wretchedly worthy wireless Smart Phone.  Amen.  (Mark Marcus:  August 10, 2005)    

Alas, we must admit and endure, from now unto forever, that we and we alone are responsible for the cunningly crass and cleverly conceived concept of “butt dialing”.

As defined in world class dictionaries, “butt dialing” is when one unknowingly and/or accidentally calls someone from a cell/wireless/mobile phone while it, the truly titillating, timeless, and, more importantly, transmitting trinket, is on one’s person but not in one’s hand.  Amen.  (Mark Marcus:  Friday, April 11, 2008)

Hello Everyone,

When you are ready to clean your laptop computer’s display screen, please keep the following in mind: Read the rest of this entry »

Hello Everyone,

Want to keep your smart phone, display screen and all, sparkling clean?  Read the following steps to learn how: Read the rest of this entry »

Hello,

One of the most puzzling decisions you may find yourself having to make is determining what kind of mobile phone to purchase.   

Believe it or not, the answer to this question is not simple, especially if you require the use of adaptive technology in order to access the phone such as a screen magnifier, screen reader, and/or Braille display.

In an effort to assist you in your purchasing decision, I offer the following suggestions: Read the rest of this entry »

Hello Everyone,

Introducing Amazon.com’s Text Pay Me Service: 

In addition to Amazon.com’s Text Buy It feature, which allows you to browse and purchase products, via text message, from your mobile phone, Amazon.com has also introduced Text Pay Me, a service that allows you to send, receive, and request money, via text message, from your mobile phone.

This is, without a doubt, ground breaking technology for both sighted and non sighted Smart Phone users, alike. 

I am happy to provide the following information to you.

Enjoy,

Mark

AMAZON TEXT PAY ME

With Amazon TextPayMe, you can send money to any mobile number or email address right from your mobile phone. Some ways in which you can use Amazon TextPayMe include paying your friends, splitting a restaurant bill, or paying your babysitter.

LIST OF MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS: Read the rest of this entry »

Hello Everyone,

As you may or may not know, on Wednesday, April 4, 2008, Amazon.com announced that it will now allow people to shop and order products, via text message, on a wireless phone. 

I think this is ground breaking technology for both sighted and non sighted Smart Phone users, alike.  

I am happy to provide the following information to you. 

Enjoy,

Mark
AMAZON TEXT BUY IT MOST FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:

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Hello, 

For some reason, Microsoft decided that Windows Mobile Standard Edition users (previously known as Smart phone users) do not need to create new documents on their mobile devices using the Office Mobile suite.  Just so you know, Pocket PC users (now called Professional users) have had this functionality since day 1.

One rather simple solution that will take up less than 42kb of storage space on your device, is to create a blank MS Word and/or Excel document on your PC, mark it as Read Only, and then copy the file to your Smart Phone.  Doing this will allow you to simply select the “New Word Document” template when you are ready to create, rather than merely edit a piece of work.

These steps are done with Office 2003 because Office Mobile for Windows Mobile Standard Edition devices do not support Office 2007 at the time of this writing.

The following steps assume that you wish to create a new MS Word document:  Read the rest of this entry »

NOTE FROM MARK TAYLOR: 

I have reformatted and deleted all the graphics from the following Windows Mobile 6.1 review, written by Pocket Now.com Senior Editor Adam Z Lein, in order to make the article more accessible to screen reading, screen magnification, and Braille applications for the blind and low vision.  Please note that the full text is included, in its original form, in this adaptation.

 Click here to begin.

Mark