You can enable Androids screen reader from the Linux command line
with the following command:
adb shell settings put secure enabled_accessibility_services com.google.android.marvin.talkback/com.google.android.marvin.talkback.TalkBackService
Unfortunately you had to enable USB
Debugging on your Android device before. Furthermore you must
install the Android
Debug Bridge on your PC. Otherwise the command above will not
work.
My server runs an MPD instance
for music playback. The following script for Mac announces the currently
playing song after every song change. It uses Mac OS build in TTS and
tries to guess the song title language.
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This Android application Monitors the clipboard and speaks newly
added text immediately.
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I’m a great fan of the TV series Game of Thrones and the books it’s
based on. In cooperation with Jens Bornschein from the TU Dresden I’ve
created tactile maps of Westeros and Essos and made them available for
download . Be aware, you need a braille printer or similar device to
produce tactile maps.
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I’ve created a small Android app, which vibrates the current time. To
start the vibration the display must be locked. Then press the power
button twice in a row with a delay between 500 and 1500
milliseconds.
Update 2024: Version 2.2.0 supports Android 14
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Last year I’ve converted my blog to Octopress, a static website generator.
Although I appreciate the general advantages of a static website
generator I miss two features now:
- Octopress doesn’t support multilingual websites
- It’s mainly for blog’s. Other website layouts are difficult to
realize.
The layout adaption would be fairly time consuming. So I searched for
an alternative website generator which allows a more flexible design. I
found what I searched for at nanoc. This
article contains the created nanoc theme for this website.
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