Last month I went to a local Future Shop, a consumer electronics store, to purchase a copy of Apple's OS X Snow Leopard operating system. The staff of the store were very helpful in locating the item for me and showed me to the checkout counter. At the checkout counter I was somewhat surprised to find that the point-of-sales (POS) device, used to process credit and bank card transactions, used a touch-screen interface.
Yesterday morning Prime Minister Stephen Harper performed a first, by being the first Canadian Prime Minister to have his remarks streamed live through YouTube. Before and after the PM's speech, and up until Sunday at 1:00pm ET, Canadians can login to the Talk Canada YouTUbe page to submit and vote on questions, which the PM will answer in another live stream on Tuesday.
I was happily surprised last week when I contacted the Centre for People with Disabilities at the Toronto Public Library and a staff member at the Library offered to digitize a book that I had requested. I am completely blind, and therefore cannot access information available through print alone.
