From fork-admin@xent.com Thu Sep 5 11:30:26 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: yyyy@localhost.example.com Received: from localhost (jalapeno [127.0.0.1]) by jmason.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0B6A16F78 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:28:23 +0100 (IST) Received: from jalapeno [127.0.0.1] by localhost with IMAP (fetchmail-5.9.0) for jm@localhost (single-drop); Thu, 05 Sep 2002 11:28:24 +0100 (IST) Received: from xent.com ([64.161.22.236]) by dogma.slashnull.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g84In0Z15104 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 19:49:00 +0100 Received: from lair.xent.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24D3F2941DD; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 11:46:03 -0700 (PDT) Delivered-To: fork@example.com Received: from mail.datastore.ca (unknown [207.61.5.2]) by xent.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 243BB29410F for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 11:45:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from maya.dyndns.org [207.61.5.143] by mail.datastore.ca (SMTPD32-7.00) id A5AA6DD00CA; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 14:49:14 -0400 Received: by maya.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 501) id 24C731C336; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:47:45 -0400 (EDT) To: "Jim Whitehead" Cc: "FoRK" Subject: Re: CD player UI for toddlers References: From: Gary Lawrence Murphy X-Home-Page: http://www.teledyn.com Organization: TCI Business Innovation through Open Source Computing Message-Id: Reply-To: Gary Lawrence Murphy X-Url: http://www.teledyn.com/ MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: fork-admin@xent.com Errors-To: fork-admin@xent.com X-Beenthere: fork@example.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Friends of Rohit Khare List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: 04 Sep 2002 14:47:45 -0400 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.4 required=7.0 tests=CLICK_BELOW,KNOWN_MAILING_LIST,NOSPAM_INC,REFERENCES, SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE,SMTPD_IN_RCVD,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.50-cvs X-Spam-Level: Our preschoolers (2 and 4) use Winamp with a Pokemon skin. It's the 2-yr-old who figured out he could put it into a sidebar menu so all he need do is click there to launch their favourite MP3 playlist. What /we/ need is a good "barely literate" email program. Years ago the university of Hawaii had a word processor that included a voice-assist and also would pop up menus for common completions as words were typed; even further back there was a DOS shareware editor that did that latter function extremely well (targetted at the handicapped). With just those little bits of assists, maybe some clever use of pictograms too, I bet kindergarten kids could handle email. -- Gary Lawrence Murphy TeleDynamics Communications Inc Business Advantage through Community Software : http://www.teledyn.com "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."(Pablo Picasso)