It’s the Intel® Reader, a bulky but clever-looking device that takes photos then reads aloud the text within them.

It’s the same kind of thing that could be done with a mobile phone and some text-to-speech software, so with that in mind how much do you think something like this should cost?

£3-400? That would seem reasonable. Try nearly a grand. Nice to know they’re not holding to ransom people for whom this could be, not a specialist gadget but a potentially life-improving piece of kit.

Intel. Duh duh duh FAIL!

I’m looking around for an elegant solution to allow front-end users (not admins) of a WordPress site to login, and edit basic information about themselves.

The current method is great (using a form, whose action attribute is set to the WordPress login page), but if the user mistypes their username and/or password, they’re redirected to a page that looks nothing like the site they’ve been on. Even changing the login header be a bit jarring, so I’m trying to find a way of handling that transparently.

Any ideas?

Wouldn’t it be good to have an HTML tag which would stop Google indexing a part of a webpage?

I’ve been doing a few searches today for words that commonly crop up in places like comment forms, which are common to all blog posts within each site. As these aren’t actual “content” but merely prompts, would it not be handy to tell Google to ignore those bits, so that when you search for text, those portions are ignored?

Is there one already, in HTML 5 maybe?