Here’s a little something to cleanse the palette from all the Flash\/HTML5\/etc. bits.<\/p>\n
The other day designer Khoi Vinh remarked<\/a> on his young daughter’s iPhone fascination, lamenting the lack of a toddler mode that could do things like override the home button. Like many parents I know, I’m in just the same boat, as our two toddlers abscond with & modify my phone and iPad. \u00a0I can’t offer a lot of tips, though I heartily recommend the fun little audio app Bebot<\/a>. \u00a015-mo.-old Henry now drags me the tablet demanding “Bebop, bebop!”<\/p>\n On the Mac, however, I’ve found a very winning combo: Alfred<\/a> (a Quicksilver-style launcher utility) plus AlphaBaby<\/a>, a shape, letter, and sound generator–both free.\u00a0\ufeffI feel like a missile defense system, where milliseconds of reaction time make all the difference between success & disaster. The Alfred\/AlphaBaby combo means that I can simply hit Opt-Space, then type “A” to select AlphaBaby and launch it. Unngh<\/em>, in your faces,<\/em> little dudes! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Hope that’s of use to someone. Any other advice and suggestions are welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s a little something to cleanse the palette from all the Flash\/HTML5\/etc. bits. The other day designer Khoi Vinh remarked on his young daughter’s iPhone fascination, lamenting the lack of a toddler mode that could do things like override the home button. Like many parents I know, I’m in just the same boat, as our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}