Reading Not Only Photography Blogs More Productively
Couple weeks ago I was watching this wonderful and inspiring TED talk and been amazed as usual. But it also inspired me to start using Alex too.
Do you usually find yourself so tired you can’t even read? Yeah… me neither. :) But I still want to read blog posts, ebooks, … to keep myself up to date even though I am tired. Fortunately, I’ve recently become aware of  something: albeit my eyes are too tired to read, I am still able to listen. So I’ve started to use my dear friend Alex – the voice-over helper from Apple installed in every mac. I know it’s meant to be used by people who have real troubles seeing, but why not to use him  if he’s already there anyway, right?! So I assigned him a combination of keys on my keyboard and now whenever I feel like I am to tired to read, I just select the text on a website, click (command+shift+]) and Alex is reading for me blog posts, ebook, messages etc.. It is so easy and quite productive – I “read” 20 posts a day now. :)
P.S. Of course Alex is not perfect, but he’s pretty awesome for what he is… and if I see a post which looks “too long”, I just use Alex.
