[ktvt] Fw: top Tech tidbits for thursday, October 5, 2006

"Vy Pham" <missyguide@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Sat, 7 Oct 2006 12:46:45 -0400

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Top Tech tidbits for Thursday, October 5, 2006
1) Spoonbill Software has released another free game usable by the blind.
this one is a version of the word game Boggle. You get this and other games
by sending a request to Ian Humphreys at irhumph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx the web site
is http://www.omninet.net.au/~irhumph/blindgamers.htm
2) the Accessible World presentation for the GMT day of October 10 features
American Printing House for the bind's $49.00 Money Talks package, a
self-voicing bank account management program. The live discussion starts at

00:00, with archives available soon thereafter.
http://www.accessibleworld.org
3) this month's installment of On the Move, Gw Micro's radio program and
podcast, features a sneak peak at window-Eyes version 6.0.
<http://www.gwmicro.com/onthemove>www.gwmicro.com/onthemove
4) Here is a link to a Cnet article discussing the use of mp3 players to
play audio books. It contains links to a lesser-known source for audio books
and to some reviews of mp3 players that include a bookmarking feature,
though of course the reviews do not discuss use of the players from a
blindness perspective.
http://ct.cnet-ssa.cnet.com/clicks?t=13023041-d1930ee7504db8e18937780415b012

80-bf&s=5&fs=0
5) Jamal Mazrui has implemented a number of fixes in his
screen-reader-friendly text editor textPal, version 1.5.
http://www.EmpowermentZone.com/palsetup.exe
6) A new mailing list has been created for discussion of the use of the
various Macromedia web development tools by the blind. to subscribe, send a
message to blind-macromedia-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'subscribe' in the
Subject field.
7) Well-known writer Fred Langa has created a blog to which he adds
frequent entries. http://langa.com/blog And this item from a past Langa List
explains blogs and rss feeds.
http://langa.com/newsletters/2006/2006-09-21.htm#6
8) this installment of Fred's Head Companion discusses a program called 1st
Read it Aloud, which allows you to have text read back to you n a variety of
voices, speeds and languages.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r...ad-selected-text-from-any.html
9) Dragon Naturally Speaking version 9.0 has received very positive
reviews. Now T&T Consultancy has released version 4.0 of JSay Pro which
supports this version and requires JAWS version 7.1.
http://ngtvoice.com/products/software/J-Say/
10) the October 3 installment of The Ranger Station gives a good summary of
recent technology happenings. this blog is a good place to read to keep up
with developments as windows vista gets closer to being released.
http://therangerstation.blogspot.com/
11) At various times during the coming weekend, you can listen to the state
convention of the National Federation of the blind of Colorado.
http://www.cocenter.org/stream.m3u

12. the Lions Center for the blind in Oakland California seeks a Computer
Services Coordinator. the message from which I gleaned this information did
not contain contact information for them, so you'll have to unearth it if
you want to apply for the position.
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