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"Henderson Michael" <Michael.Henderson@xxxxxxx> writes to all on "view"
Top Tech tidbits for Thursday, June 22, 2006
1) Read from the Braille Monitor the official release announcement for the Kurzweil NFB Reader, a first-of-its-kind portable reader costing $3,495. http://www.nfb.org/bm/bm06/bm0607/bm060703.htm
2) Jonathan Mosen's recent 100-minute Accessible World presentation on Skype can be downloaded here: http://accessibleworld.org/show.php?contentid=43
3) Sean randall has updated his free Skype add-on called SKRead. It reads out various events such as call status, contact status information or skype chats, and is screen-reader-independent. http://www.randylaptop.com/projects/skread/
4) Jim Grimsby has updated the JFW scripts for winamp to support the winamp Library which is no longer accessible. the scripts can be found on the Programs page on jfwlite, under the audio-related applications section. www.jfwlite.com
5) The public beta phase is over, and JFW 7.1 has been released. http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws710fea.asp
6) De Witt & Associates has produced a $129 tutorial on using the Sendero GPS system for the blind in print, braille and daisy formats. http://rd.bcentral.com/?ID=4193403&s=116970891
7) the next free online training from Talking Communities will take place at midnight on GMT Tuesday, 27 June, and will be entitled Basics of File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Setting Up An FTP Server. http://www.talkingcommunities.com/pat
8) From the Fred's Head Companion http://feeds.feedburner.com/FredsHeadCompanion?m=1740 we learn about a fully-audio adventure game, Sounds Like Fun. http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/assist/et/2005/SoundsLikeFun.html
9) Dancing Dots announces the release of CakeTalking 5.0, the latest version of this package, which gives JAWS functionality to the Sonar music production package. http://www.dancingdots.com/index.htm
10) Triumph technology is offering a $200 discount on its MPac to those who attend either of the national conventions for the blind in the US in July. the M-Pac consists of a PocketPc device, bluetooth keyboard, the MobileSpeak Pocket screen reader and a tutorial. http://www.triumphonic.com/
11) Freedom Scientific has also released version 10 of the screen enlargement program MAGic. http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_MAG100.asp
12) Jamal Mazrui has created a zip file of all the help documentation for JFW 7.1 in text format. http://www.empowermentzone.com/jfw71doc.zip
13) Jackie Rumble has created a mailing list called technical-support. To join, write to technical-support-subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
14) If you want to listen to the AccessWatch podcast, discussing accessible software, subscribe to the podcast here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/accesswatch
15) From Jeff bishop's Desert Skies blog http://jeffbishop.net/archive/2006/06/22/811.aspx we learn about a site where you can test your firewall for "leaks." http://oncomputerstips.blogspot.com/2006/06/firewall-leak-tester.html
16) another tip from Fred's Head Companion, learn how to use MSN Messenger to get information from the Encarta encyclopedia. http://feeds.feedburner.com/FredsHeadCompanion?m=1744
17) EASI offers a free web clinic on 27 June at 19:00 GMT: Designing Content for Web Delivery. Register here: http://easi.cc/forms/june27.htm
18) HumanWare Group is looking to hire a blindness technical support analyst. Deadline 26 June. to apply, e-mail application and cover letter to Belinda Hall at belinda.hall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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