Dear All, The August edition of our technology podcast is now available, either to download at http://www.ncbi.ie/files/audiofiles/podcast/podcast_august_2012.mp3 or to listen to directly from your media player of choice at http://www.ncbi.ie/files/audiofiles/podcast/podcast_august_2012.m3u On this month's podcast we find out all about the Vodafone Smart Accessibility awards, when we talk with Josh O’Connor and Hilary Casey. Kerie Doyle tells us about a new app for iOS called Fleksy, which can significantly speed up your typing on a touch screen. We have details about NCBI’s up-coming technology exhibition in September. Finally, Cearbhall O’Meadhra, one of the founding members of VICS shares some of his assistive technology memories and talks about some of his thoughts for the future. Kind regards, Stuart Lawler Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ncbiworkingforpeoplewithsightloss Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ncbi_sightloss Check-out NCBI's Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh appeal on the following link. http://youtu.be/25P2tiuCi0U ******************************************************************** National Council for the Blind of Ireland (NCBI) is a company limited by guarantee (registered in Ireland No. 26293) . Our registered office is at Whitworth Road, Drumcondra, Dublin 9. NCBI is also a registered Charity (chy4626). NOTICE: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient you should not use, disclose, distribute or copy any of the content of it or of any attachment; you are requested to notify the sender immediately of your receipt of the email and then to delete it and any attachments from your system. NCBI endeavours to ensure that emails and any attachments generated by its staff are free from viruses or other contaminants. However, it cannot accept any responsibility for any such which are transmitted. We therefore recommend you scan all attachments. Please note that the statements and views expressed in this email and any attachments are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of NCBI ******************************************************************** ==========================================================The vicsireland mailing list To unsubscribe at any time send a mail to: vicsireland-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe", without the quotes in the subject of the message. To contact the moderator send mail to: tim.j.culhane@xxxxxxxxx For mor information on the Visually Impaired Computer Society visit: http://www.vicsireland.org