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From: "Dean Martineau" <dean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 1:44 AM
Subject: Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, November 10, 2005
Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, November 10, 2005
The rss feed for Tidbits contained some errors. Thanks to a reader pointing out that it wasn't working, those errors have, I believe, been removed. This is a great way to keep up with Tidbits, especially if you are among the growing number who cannot receive the e-mail version.
With the articles being added this week, thirteen audio articles are available to Sound Computing subscribers. They'll eventually have access to fifty in this series. If you'd like to know what is available at present, send a blank message to sc13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article 11, we learn to use the Notetab regular expression engine to make braille documents that are better suited for display on a portable braille device.
Window-Eyes version 5.5 has been officially released. It includes full support for the popular Firefox web browser and for Microsoft Excel, the ability to run Window-Eyes from a usb drive, a new menu design to make the program easier to learn, and smooth interaction with baloon tooltips among other features. http://www.gwmicro.com/window-eyes
The current issue of The Voice of the Nation's Blind contains a review of the Braille Sense from Gw Micro. http://www.voiceofthenationsblind.org/articles/175/braille-sense-a-comparative-evaluation
You can read an article from Poker News entitled Blind Man's Bluff: Online Poker for the Blind at http://www.pokernews.com/news/2005/11/online-poker-blind.htm
Scanner manufacturer Plustek has launched the Book Reader, advertised as the only reading peripheral device under $700 that is devoted entirely for book reading by the visually impaired. http://www.plustek.com/bat
In Sound Computing, we'll be focusing a lot on TotalRecorder, a program
that lets you record streaming audio for later listening. In article 12,
we learn how to solve a problem which occurred when one user wanted to
record a site that was hard to get to using TotalRecorder's browser. We'll
learn to use a simple command-line tool called Send which has other
potential uses.
Feedster lets you search blogs, newsgroups and podcasts. http://podcasts.feedster.com/
EASI will broadcast three sessions from the Accessing Higher Ground
conference on 11 November: Accessibility of Online Resources in Academic
Libraries, Panel: Current Trends in Electronic Books, and Library e-Journal
Accessibility - A Usability Study. Proceedings begin at 16:15 GMT. on
that day, a link to the broadcasts will be found on the EASI home page,
http://easi.cc/
If you register beforehand, you can receive a link to recordings:
http://easi.cc/forms/ahg.htm
The Digital Books for Visually Impaired Persons Blog has been launched to discuss how to get more material into digital formats http://shrikantdtb.blogspot.com/2005/11/digital-books-for-visually-
OPAL (Online Programming for All Libraries) has two educational programs
coming up: On Thursday, 17 November at 01:00 GMT: Shopping Online: Click
and Ship, provides tips and tricks for shopping as well as for avoiding
pitfalls. Friday, 18 November at 19:00 GMT: The Mouse Pad Traveler: Using
the Internet to Plan and Purchase Your Travels, will discuss techniques for
planning travel on the net and for doing so safely. Archives will be
available.
http://www.opal-online.org/progschrono.htm
To find the best current prices for memory and flash cards and memory sticks, a good place to visit is www.dealram.com Their affiliated site www.dealnews.com lets you receive alerts for deals for a variety of items and keeps running tabs on bargains.
In Sound Computing Article 13, we look at the JAWS for windows Speech and
Sound Manager and how it can make computer use more efficient and enjoyable.
Version 5.11 of Goldwave, the inexpensive and popular sound editor, is now available, featuring some new features and some fixes. www.goldwave.com
A mailing list subscriber asked where one can download sound effects, and one answer given was http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/
The latest version of the popular voice chat program Skype, at http://www.skype.com/ is said to be accessible with JFW. This is version 1.4.0.84.
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