----- Original Message ----- From: "Stuart Lawler" <stuart.lawler@xxxxxxx> To: "'List for discussing news and issues relating to the visually impaired inIreland'" <irelandvipnews@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 10:35 PM Subject: [IrelandVIPNews] NCBI Technology Podcast for July 2013 > Dear All, > > The July edition of our monthly Technology Podcast is now available, and > you can find the audio and show notes by going to > http://www.ncbi.ie/technology-podcast-episode-14-july-2013 and subscribe > directly to the RSS feed by going to > http://www.ncbi.ie/technologypodcast.xml > > On this month's edition: > We spend some time with students participating on the 'Learning For Life' > rehabilitative training programme at NCBI, who tell us about some of their > favourite technology. > Amongst those mentioned are Balabolka, a useful little windows application > to allow you to easily convert text documents into a range of audio > formats, and Fleksy, to make typing on your iPhone, iPod or iPad much > faster! > We continue our Windows 8 tutorial series, this time looking at some of > the configuration settings in Narrator, the built-in screen reader and > also take a look at Windows 8 charms, and how they can be used. > We meet Surabhi Gupta, a developer from San Francisco, who has recently > launched an app called Braillist, which allows entry of Grade 1 and Grade > 2 Braille using your iOS device's touch screen, and best of all, this app > is completely free! > Finally, musician Nicky Kealy from Carlow joins us to talk about his use > of technology. > > Kind regards, > > Stuart Lawler > > NCBI > > > > Follow us on Facebook: > https://www.facebook.com/ncbiworkingforpeoplewithsightloss > Follow us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/ncbi_sightloss > > Check-out NCBI's Micheal O Muircheartaigh appeal on the following link. > http://youtu.be/25P2tiuCi0U > > ******************************************************************** > The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to > which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged > material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or > taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or > entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received > this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any > computer. It is the policy of NCBI Group and all of its subsidiary > companies to disallow the sending of offensive material. > Should you consider that the material contained in this message is > offensive you should contact the sender immediately and also > webmaster@xxxxxxx. > > ******************************************************************** > > > > _______________________________________________ > The IrelandVIPNews mailing list > To unsubscribe, send a blank message to IrelandVIPNews-request@xxxxxxxx > with unsubscribe in the subject line. > To contact the moderators, Email: IrelandVIPNews-owner@xxxxxxxx > IrelandVIPNews@xxxxxxxx > http://lists.ie/mailman/listinfo/irelandvipnews =========================================================== The fb-exchange mailing list Manage account or unsubscribe: //www.freelists.org/list/fb-exchange Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/fb-exchange Administrative contact: insight@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ===========================================================