[infoshare] Top Tech tidbits for Thursday, May 31, 2007
- From: "Luis Guerra" <luguerra.mbx1976@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 12:41:00 -0400
Top Tech tidbits for Thursday, May 31, 2007
1) Audio for the very efficiently-run Cell Phone Accessibility Seminar at
the San Francisco Lighthouse for the Blind can now be downloaded.
http://lighthouse-sf.net/~dropbox/lighthouse-sf.org_content/cell_phone_seminar/cell_seminar.mp3
2) Daniel Dalton is creating JAWS scripts for the Thunderbird e-mail
client.
http://members.iinet.net.au/~ddalton/ThunderBirdScripts.html
3) There has been a lot of favorable talk about a new small screenless mp3
player, the Creative Zen Stone. It is easily available, costs $40 US or 25
pounds, and one can transfer files to it with no external software. There
is an external program which adds some useful features, and Brian Hartgen
has written free JAWS scripts to improve its performance. It plays books
from Audible and retains your place in the file if you move to a different
file or folder.
http://www.hartgen.org/zenstone.html
4) From Fred's Head Companion, we learn about final Conflict, a free,
self-voicing Star Trek game.
http://www.usagames.us/stfc.html
5) New Visions Network is a new audio chat site, scheduled to launch on 8
June, which will feature conversation and courses.
http:/www.new-visions-network.com
6) EASI will present a free webinar, Thunder RJ: A Screen Reader with
Training Wheels, on Tuesday, 19 June at 18:00 GMT.
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
7) Shane Jackson has produced a review of the AT&T 8525 PDA which you can
download.
http://www.shanejackson.net/8525.mp3
8. Version 0.5 of NVDA, Non-Visual Desktop Access, the open-source windows
screen reader, has been released. It now supports thirteen languages, has a
self-voicing installation routine, and comes with its own speech
synthesizer.
http://www.nvda-project.org
9) Humanware announces that soon, members of Recording for the Blind and
Dyslexic who use the mPower, PK and Trekker products will be able to play
those books on their devices. Users will have to buy a key from RFB&D to
make this possible.
http://www.humanware.com
10) the Beyond Radio Network offers some unusual web streams and now offers
a free telephone chat number.
http://tbrn.net/
11) Chris Pirillo has an active and often interesting blog / podcast.
http://chris.pirillo.com/
12) I don't know much about this, but the creators of the winamp audio
player have assembled the winamp Essentials Pack, a number of add-ons
intended to enhance use of the player.
http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=5644
13) T.V. Raman, blind engineer currently with Google, was asked to write an
article describing what it is like to be a mathematician who cannot see.
the article, thinking of Mathematics, and a commentary written to address
subsequent questions, is here: the author hopes that it encourages blind
math students and serves as a resource for their teachers.
http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/raman/publications/thinking-of-math/
14) Applian Technologies is accepting beta testers for new versions of
their products. the company makes programs allowing users to record and
convert various kinds of audio from the net, and they have been very
responsive to the needs of screen reader users. the Replay A/V 8.2 beta
page is here
http://applian.com/replay-av/ysi_beta.php
And the Replay Converter version 3 beta is here:
http://applian.com/replay-converter/rc_beta.php
finally, the Applian Technologies blog is here:
http://www.applian.com/blog/index.php
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