[ktvt] Fw: Top tech tidbits for Thursday, June 22, 2006

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June 22, 2006

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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