So you are saying it is not an install? That is, you can run it right from a thumb drive on any computer and not have to install it on the host machine?
Have a great day, Alex
ProgrammingBlind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,Program-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, UAccess-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx----- Original Message ----- From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxxTo: GUISpeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Date sent: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 09:28:32 -0400 (EDT) Subject: McTwit 2.0 released
http://EmpowermentZone.com/mtsetup.exe
McTwit is a powerful, accessible client on Windows for the
popular
networking site twitter.com. As reported widely, Twitter has
been key to
the sharing of breaking news by citizens, themselves (e.g.,
communication
by Iranians about human rights). McTwit offers nearly
comprehensive
access to Twitter capabilities, which are provided, not through a
generic
web browser interface, but through a dedicated Windows dialog
that is
completely accessible with screen reader programs used by blind
people
today. We can thereby participate fully in a popular
communications
medium, and benefit equally from a leading networking technology!
Since the last major announcement about McTwit, it has gained
many
improvements from collaborative efforts. As the author, I am
glad to work
with anyone interested in developing an extension that implementsadditional features. Two leading script developers for the most
popular
screen readers have developed extensions that are now distributed
with
McTwit, as well as available separately. Jeff Bishop has
developed
scripts for Window-Eyes users, available at https://www.gwmicro.com/Script_Central/Scripts/Script_Details/?sc
riptid=1244
Brian Hartgen has developed scripts for JAWS users, available at http://hartgen.org
Recently, the blind community has also produced several audiopresentations about new media, Twitter, and McTwit. A piece by
Erin Edgar
introduces Twitter from a blindness perspective at http://BlindCoolTech.com
He also appeared on ACB Radio at http://www2.acbradio.org/mainmenu/shows.php
Michael Lauf podcasted on accessible Twitter tools at http://serotalk.com/podcasts/TechChat016.mp3
Jonathan Mosen organized a panel on Twitter tools from a JAWS
perspective
at http://www.freedomscientific.com/FSCast/episodes/fscast030-may200
9.asp
Rich Cavallaro did an Accessible World training on Twitter at http://accessibleworld.org/category/site-categories/tek-talk-arch
ives
Mika Pyyhkala made a presentation on new media to blind computer
users at
http://www.vibug.org/audio/vbg0609-c.mp3
Feature enhancements in McTwit 2.0 include the following.
Managed tweets
that you bookmark as favorites. Review a chain of reply tweets.Temporarily save and then restore a list of items. Determine
whether
someone is following another person on Twitter. Forward a tweet
in an
email message. Select priority tweets based on criteria you
specify.
Exclude junk tweets based on other criteria. Update your Twitter
profile.
Users report that McTwit is working with JAWS, System Access, andWindow-Eyes on both 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows --
including XP,
Vista and Windows 7. Reports also confirm that McTwit runs on a
portable
media device. McTwit and its script extensions may be
conveniently
updated from the software, itself.
The free, friendly, and portable nature of McTwit can play a
useful role
at the upcoming conventions of the American Council of the Blind
and
National Federation of the Blind. Let me suggest the "hash tags"
#ACBCon
and #NFBCon to help connect conversations about these events!
Jamal Twitter screen name: JamalMazrui
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