[SaoMai] Fw: Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, June 4, 2009 - Volume 211

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Top Tech Tidbits - Volume 211
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Top Tech Tidbits - Volume 211
The Week's News in Adaptive Technology


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1) Fred's Head suggests that booksfree.com is similar in structure to Netflix, 
but it provides a subscription service for books on tapes and cd.
http://www.booksfree.com/ 

2) AlbumReminder.com is a site that tracks more than 140,000 artists so that 
you can receive information whenever they come out with a new recording.
http://www.albumreminder.com/ 

3) this Fred's Head posting is called Getting more out of Google and probably 
contains some resources you didn't know about.
http://www.fredshead.info/2006/12/getting-more-out-of-google.html 

4) Deal Waiter lets you specify a product, and then when its price lowers, you 
get e-mail or twitter notification.
http://dealwaiter.com/ 

5) Using the Accessible iPod is a new book by By Anna Dresner, available in 
electronic braille, DAISY, and paper print and Braille, each for $15, from 
National Braille Press. The DAISY version will play on the free demo of FS 
Reader, so anybody can listen to it on their computer with that program, as 
well as a couple other free DAISY programs which can be had.
http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/ACCIPOD.html 

6) On this week's installment of Innovations, we hear about the new updates 
from Dolphin Systems, new products from the Acapela group and more about the 
Yamaha Tyros keyboard. Innovations is first heard on GMT Tuesday at 17:00 with 
repeats on Thursday at 00:00, Friday at 14:00, Sunday at 09:00 on the Global 
Voice.
http://www.theglobalvoice.info>. 

7) The Eye-PAL and Eye-PAL Solo are the topics for Tek Talk on GMT Tuesday 8 
June. The Eye-PAL is a portable reading device designed for quick and effective 
reading.
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rsc9613dc89eb2 

8) A set of free JAWS scripts for Sibelius, a popular music composition 
program, continues to evolve. Current scripts work with version 5, which will 
still be sold even with version 6 now being sold. Version 6 contains many 
enhancements, with perhaps the greatest being that blind teachers and composers 
who have to create print scores will be able to do so with almost no sighted 
help.
http://www.musicaccess.co.uk 

9) EASI will offer a free online webinar on the new features of NFB Newsline on 
Tuesday, 16 June at 18:00 GMT. To register:
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/140743/introducing-nfb-newsline-online 

10) They will also offer a free webinar entitled Accessible Tables in Word and 
Ranges in Excel - June 24 at 18:00 GMT.This one will last 1.5 hours and offer 
hands-on practice. To register:
http://www.surveygizmo.com/s/133546/june-24-accessible-tables-in-word-and-ranges-in-excel
 

11) in Window-Eyes scripting updates, Chip Orange has written a script for 
programmers to use in the VBA environment of Microsoft Office
http://www.gwmicro.com/scripts/ms_office 

12) Jamal Mazrui has written a script that reads a random famous quote whenever 
Window-Eyes launches. The quotations come from
http://www.quotationspage.com
You can use the script to read more quotes or copy and save them. Different 
quotations are apparently offered by the site each day.
http://www.gwmicro.com/sc 

13) New JAWS scripts are available for the sound editor Goldwave, which has 
recently undergone an upgrade.
http://www.blind-geek-zone.net/Data/GoldWave5.52ScriptVersion1.58.zip 

14) Kathy Ann Murtha is offering a $25 seminar on the use of the ribbons of 
Office 2007 on Saturday, 6 June at 21:00 GMT, lasting until questions are 
answered. To register or for more information:
http://www.accesstechnologyinstitute.com/RibbonSeminar.html 

15) Read a New York Times article, Preparing to Sell E-Books, Google Takes on 
Amazon
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/01/technology/internet/01google.html 

16) Microsoft's Bing search engine is now out. For one viewpoint, read this 
article by Gizmo, entitled "Bing is to Google what the Zune is to the iPod: too 
little, too late."
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmosbest/~3/aUIqNGZc5mo/microsofts-new-bing-search-engine-now-launched.htm
 

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