[Electronics-Talk] Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, April 27, 2017 - Volume 608

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Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, April 27, 2017 - Volume 608

The Week's News in Adaptive Technology

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Dear Rolando,

1) Hear about the Google suite of products, and about developments at Mystic Access, on Tek Talk on GMT Tuesday, 2 May at 00:00:
http://bit.ly/1MqEtXv 

2) The NVDA team has some visionary plans for the future, including ways to intelligently inform us about "clickable" elements, a more modern and flexible speech code and more:
http://bit.ly/2pk2Ouk 

3) "Apple Users Can Now Download and Read Books From Bookshare in iBooks:"
http://bit.ly/2pBGDCT 

4) Version 2.7.3 of the KNFB Reader App for iOS adds a potentially useful feature for fans of physical buttons:
http://bit.ly/2po7KjH 

5) The device featured in this article, the Bluetooth Enabled Instant Pot, is indeed cool, and blind cooks can take advantage of all aspects of it:
http://bit.ly/2q9RNyq 

6) Attention all blind guitar players! There appears to be an accessible guitar tuner:
http://bit.ly/2oLjJE1 

7) For Windows users, here's "How to Use MS High Contrast:"
http://bit.ly/2oOpscW 

8) Here is more information about the accessible Zoom video conferencing platform:
http://bit.ly/2qgRe2g 

9) We would love reports on this: "The New Touchable Ink from Samsung Allows Any Laser Printer to Print Braille:"
http://bit.ly/2po0fte 

10) You can now access over 5 million recipes through Google Assistant:
http://bit.ly/2qgLCos 

11) The latest iAccessibility Podcast concerns the Windows 10 Creator's Update:
http://bit.ly/2pBpU2p 

12) Virtual Vision technologies has a podcast with existing episodes focusing on the iOS News app, BlindSquare and KNFB Reader, among others:
http://bit.ly/2oLsQ7x 

13A) Taylor who produced the XCode Podcast announced last week, has an RSS feed for future announcements:
http://bit.ly/2pkkdTm 

13B) As well as a new link to that original podcast (MP3):
http://bit.ly/2qh7Fvz 

14A) We have two demonstrations of Office Lens. Listen to this short podcast about the Free OCR App from Microsoft:
http://bit.ly/2oLl5Pd 

14B) And a demo from ViTalk:
http://bit.ly/2po9dGB 

15) And we have a Talking Typer for iOS Review:
http://bit.ly/2pkiihL 

16) We can remind you about Blind Bargains Qast #97:
http://bit.ly/2oOjBV8 

17) Announcing the start of a new series on Audio Pizza: "Getting Started with Reaper, The Popular Amp Accessible Audio Editing Software:"
http://bit.ly/2oyEcAw 

18) In Episode #1718 of Eyes on Success, we discover the rich Helen Keller Archive:
http://bit.ly/2p6t5h5

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