[Nfbofsc] FW: Blind Planet, Dan's tip for February 26 2014

Wed Feb 26 23:46:14 UTC 2014

Steve and Shannon Cook

Today I married my best friend.  

The one that I laugh with, live for, love.

October 11, 2003 

From: dan thompson [mailto:dthompson5 at mchsi.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2014 10:15 AM
To: dan thompson
Subject: Blind Planet, Dan's tip for February 26 2014

Blind Planet

Note:  The start of each section in this document is denoted by an asterisk.
Using the find/replace feature of a word processer will allow one to move
between the sections by inserting an asterisk in the find edit field.

*Blind Planet labels itself as "Your one-stop resource for anything
blindness related," and 

contains a wealth of technology-related material: 

 <http://blind-planet.com/> http://blind-planet.com/

* excerpt from Blind Planet HomePage:

" Welcome to The Blind Planet! The Blind Planet is a rapidly-growing web
site that offers a lot of valuable information for the blind community, and
/ or for those people who are interested in learning about blindness and how
blind people go about their daily lives. Regardless of whether you are
blind, sighted, a novice or a professional at technology, or are just
searching for help and / or information on a particular topic, you will
definitely find the Blind Planet to be one of your favorite web sites very
quickly.

I have a variety of material available for you to browse through. You will
find many audio podcasts and tutorials on different topics. These can range
from software and hardware reviews / tutorials on different software
programs and hardware devices that blind people use on a daily basis to
sound-seeing tours of places such as museums, parks, etc. You will find
audio files from not only myself, but I post audio files that others create
as well so you can hear about the experience of other blind individuals in
the community. The Blind Planet is a community-driven site, which means that
the growth of the site depends heavily on its users and contributions from
the blind community. You can even submit your own audio files to the site
yourself. There are links to many blindness-related web sites that focus on
specific topics related to blindness, as well as links to many
blindness-related mailing lists where you can ask questions on certain
topics and make new friends with others in the blind community. I have also
compiled a constantly-growing list of documents and programs that I've found
on the internet over time that you may find useful.

I also offer one-on-one training and technical support on many popular
computer software programs at very low and reasonable rates. If you are in
need of training or support, please check out the training and support area
of the site for additional information."

*Orientation Discription of the Blind Planet HomePage:

>From top to bottom, screenreader users can move through the headings  by
pressing the letter H.  These headings include: 

Welcome to the Blind Planet

Subscribe to the Blind Planet Podcast RSS Feed

I have an RSS feed that you can put into your podcatching client to get the
latest audio content from my site. The link to the audio podcast feed is:

http://www.blind-planet.com/feed/podcast

User Submissions

If you have always wanted to be able to share your podcasts with others but
did not have a place to host them, or if you simply did not know how to do
it, you've come to the right place! Blind Planet will host your podcast for
you for free. I have a very simple process for you to upload your submission
so that it can be made available to other site visitors. Simply
<http://blind-planet.com/podcast-submissions> activate the link that says,
"activate this link to visit the podcast submission page",  or click on the
"Submissions" link in the site's navigation bar to get there. You will be
presented with a form you can use to upload your podcast. Once your upload
is complete, your submission must be manually reviewed and approved by a
site administrator before it goes live on the site. Once this is done, you
will receive an email informing you when it is publicly available on the
site for others to listen to.

Audio Podcasts and Tutorials

My  <http://blind-planet.com/audio-postings> podcast section found here:

http://blind-planet.com/audio-postings/ 

contains many podcasts and tutorials on many different subjects. These
include reviews and demonstrations of many popular software programs and
hardware devices that are used in the blind community. You will also find
other useful information such as cooking podcasts, sound-seeing tours and
more!

News Aggregator

The  <http://blind-planet.com/aggregator> news aggregator is a system that
checks various internet sites for blindness-related news every hour, and if
new content is available, downloads it to the Blind Planet for you to read
in the news aggregator section at your convenience.

The direct link found on my HomePage is:

 <http://blind-planet.com/aggregator/> http://blind-planet.com/aggregator/

 The news aggregator also has it's own RSS feed which you can add to your
RSS reader. The URL to the news aggregator's RSS feed is

 <http://www.blind-planet.com/aggregator/rss>
http://www.blind-planet.com/aggregator/rss

The Blind Planet News Aggregator is your hub to all of the latest news about
the blind community.

Web Links

I've compiled a list of  <http://blind-planet.com/resources> resources,
found here:

http://blind-planet.com/resources/ 

which include links to many different places on the internet. These links
lead to many useful blindness-related web sites, friends' sites, blogs,
informational web sites, shopping web sites for blindness-related items,
screen-reader manufacturers / developer sites, scripts, utilities,
accessible games, programming sites, audio-related web sites, podcasts,
tutorials and lots of other cool stuff!

Software Programs

My  <http://blind-planet.com/programs> software programs section contains
many useful software programs, scripts and utilities.   A direct link to
these offerings is:

 <http://blind-planet.com/programs/> http://blind-planet.com/programs/

If you have a program that you would like to see added to this list, please
contact me and let me know.

Training and Technical Support

If you would like customized one-on-one training and / or technical support
on almost any PC-related issue, please check out my
<http://blind-planet.com/training-and-support> training and technical
support page, found here:

 <http://blind-planet.com/training-and-support/>
http://blind-planet.com/training-and-support/

 I offer training and technical support at a very low and reasonable rate of
just $25.00 per hour.

Donations

If you would like to help by making a contribution to the Blind Planet web
site, please visit our donations page found here:

http://blind-planet.com/donations/

For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is
stronger than men. For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were
wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were
of noble birth. But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the
wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong 

1 Corinthians 1:25-27
<http://christianity.about.com/od/faqhelpdesk/p/English-Standard-Version.htm
> (ESV) 

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