[nfbwatlk] FW: Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, April 30, 2009 - Volume 206

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Top Tech Tidbits - Volume 206
The Week's News in Adaptive Technology

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Greetings! 

1) US citizens have better access to downloadable electronic books this week
than they had before. Beginning today, the National Library Services
launches its BARD (Braille and Audio Reading Download) site as previously
mentioned:
https://nlsbard.loc.gov
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2) New this week is the ability for members of Recording for the Blind and
Dyslexic to download DAISY books from their site. Previously, users have
been able to download protected Windows Media files which were not handy to
use, but now DAISY versions of their books can be downloaded and played on
any player equipped to handle RFB&D books:
http://support.rfbd.org/audioplus/
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3) In the April edition of FSCast, the Freedom Scientific podcast, learn
about the latest update to MAGic, about the Say MAGic package that gives
MAGic users access to speech recognition via Naturally Speaking, and about
the Skype scripts for versions 3.8 and 4 and the pros and cons of upgrading
to version 4.
http://podcast.freedomscientific.com/FSCast/episodes/fscast029-april2009
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4) Petro, long-time supporter of Applian Technologies, has created a web
site containing interviews with company personnel, tutorials and discount
codes for product purchases. these products enable recording of many kinds
of streaming audio.
http://www.applian.com/Podcasts/applian-info.html
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5) Gw Micro is offering an online free training about how to obtain, use and
personalize scripts (not how to write them.) This training will be held on
Friday, 22 May at 15:00 GMT. They've already had one session fill up, so if
you might want to take this, you should e-mail as soon as possible.
jeremy at gwmicro.com 

6) Tek Talk will feature discussion of the Technology Courses taught by
hadley School for the Blind on GMT Tuesday, 5 May at 00:00.
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rsc9613dc89eb2
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7) Jamal Mazrui has enhanced his accessible interface to Twitter, making it
easier and more powerful. It's called McTwit, and you can get version 1.0,
as well presumably as future versions here:
http://EmpowermentZone.com/mtsetup.exe
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8) System Access and SAMNet Tips and Hotkeys is the topic for SeroTalk Tech
chat 13
http://serotalk.com/2009/04/24/serotalk-tech-chat-13-system-access-and-samne
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9) This post from Fred's Head is entitled Improve Your Wireless Network
http://www.fredshead.info/2007/05/improve-your-wireless-network.html
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10) Version 1.3 of J-Tools, the product from T&T Consultancy which provides
additional functionality for JAWS has now been released. It contains support
for Firefox, OutTwit (for use with the Twitter social networking site), and
usability enhancements for Microsoft Outlook 2003 and 2007.
http://www.tandt-consultancy.com/pages/j-tools_information.php
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11) The Free YouTube to MP3 Converterlets you turn YouTube videos into sound
files.
http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/products/dvd/Free-YouTube-to-MP3-Converter.htm
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12) Rigel Technology is offering four of their two-hour $75 online trainings
in May. Each starts at 21:00 GMT. They also sell many of these as recordings
for the same price: Wednesday, 6 May: Backups; Friday, 13 May: sharing data
between devices and with friends; Tuesday, 19 May: Networking 101; Thursday,
28 May: Using Microsoft tools to create web pages.
http://www.rigeltechnology.com
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13) Gw Micro has teamed with a company called Tenacity to make office phone
systems accessible to blind users.
http://www.accessaphone.com/
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14) Until 1 July, Humanware is lowering the price on its SmartView Xtend
video magnifier, which they recommend for classroom use. You can save $695,
buying the machine for $2,000.
http://www.humanware.com
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15) Ai Squared is offering its customers the chance to earn Amazon rewards
and their friends to get a discount on ZoomText. To take part, e-mail
rproskin at aisquared.com 

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