From dandrews at visi.com Sat Dec 5 16:23:34 2009 From: dandrews at visi.com (David Andrews) Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 10:23:34 -0600 Subject: [Uabs] Last Chance to Help Braille Literacy with Coin Purchase Message-ID: Christmas Header The holiday season is upon us?a time when we turn our focus, more than any other part of the year, to giving. This year, give a gift that really counts?a future full of opportunity for a blind child! Today far too many blind children and adults in America are being refused Braille instruction by both schools and rehabilitation agencies, and many who are receiving a Braille education are given inadequate instruction. There is a way you can help. When you purchase the Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollar, not only will you receive the first U.S. coin to feature readable, tactile Braille, but $10 from the sale of each coin will also go to the National Federation of the Blind?s efforts to end this Braille literacy crisis. That?s a gift anyone would be proud to give. But time is running out! You have just a few days left to purchase this exceptional coin and leave your mark on this crisis. Visit the U.S. Mint?s Web site or www.braille.org, or call 1-800-USA-MINT (872-6468) by December 11, 2009, to give the gift of Braille literacy today. The United States Mint guarantees delivery by December 25, 2009, on any in-stock item, anywhere in the United States on orders placed by December 7, 2009, for standard delivery, and December 11, 2009, for express delivery. Orders over $300 will receive free expedited shipping. If you've already purchased the Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollar, consider making a matching gift to the ?Braille Readers are Leaders? campaign. It is a great way to multiply the impact of your purchase. We at the National Federation of the Blind thank you for your devotion to America?s blind and wish you the happiest of holiday seasons! Braille Coin (Black & White) To learn more about the 2009 Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollar, the Braille literacy crisis, and the Braille Readers are Leaders campaign, visit www.braille.org. National Federation of the Blind 200 East Wells Street at Jernigan Place Baltimore, Maryland 21230 (410) 659-9314 Fax (410) 659-5129 From dwhill at epix.net Sun Dec 6 05:00:42 2009 From: dwhill at epix.net (D.W. Hill) Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:00:42 -0600 Subject: [Uabs] PAD, NFB scholarship Now Available Message-ID: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT Dennis Sumlin, President Performing Arts Division of the National Federation of the Blind (917) 903-5650 dholston at nyc.rr.com www.padnfb.org Application Process Begins Scholarships for Blind Performing Arts Majors New York, NY (November 21, 2009): The non-profit Performing Arts Division of the National Federation of the Blind (PAD, NFB) is currently taking applications for its Mary Anne Parks Performing Arts Scholarship. The scholarship will be awarded at the NFB's annual convention July 3-8, 2010 in Dallas, Texas. The winner will receive $1,000 and an all-expense-paid trip to the convention. The scholarship is open to legally blind students (high school seniors through graduate school). Applicants must either be currently majoring in or planning to major in some form of the performing arts in the fall of 2010. The deadline is March 31, 2010. Applications are available to download at: www.padnfb.org Applicants will be judged on their performing arts achievements and excellence, performing arts-related aspirations and goals, academic excellence and community service endeavors. "Finalists," says Scholarship Coordinator Lisa Ostrow, from the Boston area, "will be contacted for a teleconference interview with the Scholarship Committee." "The Mary Anne Parks Performing Arts Scholarship," says PAD's President Dennis H.R. Sumlin "was created in memory of our late secretary, Mary Anne Parks, of Atlanta, Georgia. Mary Anne was a master's candidate and a dynamic leader who held several offices in the NFB. She died at age 30 in August of 2007 on her way to do volunteer teaching for Hands on Atlanta, when a car struck the van in which she was riding." To contact Scholarship Coordinator Lisa Ostrow, send an e-mail to: scholarships at padnfb.org ### About the National Federation of the Blind: With more than 50,000 members, the National Federation of the Blind is the largest and most influential membership organization of blind people in the United States. The NFB improves blind people's lives through advocacy, education, research, technology, and programs encouraging independence and self-confidence. It is the leading force in the blindness field today and the voice of the nation's blind. In January 2004 the NFB opened the National Federation of the Blind Jernigan Institute, the first research and training center in the United States for the blind led by the blind. -- Read my articles on American Chronicle: http://www.americanchronicle.com/authors/view/3885 Follow me on Twitter: www.twitter.com/dewhill Join Me on LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dwh99 Or, FaceBook: http://www.facebook.com/donna.w.hill. Hear clips from "The Last Straw" at: http://cdbaby.com/cd/donnahill Apple I-Tunes phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=259244374 Performing Arts Division of the National Federation of the Blind www.padnfb.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nabs.president at gmail.com Tue Dec 8 03:19:39 2009 From: nabs.president at gmail.com (Arielle Silverman) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:19:39 +1100 Subject: [Uabs] NABS December Bulletin! Message-ID: <85ff10070912071919l5ce9b27br3e2cbedb95001a7d@mail.gmail.com> national Association of Blind Students >From the Desk of the President December 7, 2009 In This Bulletin: 1. Check Out the Student Slate! 2. NABS On Facebook and Twitter! 3. Pennies for Pages! 4. Washington Seminar Update 5. 2010 NFB Scholarship Application Now Available! 6. State Division Announcements 1. Check Out the Student Slate! The National Association of Blind Students once again brings you the latest edition of the Student Slate, our quarterly newsletter. In this issue you will learn about the lives of a blind climatologist, substitute teacher, and student, as well as learn about the latest developments in legislation as we prepare for Washington Seminar. This issue is truly one-of-a-kind, and I give great appreciation to Karen Anderson, Domonique Lawless, and Sean Whalen for their diligence in recruiting and editing such a diverse and interesting set of articles. Please find the Slate attached to this message, and it will be posted on our Website, www.nabslink.org by the end of this week. 2. NABS on Facebook and Twitter: I'm pleased to announce that the National Association of Blind Students now has a page on Facebook and an account on Twitter! Become a fan of NABS on Facebook to stay in touch and communicate with other blind students across the country. Follow us on Twitter to receive announcements about what NABS is doing both nationally and in our state divisions. You can find us by searching for "National Association of Blind Students" on Facebook and "NABSLINK" on Twitter. Do you have a piece of news that you want us to post on Facebook and Twitter? Please send it to the membership committee by writing an email to Nabs.membership at gmail.com 3. Pennies for Pages: Sean Whalen, second vice-president of NABS, writes the following. For more information about the Braille Readers are Leaders contest, please visit www.braille.org Greetings to all members and friends of NABS, I am writing to announce and solicit assistance for an exciting new fundraising effort we are currently undertaking. The fundraiser is Pennies for Pages, and is being run in conjunction with the NFB?s Braille Readers are Leaders program. We believe that this fundraiser has a lot of potential. However, in order to realize this potential, we need help from all of you! The idea is this. Students, or anybody else who is interested in helping to raise money for Braille literacy and our national student division, can sign up to participate in the Braille Readers are Leaders program and then solicit donations from friends, family, or anybody really, for Braille pages read throughout the duration of the contest. Of course, donations of fixed sums are also gratefully accepted. If you are already participating in the Braille Readers are Leaders contest, you can simply find people to sponsor you for each page you read. If you are not yet signed up for the contest, no worries! The reading contest runs through January 4th, and registration can be submitted up until that point. It is by no means too late to get started! As an added incentive, NABS will be offering a $50 Amazon.com gift card to the participant who raises the most money. Donated funds can be accepted in cash or as checks made out to the National Association of Blind Students and can be given to our Treasurer, Nijat Worley, either in person at Washington Seminar or sent via postal mail. If you wish to participate or have any questions at all about the plan, please contact me (Sean Whalen) at either 608-332-4147 608-332-4147 or smwhalenpsp at gmail.com. I will be compiling the list of participants and would be happy to answer any questions which anybody might have. Half of any money we raise through this effort will go to the NFB to support Braille literacy programs and the other half will go to NABS. We all look forward to working together to raise money for and promote Braille literacy! Sincerely, Sean Whalen 4. Washington Seminar Update: On Sunday, January 31, 2010, the National Association of Blind Students will hold its annual all-day seminar in Washington, D.C. just before the opening of the NFB's annual Washington Seminar. The NABS seminar will take place from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Capitol hotel in Washington, D.C. On Sunday evening we will conclude our gathering with an informal dinner, mixer and an auction. Generally, our seminar consists of both speeches and breakout sessions concerning a variety of issues relevant to blind students. If there are particular topics that you'd like to see on the agenda this year, or things we've done in the past that you liked or didn't like, please let me know before the end of this month. Also, if you or someone you know has had an opportunity this year that you think other blind students might want to know about, like a job or a trip abroad, tell me that as well! 5. 2010 Scholarship Applications Now Available: Each year the National Federation of the Blind awards thirty scholarships to legally blind college and graduate students across the country. The scholarship includes a cash award ranging from $3000 to $12,000, plus a free trip to the NFB national convention and often a piece of assistive technology such as a KNFB Reader Mobile. The scholarship application for 2010 is now on the Web at www.nfb.org/scholarships Applications are due by March 31, 2010. Already won a national NFB scholarship? You can apply again and potentially win a second scholarship, also known as a TenBroek fellowship. In addition, many NFB affiliates offer scholarships to blind students. You needn't be an active member of the NFB to win. Contact your NFB state president for details. You can find a list of state affiliates and their contact information at http://www.nfb.org/nfb/State_and_Local_Organizations.asp Finally, there are lots of other scholarship resources available to blind and sighted students alike that are worth examining. Check out the "Scholars Hall" section of our website for details. 6. State Division Announcements: >From New Mexico: The New Mexico Association of Blind has been busy again this month. On November 21st, 5 of the students participated in Scuba Diving with the Cody Unser First Step Foundation! All of us who participated enjoyed the activity and hope to continue it. We went in a swimming pool and all of us had a good time! If anyone would like more information on the event, please contact me. I do not have any new information on the benefit nights we held last month, but I hope to have something. NMABS is going to be having their annual Christmas party in conjunction with our december monthly meeting on December 20 at 5:00 PM before the meeting begins at 7:00 MST. Tara Sena, President New Mexico Association of Blind Students >From the membership committee: Greetings from the Nabs membership committee. We would like to thank those of you who were able to attend our most recent conference call where we discussed the benefits of community service to self as well as the greater blindness community. This month, we hope that you will be able to join us for a fun and informative discussion on dating and relationships. The call will take place on Sunday, December the 13th at 7p.m. EST. We are pleased to have Special guest speakers LisaMaria Martinez and Antonio Guimaraes who will talk about their respective experiences on this topic. As well, we are excited to have fellow student and membership committee co-chair Janice Jeang serve as moderator on what will be a lively topic to be sure. Should you have any questions, or wish to take part and would like the call-in information; please do not hesitate to contact Janice Jeang at: Janice.jeang at gmail.com or Darian smith at: Dsmithnfb at gmail.com. And as always; keep a look out on the nabs list serve for more information about the conference call series, as well as other announcements from the membership committee. We look forward to seeing you all on the call in a few days! Warmest holiday wishes to you and yours, The National Association of Blind Students Membership committee. -- Arielle Silverman President, National Association of Blind Students Phone: 602-502-2255 Email: nabs.president at gmail.com Website: www.nabslink.org -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Student_Slate_Dec09.doc Type: application/msword Size: 110592 bytes Desc: not available URL: From RWest at nfb.org Tue Dec 8 12:36:01 2009 From: RWest at nfb.org (West, Renee) Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:36:01 -0600 Subject: [Uabs] Follow NFB-NEWSLINE on Twitter to get the freshest scoop! Message-ID: In order to better communicate with our subscribers, NFB-NEWSLINE is now on Twitter. Our posts, or "Tweets," which come out on a weekly basis generally, advise subscribers of new publications added and new features or system enhancements, such as the ability with NFB-NEWSLINE Online to view publications on our Web site or download them to your digital talking-book player. Occasionally we also post Tweets that bring attention to interesting articles that we feel subscribers might enjoy. If you would like to follow us, please visit http://twitter.com/NFB_NEWSLINE. For those of you unfamiliar with Twitter, it is a social networking site that consists of "microblogs," time- or topic-sensitive posts that are 140 characters or less. You may read our tweets on the Web or use one of many available Twitter clients, most of which are free to use. A podcast, called "Twitter from a Blindness Perspective," is available at www.blindcooltech.com and may be of help in learning more about the service. Below is a sampling of clients available: McTwit is a free, open-source desktop client for Twitter.com. The program is designed with productivity of keyboard users in mind. Additionally, if the JAWS, System Access, or Window-Eyes screen reader is active, some information is conveyed efficiently through direct speech messages. This client is available at www.mctwit.com. A more complete introduction to this client may be found at http://www.fredshead.info/2009/08/mctwit-accessible-interface-for-twitter.html. TwInbox: Formerly known as outTwit, this add-in to Microsoft Outlook 2003 or 2007 provides a method of integrating Twitter into your e-mail system. Tweets can be displayed in your Inbox or a designated folder. Outlook commands for Reply and Reply to All can be used to reply to messages as private, direct, messages or replies can be sent to the "timeline." Tweets can be manipulated and stored just like any other Outlook item. The advantage of this client, for those users who routinely have their e-mail open all day, is that it brings the Twitter experience into an application with which you are already familiar. TwInbox is available from Techhit at http://www.techhit.com. Further information on this client is available at http://www.fredshead.info/2009/12/tweet-from-outlook.html. Twittelator PRO is a low-cost application for the iPhone that allows you to utilize most Twitter functions, including the managing of multiple accounts. Twittelator Pro also offers a search feature, the ability to post shortened URLs, and the ability to differentiate direct messages from ordinary tweets. Visit http://www.stone.com/Twittelator for more information and downloading instructions. Qwitter: This client, mainly designed for use by the blind, provides a number of interesting features that make it appealing to power users. The program runs in the background and checks for new tweets at specified intervals, and keyboard commands are then used to review the new messages. Qwitter provides access to its interface from anywhere in the operating system, making it unnecessary to leave your current task to access new tweets. Qwitter presents different tweets in "buffers," which provide a way for you to access your timeline (showing all the messages from people you follow), replies (showing all messages with your @username in them), direct messages (messages sent privately to you), and sent (displaying messages you have sent). Additionally, Qwitter provides the ability to define search buffers, which will search the Twitter public timeline for a designated string and present them to you. The Qwitter client supports speech output directly to your screen access program, or uses a SAPI voice if no speech software is running. This program is available from http://www.qwitter-client.net. You can become more familiar with this client by accessing a podcast on the subject at http://www.lalrecordings.com/node/31. Tweets60 is a free Twitter client for Nokia S60 smartphones, and is compatible with the Talks screen reader. Tweets60 is the first free native Twitter application for Nokia S60, providing a simple and accessible way to manage your Twitter account on the go, providing access to most standard Twitter functionality on the move. Once installed Tweets60 is accessed through the application tab on your menu and will automatically connect to your Twitter account, showing you new tweets, direct messages, and your latest updates. You can then change your status, read the tweets of people you follow, re-tweet, and manage who you follow. You can even leave Tweets60 running in the background and it will automatically update. You may download this client from http://www.tweets60.com. Jawter is a tool that essentially turns your screen reader into a Twitter client and allows you to use Twitter with a minimum of fuss. You simply install it, set it up, and read your Twitter updates with hot keys that work anywhere in windows, wherever you are, and whatever you're doing. Your tweets can be navigated from within the screen reader, then there's no need to go launching separate programs just to see what your friends are saying. This client may be downloaded from: http://randylaptop.com/software/jawter-2. Blind Cool Tech has a podcast you can listen to in order to learn more about Jawter, available at http://media.libsyn.com/media/bct/bct1319Jawter.mp3. Twitterrific is a free application created for Mac users that lets you both read and publish posts or "tweets" to the Twitter community Web site. The application's user interface is clean, concise, and designed to take up a minimum of real estate on your Mac's desktop. You may access the download by visiting http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at nfbnewsline at nfb.org. From the NFB-NEWSLINE Team Renee West Manager, Marketing and Outreach Sponsored Technology Programs NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND 200 East Wells Street Baltimore MD 21230 Phone: (410) 659-9314 ext. 2411 Fax: (410) 659-5129 Websites: www.nfb.org; www.nfbnewsline.org; www.nfbnewslineonline.org There is a Braille literacy crisis in America. You can be part of the solution. Buy the Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollar now! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jsorozco at gmail.com Fri Dec 11 15:47:20 2009 From: jsorozco at gmail.com (Joe Orozco) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:47:20 -0500 Subject: [Uabs] Nominations of Young Female Social Entrepreneurs Invited for Gladys Marinelli Coccia Awards Message-ID: Nominations of Young Female Social Entrepreneurs Invited for Gladys Marinelli Coccia Awards Youth Service America is accepting nominations for the first Gladys Marinelli Coccia Awards to recognize two young female social entrepreneurs whose initiatives serve the common good. The awards were created in memory of Gladys Coccia, who began her entrepreneurial career when she was a young girl in West Virginia and later became a very successful businesswoman in Washington, D.C. To be eligible for the award, nominees must be between the ages of 14 and 17 on January 1, 2010; reside in the United States; have started her own social enterprise or organization; be supported by contributions of at least $1,000 (cash and/or in-kind); and have a business plan, including an itemized budget. Special consideration will be given to nominees from West Virginia and metropolitan Washington, D.C. Self-nominations are accepted. The award includes $2,000 for the awardee's social enterprise and travel, lodging, and registration expenses to the National Service Learning Conference in San Jose, March 24-27, 2010. The awardee will serve as a spokesperson for YSA's initiatives, will be invited to serve on the executive board of Girls Helping Girls, and will be provided access to YSA's resources to support and expand social enterprise. Program information and application are available at the YSA Web site. Contact: http://ysa.org/grants/announcements/coccia-award __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4677 (20091210) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com From dsmithnfb at gmail.com Sun Dec 13 23:32:12 2009 From: dsmithnfb at gmail.com (Darian Smith) Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:32:12 -0800 Subject: [Uabs] Nabs membership: dating and relationships conference call. Message-ID: <409c235c0912131532m14c340ffxe777862e9b8d0e2@mail.gmail.com> -- The National Federation of the Blind has launched a nationwide teacher recruitment campaign to help attract energetic and passionate individuals into the field of blindness education, and we need your help! To Get Involved go to: www.TeachBlindStudents.org "And if you will join me in this improbable quest, if you feel destiny calling, and see as I see, a future of endless possibility stretching before us; if you sense, as I sense, that the time is now to shake off our slumber, and slough off our fear, and make good on the debt we owe past and future generations, then I'm ready to take up the cause, and march with you, and work with you. Together, starting today, let us finish the work that needs to be done, and usher in a new birth of freedom on this Earth."- Baraq Obama Just a friendly reminder to all that nabs will be holding a conference call in a little under an hour covering dating and relationships Call-in number 712.775.7100 passcode 257963 Hope to see you all there! Darian smith Nabs membership Co-Chair From dsmithnfb at gmail.com Mon Dec 14 00:41:10 2009 From: dsmithnfb at gmail.com (Darian Smith) Date: Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:41:10 -0800 Subject: [Uabs] Nabs membership call: dating and relationships is now happening! Message-ID: <409c235c0912131641w45c7a6advd4308bd5e4459ca7@mail.gmail.com> Hi all, right now we ar having our membership call talking about dating and relationships. Join Janice jeang, Lissamaria Martinez and a host of others on this call as it is happening right now. hope to talk to you on the call Darian -- The National Federation of the Blind has launched a nationwide teacher recruitment campaign to help attract energetic and passionate individuals into the field of blindness education, and we need your help! To Get Involved go to: www.TeachBlindStudents.org "And if you will join me in this improbable quest, if you feel destiny calling, and see as I see, a future of endless possibility stretching before us; if you sense, as I sense, that the time is now to shake off our slumber, and slough off our fear, and make good on the debt we owe past and future generations, then I'm ready to take up the cause, and march with you, and work with you. Together, starting today, let us finish the work that needs to be done, and usher in a new birth of freedom on this Earth."- Baraq Obama From djd at radio360.us Tue Dec 15 18:07:39 2009 From: djd at radio360.us (David, The Radio360 Station Manager) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:07:39 -0500 Subject: [Uabs] Help Radio360 Make A Child's Wish Come True This Christmas Message-ID: Seasons Greetings! Please consider sending this along to anyone you think would be interested. THis is being sent out cause I believe this is an awesome holiday project and cause being promoted here, and thought perhaps you'd feel the same way. This is David Dunphy, station manager for Radio360 http://www.radio360.us and I am here to tell you about our first major Radio360 event, The Radio360 Holiday Giveaway! By participating in this giveaway, you have the opportunity to win some cool prizes including A choice between an Amazon gift card or a 16-gigabyte USB flash drive You could win one out of a possible two Netflix subscriptions An Olive garden gift certificate Software to protect your computer from spyware and viruses And more... And by participating, you will have the chance to make sure someone's Christmas wish comes true for the holidays! Below is a link to the Radio360 contest page for the Holiday Giveaway: http://www.radio360.us/holidaygiveaway On there, you will see a PayPal button you can click to donate as little as 1 dollar or as much as you would like up through the 21st of December at 8 PM eastern time. And all money collected during this time will be given as a gift by Radio360 to The Make A Wish Foundation. The Make A Wish Foundation grants wishes made by children with life-threatening medical conditions. More info can be found about them at http://www.wish.org What kind of prize you get does not factor in how much you donate. So even if you only give in 1 dollar, you could still win one of the Netflix subscriptions, just as an example All I ask is that when or if you decide to make your donation, you email me your name and email address so that I can put you on the prize list. Based on the list of names of people who donate, prize winners will be randomly selected by the computer on the 21st of December during Part 2 of The Djd Invasion Christmas Gala on Radio360, which will start at 8 PM eastern. And if we end up with more prizes than those who donate, then we'll start finding ways to give the remaining ones away on the show. Either way, people will have a shot to win, and you'll be a winner anyway, by helping a child's wish to come true this holiday season! And you do not need a PayPal account to donate. You can use a credit card if you prefer. Don't want to or can't donate cash but want to contribute a prize to add to what we have already? Contact me and let me know. If you have any questions about the giveaway, or if you're not clear about something, feel free to email me at djd at radio360.us Happy holidays, and let's try to give a child hope by helping to make his/her wish come true this holiday season. Best regards and happy holidays! >From David Dunphy, Radio360 Station Manager http://www.radio360.us __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4690 (20091215) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jim at knfbreader.com Tue Dec 22 21:37:14 2009 From: jim at knfbreader.com (James Gashel) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:37:14 -0600 Subject: [Uabs] More phones and trial version now supported by KNFB Reader Mobile Message-ID: From: James Gashel [mailto:jim at knfbreader.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 12:45 PM To: Reader users list (reader-users at nfbnet.org) Subject: More phones and trial version now supported All -- Please see the notice below which announces a new release of the Mobile Reader software. This release is limited to adding support for several additional Nokia phones and to allow use of a trial license for a 14 day free evaluation period. This release does not include other new features, such as color recognition and glare detection, which have been discussed and are still being developed. Please note that installation of the release announced below is not considered necessary to replace version 6.1.11 since new functionality for the Mobile Reader itself is not being added. NOTICE OF NEW SUPPORTED PHONES AND TRIAL VERSION NOW AVAILABLE This notice is being distributed to announce two important developments intended to make K-NFB Reading Technology's Mobile Reader products more widely available throughout the United States and around the world. These changes have also required a new release, version 6.3.1, of the Mobile Reader software now available for download at knfbreader.com. Please note that this release does not contain new features or functionality aside from supporting additional phones and allowing the software to operate for a time-limited trial period. Therefore, installation of this version is not considered necessary for current users. NEW SUPPORTED PHONES The phones now supported with the initial release of version 6.3.1 are the Nokia E71 (best used with the kReader Mobile), N79, N82, N85, N86, N95 8 GB, N95 North American model, and the Nokia 6220 Classic. Please note that changes in phone models and availability must be expected. However, phones which become unavailable from suppliers will continue to be supported for use with the Mobile Reader software when changes are made to support newer phones and models which become available. This applies at present to the N82 and the 6220 Classic. For more information on each of these devices please visit our supported phones web page at http://www.knfbreader.com/phone_info.php This page includes important information about each supported phone as well as links to obtain detailed specifications. Please check back periodically to keep up to date as more phones are added to the list. Checking with various suppliers for availability and price is recommended. TRIAL VERSION We have been asked to create a means for trying out either the kReader Mobile or the knfbReader Mobile before making a purchasing decision, which is now possible with version 6.3.1. The trial is a full version of the kReader Mobile or the knfbReader Mobile, whichever is chosen, but the activation period is limited to 14 days. The procedures used to install and activate the trial version are identical to the purchased product, but a special trial license must be obtained from an authorized Mobile Reader dealer http://knfbreader.com/purchase.php or from K-NFB Reading Technology's technical support service by email at: support at knfbreader.com or by phone at: (877) 547-1500. Best Regards, James Gashel Vice President of Business Development K-NFB Reading Technology, Inc. Direct phone: (720) 878-4248 Fax: (781) 263-9999 Skype: james.gashel email: jim at knfbreader.com http://www.knfbreader.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dsmithnfb at gmail.com Sat Dec 26 02:23:51 2009 From: dsmithnfb at gmail.com (Darian Smith) Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:23:51 -0800 Subject: [Uabs] (no subject) Message-ID: <409c235c0912251823q3acb3467m48115f1da428861c@mail.gmail.com> -- The National Federation of the Blind has launched a nationwide teacher recruitment campaign to help attract energetic and passionate individuals into the field of blindness education, and we need your help! To Get Involved go to: www.TeachBlindStudents.org "And if you will join me in this improbable quest, if you feel destiny calling, and see as I see, a future of endless possibility stretching before us; if you sense, as I sense, that the time is now to shake off our slumber, and slough off our fear, and make good on the debt we owe past and future generations, then I'm ready to take up the cause, and march with you, and work with you. Together, starting today, let us finish the work that needs to be done, and usher in a new birth of freedom on this Earth."- Baraq Obama From dsmithnfb at gmail.com Sat Dec 26 02:31:26 2009 From: dsmithnfb at gmail.com (Darian Smith) Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2009 18:31:26 -0800 Subject: [Uabs] Best Holiday Wishes Message-ID: <409c235c0912251831sf436452xaeaf3c7c33b1e8e5@mail.gmail.com> (appoligies for the blank, hit the wrong button:) ) I Just wanted to Wish all of you The Best of holiday Wishes. I hope that you and your loved ones enjoy a peaceful happy and healthy holiday season. May you reflect on your troubles and triumphs, loves and losses, sweets and sours and know that through it all you've grown wiser and stronger for it all. I truly hope this year has prought you great joy and growth and that the next brings even more of the same. Best wishes as we exit this decade and look twardsa new one, Darian Smith -- The National Federation of the Blind has launched a nationwide teacher recruitment campaign to help attract energetic and passionate individuals into the field of blindness education, and we need your help! To Get Involved go to: www.TeachBlindStudents.org "And if you will join me in this improbable quest, if you feel destiny calling, and see as I see, a future of endless possibility stretching before us; if you sense, as I sense, that the time is now to shake off our slumber, and slough off our fear, and make good on the debt we owe past and future generations, then I'm ready to take up the cause, and march with you, and work with you. Together, starting today, let us finish the work that needs to be done, and usher in a new birth of freedom on this Earth."- Baraq Obama