Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, August 2, 2012 - Volume 364
The Week's News in Access Technology

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Greetings,

1) Adaptive Technology Snippets from New Zealand are now available on the web.
http://www.rnzfb.org.nz/members/useful-resources/adaptive-technology-snippets

2) On Main Menu this week, airing at 01:00 GMT Saturday and repeating throughout that day, there will be a demonstration of the Cash Manager Package and a discussion of the dictation feature of Mountain Lion.
http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream

3) Here is this week's collection of podcasts:

Several seminars from Sight Village are available:
http://www.team-fm.com/sv2go

Fifteen initial Mountain Lion Demos
http://davidwoodbr.podbean.com/

Tech Access DemoCast, Episode 9 "Kindle For PC":
http://techaccessweekly.com/democast/2012/07/30/ta-democast-9-kindle-for-pc/

From Applevis, we have: Type Brailler Learn Braille: Helps You Learn to Read and Write Braille:
http://www.applevis.com/podcasts/episodes/type-brailler-learn-braille-helps-you-learn-read-and-write-braille

Worder: A Challenging Word Game for iOS
http://www.applevis.com/podcasts/episodes/worder-challenging-word-game-ios

Keep Up-to-date With the Latest Action from London 2012 with the Official Results App for the Olympics:
http://www.applevis.com/podcasts/episodes/keep-date-latest-action-london-2012-official-results-app-olympic-and-paralympic

Voicebook VO: Designed to Make Basic Facebook Functionality Accessible to VoiceOver users:
http://www.applevis.com/podcasts/episodes/voicebook-vo-designed-make-basic-facebook-functionality-accessible-voiceover-users

And finally, find out how to use flipboard on the iPad.
http://www.victortsaran.net/content/using-flipboard-ipad

4) From Jeffrey's Soapbox, we have these blog posts:

A Blind Trek Through the BlackBerry Patch with the Blackberry Screen Reader:
http://blog.blackspheretech.com/?p=148

And A Blind Trek Through Android, Part 1: Unwrapping the Jelly Bean (Getting Started):
http://blog.blackspheretech.com/?p=135

5) This article is called "Take a Memo: Ten Tips for Successful Voice Dictation":
http://tidbits.com/article/13156

6) The VoiceOver manual for Mountain Lion is at:
http://help.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/10.8/English.lproj/index.html

7) This is an article about the popular radio service TuneIn:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/24/tunein-tesla-model-s/

8) This one is called "How Blind Photographers Like Chris Holmes Are Overcoming The Odds To Produce Stunning Images":
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/07/16/blind-photography_n_1676884.html

9) Learn about Alt, a workflow accelerator, on Tek Talk on GMT Tuesday, 21 August at 00:00.
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rsc9613dc89eb2

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