Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, October 3, 2013 - Volume 425
The Week's News in Access Technology

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Greetings,

1) Time to catch up on informative tech instruction from the HowToGeek site:

How Do You Remove a Default File Association in Windows 7?
http://www.howtogeek.com/171932/how-do-you-remove-a-default-file-association-in-windows-7/

RAM Is Cheap So Why Don't We Run Everything From It?
http://www.howtogeek.com/171500/ram-is-cheap-so-why-dont-we-run-everything-from-it/

Do You Really Have to Pay for Ringtones?
http://www.howtogeek.com/172202/ask-htg-do-you-really-have-to-pay-for-ringtones/

10 Ways You Can Customize Your Windows Taskbar:
http://www.howtogeek.com/172466/10-ways-you-can-customize-your-windows-taskbar/

How to Know When It's Time to Replace Your Laptop's Battery:
http://www.howtogeek.com/172362/how-to-know-when-its-time-to-replace-your-laptops-battery/

7 Tips For Using Multiple Hard Drives With Windows:
http://www.howtogeek.com/172545/7-tips-for-using-multiple-hard-drives-with-windows/

How to Unlock a Locked Cell Phone and Why You Might Want To:
http://www.howtogeek.com/173049/how-to-unlock-a-locked-cell-phone-and-why-you-might-want-to/

What Does CCleaner Do and Should You Use It?
http://www.howtogeek.com/172820/beginner-geek-what-does-ccleaner-do-and-should-you-use-it/

2) This New AppleVis Guide is called "Tips For Improving Battery Life in iOS 7":
http://www.applevis.com/guides/ios/tips-improving-battery-life-ios-7 AppleVis

4) Tactile Screen protectors for iPhone 5s and 5c are now available from SpeedDots:
http://www.speeddots.com/

5) The new book, "Reading Kindle Books on Your iOS Device: A Quick Reference Guide" is available in various formats for $6.00 from National Braille Press:
http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/KINDLE.html

6) Learn about accessible prescription drug labeling, and other tools for staying organized, from EnVision America, on Tek Talk on GMT Tuesday, 8 October at 00:00:
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rsc9613dc89eb2

7) Now in beta, the Web Reader for ZoomText for Mac extracts just the important content from a busy webpage and reads it back using one of the built-in, high quality voices already on your Mac:
http://www.aisquared.com/news/more/zoomtext_mac_now_with_webreader/

8) The Droid Cast is a blog and podcast on android accessibility for the blind and visually impaired, touching on a little of iOS and Mac as well:
http://www.thedroidcast.squarespace.com/

9) Some of these "Top 28 iOS 7 Battery Life Saving Tips" detract from some of what makes your iDevice accessible and useful, but you might be able to implement some of them:
http://www.redmondpie.com/top-28-ios-7-battery-life-saving-tips-guide/

10) This article, "Talking Windows Pre-installation Environment: Background and Limitations", is for those wishing to understand and perhaps assist with this most worthy project:
http://blog.bryansmart.com/2013/09/26/talking-windows-pre-installation-environment-background-and-limitations/

11) The $69 "iPad in the Classroom Webinar Series" is available from AFB:
http://www.afb.org/store/Pages/ShoppingCart/ProductDetails.aspx?ProductId=EiPadinClassroomSeries&ruling=Yes

12) George McKenzie and Byron Lee have yet another blog post on the Horizons for the Blind website, this one is a "Quick Tour of the BARD Mobile App for iOS":
http://www.horizons-blind.org/?p=1143

13) Wrapping up with audio content:

We have episode 15 of High Contrast:
http://serotalk.com/2013/09/27/high-contrast-episode-15-its-all-about-the-photons/

And also from the SPN people comes SeroTalk Podcast #171:
http://serotalk.com/2013/10/02/serotalk-podcast-171-ricky-gets-her-wish/

Web and Computer Accessibility, and the British Computer Association for the Blind, are topics for this week's "Eyes on Success Podcast #1340":
http://www.eyesonsuccess.net/

From BGZ come HP G61 Laptop:
http://www.blind-geek-zone.net/hp-g61-laptop/

Zoom H6 Recorder Review:
http://www.blind-geek-zone.net/zoom-h6-recorder-review/

Using Talking WinPE Mega Disk to Install Windows 7:
http://www.blind-geek-zone.net/using-talking-winpe-mega-disk-to-install-windows-7/

AmbuTech Eye Glasses Demonstration:
http://www.blind-geek-zone.net/ambutech-eye-glasses-demonstration/

Talking WinPE Demonstration:
http://www.blind-geek-zone.net/talking-winpe-demonstration/

Finally, AppleVis offers "Using the Camera on your iOS Device to Redeem an iTunes Gift Card"
http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/using-camera-your-ios-device-redeem-itunes-gift-card

The New iPhone 5c and Walk-Through of the Initial Setup Process for VoiceOver Users:
http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/new-iphone-5c-and-walk-through-initial-setup-process-voiceover-users

We read you loud and clear: A Demonstration of the new BARD Mobile App:
http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/we-read-you-loud-and-clear-demonstration-new-bard-mobile-app

Activating, Accessing and Using Handwriting Mode in iOS 7:
http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/activating-accessing-and-using-handwriting-mode-ios-7

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