Top Tech Tidbits - Volume 204
The Week's News in Access Technology
Distributed by Flying Blind, LLC
http://www.flying-blind.com/
For questions and comments regarding Tidbits, please e-mail Dean Martineau at dean@topdotenterprises.com. Dean Martineau provides adaptive technology training by phone, online, and in person, with flexible arrangements, and at affordable prices.
1) From Fred's Head, learn about a new audio game, Rail Facer.
http://www.blindadrenaline.com/
2) Cast Roller is one of several services for finding podcasts online, and this one includes some social networking features.
http://www.castroller.com/
3) This Fred's Head post concerns the QuickLook Basic Portable Video Magnifier
http://www.fredshead.info/2009/04/quicklook-basic-portable-video.html
4) Buttercupreader is a Daisy book reader from New Zealand. It is web-based, and is currently in beta test.
http://www.buttercupreader.net/
5) This Fred's Head post is called Sacred Texts: Where to Get Them in Alternate Media
http://www.fredshead.info/2007/03/sacred-texts-where-to-get-them-in.html
6) Finally, out prolific blog tells about an informative and entertaining site for finding out how much different services and activities cost.
http://www.whatitcosts.com/
7) Back on the spirituality theme, SeroTalk Tech Chat 11 is entitled Using Technology to Pursue Our Faith
http://serotalk.com/2009/04/10/serotalk-tech-chat-11-using-technology-to-pursue-our-faith/
8) In its latest promotion, Serotek is offering $200 off its System Access Mobile if your Software Maintenance Agreement from a major screen reader has expired.
http://serotalk.com/2009/04/15/200-reasons-not-to-purchase-an-sma/
9) SeroTalk Podcast 12 describes itself as the Latest News and All Things Radio Podcast
http://serotalk.com/2009/04/14/serotalk-podcast-12-with-the-latest-news-and-all-things-radio-podcast/
10) The NFB Access Technology blog now hosts several interviews conducted at the CSUN conference as well as accounts of some of their team's activities there.
http://www.nfb.org/nfb/Access_Technology_Blog.asp?SnID=1332588961
11) Humanware's Classmate Reader will be the topic of discussion and demonstration for Tek Talk on GMT Tuesdeay 21 April at 00:00.
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rsc9613dc89eb2
12) Jamal Mazrui has developd a command-line Twitter client called McTwitt,
http://EmpowermentZone.com/McTwit.zip
13) Cooking with Ken and Cindy will be a regular online cooking program providing tips and recipes for bind cooks. The first episode will take place on GMT Sunday, 26 April at 23:00.
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs5affc3cfa191
14) The edition of Bill Boules' Friday Morning podcast for this week will provide a minicourse on text mesaging and will also cover version 4 of the Talks and Zooms screen reader and magnifier for Symbian phones.
http://www.gcast.com/u/billboules/main.xml
Would you like to receive text-only versions of the Tidbits and Flying Blind, LLC Newsletters? If so, find the link at the bottom of every Newsletter titled "Update Profile/E-Mail Address", and check this newly-available option.
Feel free to forward individual Tidbits, or the entire tidbits issue, to interested people (but make sure they don't already receive it; a lot do!) When doing this, please have the courtesy to cite your source, perhaps directing them to the tidbits website (see below.)
Tidbits is intentionally concise, but I know a lot of people don't understand many of the items because little explanation is given. If a Tidbit brings up a question in your mind, feel free to ask, and I'll answer as time, knowledge and inclination permit.
Visit the Tidbits page at http://www.topdotenterprises.com/tidbits.htm where you can subscribe to the RSS feed and grab back issues. All that welcome information for future issues can come to me at dean@topdotenterprises.com.
People can subscribe to Tidbits via e-mail: tttt-join@topdotenterprises.com (Make sure to get all 4 T's into the address!)
![]() | Flying Blind, LLC | 955 Pembrook Road | Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44121 | ![]() |