Top Tech Tidbits - Volume 262
The Week's News in Access Technology

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1) The Mac-cessibility Network is a good site to follow for news about all things Apple and accessibility.
http://maccessibility.net/
Their latest Mac-Cessibility Round Table podcast discusses the new iPhone upgrade and operating system.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/maccessibility-news/~3/hLvWB6Uhguw/

2) Apple announces the Release of Mac OS X 10.6.4 with Braille Display Improvements and more.
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/maccessibility-news/~3/pf7Fd5rZ-Bg/

3) From Fred's Head, we learn of a site that lets you look up products on Amazon by size to see if they fit your space.
http://www.fredshead.info/2010/06/look-up-amazon-products-by-size.html

4) This Fred's Head post is called "Burn CD Images with ISOBuddy".
http://www.fredshead.info/2010/06/burn-cd-images-with-isobuddy.html

5) Tek Talk will feature the latest about the Victor Reader Stream, on GMT Tuesday 22 June at 00:00.
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rsc9613dc89eb2

6) Jamal Mazrui has updated his JAWS scripts for the Thunderbird e-mail client to version 2.6. These scripts come highly recommended and make Thunderbird a viable e-mail program to use for JAWS users.
http://EmpowermentZone.com/tb_scr.exe
He has also upgraded his FSMax scripts for Firefox:
http://EmpowermentZone.com/FxMax.exe
And IEMax scripts for Internet Explorer:
http://EmpowermentZone.com/IEMax.exe
To version 1.3, making various fixes and updating the 35 Web Client utilities which give users easy access to a range of web-based information. All these scripts now work with 64-bit Windows 7.

7) Humanware announces a free upgrade for BrailleNote Apex and mPower users: KeySoft 9.0.2 for BrailleNote Apex and KeySoft 8.0 build 21 for mPower.
http://www.humanware.com/braillenote_support

8) Kathy Ann Murtha is holding a $150 three-hour seminar on What's New in Microsoft Word and Outlook 2010 on GMT Monday, 21 June at 23:00
http://www.blindtraining.com/office2010.html

9) The recent online Book Sense seminar is now available for download.
http://www.gwmicro.com/podcast
Worksheets to accompany it can be had here:
http://www.gwmicro.com/teachers

10) GW Micro announces that the price of the Portable SenseView magnifier has just dropped $100 to $695!
http://www.gwmicro.com

11) The Floss manuals site contains 49 manuals for different programs and projects, including Firefox and Audacity as well as many I've never heard of. Jamal Mazrui has converted the manuals on the site to text and put all the manuals into an archive.
http://EmpowermentZone.com/FlossManuals.zip

12) The Equipment Solutions Specialist Team at Vision Australia have begun producing podcasts. they have two series so far:using Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) with VoiceOver
http://www.visionaustralia.org/info.aspx?page=2296
Using the iPhone 3GS and the iPod Touch 3rd generation with VoiceOver
http://www.visionaustralia.org/info.aspx?page=2297

13) GW Micro has reduced the price of the Voice Sense to $1,995.
http://www.gwmicro.com/Voice_Sense/

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