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Top Tech Tidbits - Volume 236
The Week's News in Access Technology

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1) This article by Ron Schenone is entitled Don’t Become A Victim Of Web Loyalty Or Coupon Saving Scams
http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2009/11/18/dont-become-a-victim-of-web-loyalty-or-coupon-saving-scams/

2) Tek Talk presents All about the NLS Player, everything you want to know about obtaining and playing books on the free players from the Libraries for the Blind in the US, GMT Tuesday, 1 December at 01:00.
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rsc9613dc89eb2

3) Internet Your Way to a New Job - How to Really Find a Job Online is a new $11.95 book from National Braille Press in online and braille. the book includes up-to-date tips on using sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn to enhance your job search and career building.
http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/JOBONLINE.html

4) Keith Bundy is offering two two-hour workshops on Becoming a Power Online Shopper, one for JAWS and one for Window-Eyes users. Taking the workshops via telephone conference line costs $20, and buying a cd of the content costs $30.
http://www.keithbundy.com/?p=117

5) Version 0.78 of vOICe for Android phones is available. The program turns pictures taken by the phone into sound patterns.
http://www.seeingwithsound.com/android.htm

6) Handy Tech North America is selling what it calls its Triumphonic Mobile Pack, consisting of an HTC743 windows Mobile Smart Phone with both a QWERTY and a telephone keypad and its contact manager and calendar, Mobile Speak for windows Mobile, and Mobile Geo GPS software. this package costs $1,699 but purchased before 21 December $100 can be saved. You can hear an audio demo of the system here:
http://www.handytech.us/demos/GeoDemo.mp3
And more information about this and other Handy Tech offerings is here:
http://www.handytech.us

7) This Fred's Head post is called What’s the difference between spyware, viruses, malware, adware and grayware?
http://www.fredshead.info/2009/11/whats-difference-between-spyware.html

8) SeroTalk Podcast 28 discusses Accessing Computers Remotely no matter what screen reader they are using, mp3 players, and Mobility Choices
http://serotalk.com/2009/11/24/serotalk-podcast-28-accessing-computers-remotely-and-mobility-choices/

9) SeroTalk Tech Chat 42 discussed many aspects of Self-employment and Working From Home, and gave plenty of resources in the show notes.
http://serotalk.com/2009/11/20/serotalk-tech-chat-42-self-employment-and-working-from-home-2/

10) A potentially useful blog I was led to is the Cheapskate from CNeT News. the posts and resulting comments give good information about good deals that arise.
http://news.cnet.com/cheapskate/?tag=rb_content;overviewHead

11) This Mark Taylor CandleShore podcast introduces version 4 of Mobile Speak for both Symbian and Windows Mobile phones.
http://candleshoreblog.com/mark/podcasts/40-MSP4.mp3

12) This blog post from the same source is entitled Ten Tips for Buying A Windows 7 Laptop
http://mark.candleshoreblog.com/2009/11/19/ten-tips-for-buying-a-windows-7-laptop/

13) Don't know about the accessibility of this, but here is a review from the team from Gizmo on Best Free Online TV Viewer
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/gizmosbest/~3/QRnkeSEfd5s/best-free-online-tv-viewer.htm

14) ACB Radio hasn't had a paid Managing Director for a while, but now they're recruiting for one. Application materials can come by d-mail to Melanie Brunson
mbrunson@acb.org

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