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Top Tech Tidbits - Volume 289
The Week's News in Access Technology

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Greetings,

1) Four new DAISY training books, and mp3 files, on JAWS are now available: Excel Column and Row Headers, Settings Center, New in JAWS 12, Text Analyzer, New in JAWS 12, and Virtual Ribbon Menus, New in JAWS 12. If you have JAWS 12 you can use check for updates. People with earlier versions of JAWS or even people who don't have JAWS can download them from
http://www.freedomscientific.com/downloads/training/training-downloads.asp#new

2) HIMS, Inc announces upgrades to version 2.2 of the Booksense products. This upgrade fixes lots of bugs and adds some audio functionality.
http://www.hims-inc.com

3) HIMS also offers trade-in deals for their notetakers and DAISY book reader, allowing you to trade existing products for discounts.
http://hims-inc.com/notice_view.php?start=0&types=&view_num=57&smode=&search_type=&keyword=

4) The description of SeroTalk Tech Chat 82is, appropriately, Android Accessibility, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back!
http://www.serotalk.com/2010/12/24/serotalk-tech-chat-82-android-accessibility-one-step-forward-two-steps-back-2/

5) Version 2 of the free iBlink Radio app for the Apple i-devices is now available from Serotek. With an improved interface and more content, this app brings together a vast number of radio stations, Radio Reading Services and podcasts produced by or for the blind.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/i-blink-radio/id332027117?mt=8

6) SkypeTalking, a Skype add-on that adds accessibility regardless of your screen reader, is up to public beta version 0.9.
http://skypetalking.googlecode.com/files/SkypeTalking_0.9Beta_Portable.exe

7) This Fred's Head post is entitled Share Files on Twitter, and gives several resources for doing so.
http://www.fredshead.info/2010/12/share-files-on-twitter.html

8) This Fred's Head compendium of information regarding braille translation software contains information about several options, including programs that probably don't run on the latest computers. It includes listings for programs enabling people to turn the PC keyboard into a Perkins-style six-key keyboard, braille music translation software, and other resources.
http://www.fredshead.info/2007/03/braille-translation-software.html

9) A new bug-fix release of Orca, which gives access to the Gnome graphical desktop in Linux, is available.
http://live.gnome.org/Orca

10) Openbook 9.0.1305, a hotfix, has been released. It can be installed over other version 9 installations.
ftp://ftp.freedomscientific.com/users/hj/private/WebFiles/OpenBook/OB9.0.1305-32bit-64bit.exe

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