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Top Tech tidbits for Thursday, August 10, 2006 When I get material from blogs, I like to quote the source. Some people have objected to the unnecessary web links this practice provides. Henceforth, I will quote the sources used for a month in the last issue of the month, at the bottom. Typically, these blogs have been referenced before, so you can always find them in the arvhice, or you can do a web search for them. this should make the newsletter easier to read for some. 1) EASI will present a free web conference, Tablet Technology and People with Disabilities, on Tuesday, 15 August at 19:00 GMT http://easi.cc/clinic.htm 2) The Hadley School will present a free seminar entitled "Self-help Support Groups for People Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision," Wednesday, 16 August at 18:00 GMT. Pre-registratin is required. http://www.hadley.edu/seminar/ 3) Apple plans to release the Leopard operatign system for its Macintosh computers in October of 2007, and you can read about its planned accessibility features here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/accessibility.html 4) >Nintendo has developed 7 mini audio games that can be played on every GBA compatible platform, including the GameBoy Advanced, Gameboy Micro and Nintendo DS. Read about these Sound Voyager games here: http://www.audiogames.net/db.php?action=""> 5) This edition of Fred's Head companion lists and describes several sites where students can get help with homework: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FredsHeadCompanion/~3/9184335/homework-helping-sites-on-net.html 6) the same source also discusses Frucall, a site which allows you to go to a store, find a product you like, get the bar code from the product, then call and get prices for the product from the net on your mobile phone. Call 888-363-7822. 7) At the site http://www.xpscreenreader.com/index.php You can read about Thunder, a free screen reader for windows xp, Lightning, a 99-pound ($180) screen magnifier for windows xp, Inform, a news reader for those not familiar with computers, Scan2Text, an OCR program, and WordRead Plus, a screen reader for those who can use the mouse. 8) I don't often include news items of product ideas that are nowhere near fruition, but this one, regarding a low-cost braille-writing device, will be worth following: http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/news/home06/jul06/braille.html 9) IfByPhone, the voice portal that lets you check and send e-mail, get news, play games, and networkis now available toll-free in the U.S. they will soon let you send text spelled on your phone keypad as e-mail messages, and are promising to raise their prices soon. http://www.ifbyphone.com 10) Rusty Perez has created a tutorial on performing some EBay functions with a notetaker. You can download the 30-minute recording from him for $7 or he'll mail a cd to you for $10. E-mail him at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here are some web sites, gleaned from various publications, which might be interesting. I probably haven't evaluated them, so feel free to do so: 11) U.S. Government search, for searching across government agencies: http://usgov.google.com 12) Check out the airline industry, performance of different carriers, and more http://flightstats.com 13) A site for finding the lowest air fares http://cheapflights.com 14) there is much interesting material to be read on blogs, but how do you find it? Here are some blog search tools: http://www.sphere.com http://blogsearch.google.com http://www.icerocket.com http://www.feedster.com http://www.technorati.com 15) Do you wonder about the many processes that run on your windows xp system, what they do and whether or not you can get rid of any of them and save some system resources? Here are two web sites to help you answer those questions. http://www.processlibrary.com http://startup.networktechs.com/ 16) A twist on the usual book review site, Field-Tested books is based on the hypothesis that "reading a certain book in a certain place uniquely affects a person's experience with both." http://www.coudal.com/ftb/ the full archive of Tidbits issues, available in .zip and .txt formats, has been updated to include all issues through today. Visit the Tidbits page at 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]. That's the news for this week. Feel fre to forward intact copies of this newsletter, so others can subscribe. To subscribe, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and reply to the confirmatory message. Aspiring subscribers can also go to http://topdotenterprises.com/mailman/listinfo/tttt_topdotenterprises.com To leave the list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and reply to the confirmatory message. If you have a news item, handy web page or piece of software you want to recommend, concerning adaptive technology, technology as it relates to the blind, or Internet audio, send it to me for inclusion next time. List archives are available to members at http://topdotenterprises.com/mailman/private/tttt_topdotenterprises.com/ Inclusion of information in tttt does not imply any endorsement of products or services mentioned, or even that the content of the announcement is accurate. (Often, I do not verify the accuracy of the announcements.) Having said this, most are accurate and useful. TTTT is a free service of Top Dot Enterprises, Copyright (c) 2004, 2005, Top Dot Enterprises. 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