Top Tech tidbits for Thursday, March 29, 2007
                
1)  EASI offers a free session on accessible PowerPoint On 5 April at 18:00 gmt, and will follow that with a four-part fee-based series going into greater detail.  they will also offer a four-part fee-based webinar on creating Daisy books. 
http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
On their podcast page is a session from the recently-completed CSUN Conference on an initiative to turn pdf documents into Daisy documents.
http://easi.cc/podcasts
Finally they offer two online courses during April.
http://easi.cc/workshop.htm


2)  this interesting site, courtesy of Pirillo's Picks, let's you learn more about movies which claim to based on real life, and on movies which are based on, or which generate, books.
http://www.chasingthefrog.com/


3)  From the same source comes this Personal DNA, free personality test that appears to be quite accessible.
http://www.personaldna.com/


4)  Jeff Bishop at The Desert Skies directs us to a great video where Doug Geoffray from Gw Micro is educating engineers at Yahoo! about screen reading technology.
http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/03/28/video-geoffray/

5)  PCS Games has a new offering designed for the blind: Sarah and the Castle of witchcraft and wizardry.
http://www.pcsgames.net


6)  the Carroll Center is offering a $2,960 seminar, Computer & On-line Job Search Skills Training, with separate sessions for JAWS and ZoomText users.  Email
dina.rosenbaum@carroll.org


7)  Owners of the Pac Mate who purchase FS Reader or update their existing copy to version 1.1, and who purchase a key from Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, can now play RFB&D books on their Pac Mate.
http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_downloads/FSReader_Update.asp



8)  the Jawslite mailing list has for some time been an alternative, presumably less busy, list for those seeking help with JAWS.  Now the list has moved to Freelists.  to join, put the word subscribe in the subject and send a message to
jawslite-request@freelists.org


9) Owners of the BrailleNote mPower with the latest version of KeySoft can buy a comprehensive tutorial on Nemeth braille as an add-on.  To learn more, e-mail
Dominic.Gagliano@HumanWare.com



10) Orientation and information accessibility is the topic for the 3 April gmt at 00:00 Accessible World training, focusing on talking signs.
http://www.accessibleworld.org



11)  Recent entries to the Ranger Station blog,  those dated from 22 to 28 March, give many links to products featured at CSUN, particularly low vision products.  Noteworthy is his high praise of the screen magnifier MAGic version 10.5.
http://therangerstation.blogspot.com/


12)  Serotek announces that its System Access now allows users to create Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations, and supports the new Office 2007.
http://www.freedombox.info

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