Top Tech tidbits for thursday, June 7, 2007

1)  National Braille Press now has a reference card of windows Vista keyboard commands and tips for using Vista without a mouse, downloadable, $5.00 US.
http://www.nbp.org/ic/nbp/VISTA.html

2)  The May-June issue of Dialogue, a magazine available in several formats for a $42 annual subscription, containing information about technology and much more regarding blindness, is now available.
http://www.blindskills.com/current_past.html. 

3)  Here's a review of another inexpensive portable mp3 player with some advantages, the iRiver T50 or T60:
http://pocketables.typepad.com/pocketables/2007/05/review_iriver_t.html

4)  Here's a free program that will burn data and audio cd's and data dvd's.  If you buy the paid version, it will burn movie dvd's.
http://www.deepburner.com

5)  this page contains several courses from New York University whose lectures are available as podcasts or free downloads:
http://podcast.york.cuny.edu/lectures/

6)  Some months after its pre-announcement, Gw Micro announces that the Voice Sense, a small notetaker with an fm radio, wifi and bluetooth capability, is now shipping.  The price is $1,795 until it goes up by $100 on July 15.
http://www.gwmicro.com/voicesense

7)  Keep Your Computer Safe! is the topic for the Accessible World training on GMT 12 June at 00:00.  The group has also updated its program archive, so all recent trainings are available for download.
http://www.accessibleworld.org

8)  The Bookshare Online Chat Room, staffed by volunteers and under the auspices of Accessible World, will open on Friday, 8 June, for those wishing to promote and extend the Bookshare community.
http://tinyurl.com/2avczp

9)  A software speech synthesizer with capability for nine languages is now available for Linux.
http://TTSynth.Com

10)  Microsoft is hiring a software engineer to head up accessibility testing for Internet Explorer. 
http://members.microsoft.com/careers/search/details.aspx?JobID=EDC85083-8FD9-4E16-BE2B-1B736C30E3AC&start=1&interval=10&SortCol=DatePosted.

11)  Sensory Access Foundation in California is hiring an Adaptive Technology Specialist.  Send resume and cover letter to Marie King at
mking@sensoryaccess.com 
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