Top Tech tidbits for Thursday, September 6, 2007

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1)  Stephen Baum from Kurzweil will present A Technical View of Optical Character Recognition as the Tek Talk presentation for GMT Tuesday, 11 September starting at 00:00.
<a href="http://www.accessibleworld.org.">http://www.accessibleworld.org.
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2)  Here is a Fred's Head Companion post to help you decide if joining an audio book club is a good idea for you.
<a href="http://fredsheadcompanion.blogspot.com/2007/09/audio-book-clubs-are-they-right-choice.html">http://fredsheadcompanion.blogspot.com/2007/09/audio-book-clubs-are-they-right-choice.html
</a>

3)  Fred's Head also tells us that Bob Rankin, co-author of the informative and venerable Internet Tourbus newsletter, 
<a href="http://www.TOURBUS.com">http://www.TOURBUS.com
</a>wrote a plain-language book called the No Bs Guide to Linux.  the book is out of print, so he has put it on the web, calling it Low Fat Linux,  for free use.
<a href="http://www.LowFatLinux.com ">http://www.LowFatLinux.com 
</a>

4)  Jim Kitchen continues to enhance his collection of self-voicing windows games.  He has recently added four files to the trivia game and has improved his baseball game.
<a href="http://www.kitchensinc.net">http://www.kitchensinc.net
</a>

5)  Here are two mailing lists, jaws-users-list  and blind-computing.  to join jaws-users-list, send a blank message to
jaws-users-list-subscribe@jaws-users.com
and for blind-computing, send a blank message to
blind-computing-subscribe@jaws-users.com


6)  Denny Huff has started a list dedicated to helping screen reader users use Office 2007 programs more effectively.  JAWS, Window-Eyes and System Acces are all discussed.  To join, put the word subscribe in the subject line and send an otherwise blank message to
office2007-request@GatewayForTheBlind.Com 


7)  The Tarzan Junior game is now freeware, and works on windows Vista.
<a href="http://www.sendspace.com/file/97vnap">http://www.sendspace.com/file/97vnap
</a>

8)  EdSharp, Jamal Mazrui's free text editor and word processor, continues to add new features at version 2.1.  It now lets you download web pages, edit html documents, write subscript and superscript as well as bold, underline and italics, set and change font, look up words in online dictionaries, process and store regular expressions, and much more.
<a href="http://www.EmpowermentZone.com/edsetup.exe">http://www.EmpowermentZone.com/edsetup.exe
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9)  Assistive technology Center is offering some free seminars and a couple $50 seminars online during September.  Free seminars include AdvantEdge Reader Overview, while paid seminars concern System Access.  For registration information e-mail
connie@atechcenter.net


10)  EASI is holding a free online webinar, Accessible E-Books in Higher Ed, on Thursday, 27 September at 18:00 GMT.  Pre-registration is required.
<a href="http://easi.cc/clinic.htm">http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
</a>they also offer a four-part fee-based series; Accessible Vodcasts, Making Captions for a Personal Portable Player starting on 18 September.
<a href="http://easi.cc/clinic.htm">http://easi.cc/clinic.htm
</a>

11)  the Gw Micro blog has recently discussed a way to read protected pdf documents which you can use if you have Microsoft Office 2003 or later, and also reviewed the free Contact Keeper program which is an accessible replacement for the Microsoft Outlook Contact Manager if you don't.
<a href="http://www.gwmicro.com/blog/">http://www.gwmicro.com/blog/
</a>

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