Top tech tidbits for Thursday, November 2, 2006

I'm working to improve the html so that links show up in e-mail and on the web, but am having interesting system problems.

1)  US residents who like to attend movies with audio description can find Regal Cinema theaters that offer the service in their town.

2)  the tuition-free correspondence school for the blind, the Hadley School, now offers a course entitled getting Organized with Excel.  For information, e-mail:

student_services@hadley.edu

3)  3)  Microsoft has released version 11 of windows Media player, and here is a review of the program:

4) Serotek has upgrades Freedom box System Access so that the Freedom Box user can link to a computer running another access program such as window-eyes or JAWS and run that access technology remotely from their computer.  this has great training and trouble-shooting potenaial.  Serotek has also widened its dealer network.

5)  Jamal Mazrui has assembled a collection of 40 free online books for learning to program with C#, converted them to text files with some structure for searching, and made them available in a 10MB archive.

6)  IRC is a venerable instant messaging system where people exchange files and conversation.l  Two ways to access it have recently been discussed on mailing lists.  One that works with both window-Eyes and JAWS is TIRC

and information about two other access approaches, Mirc and Sjans can be found here:

7)  Gw Micro is releasing a beta version of the Braille Sense notetaker on 3 November.  this version will support MSN Messenger and include an enhanced database

8)  Here is a Fred's Head Companion article listing several sources for free old-time radio programs and other vintage audio material.

9)  JfW 7.1 does not fully work with the new Internet Explorer 7.0.  Freedom Scientific has announced plans to release a patch in the next week to make these two programs work together.

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