Top Tech tidbits for Thursday, November 23, 2006

It's a little late, but for those who collect the quarterly compendia of tidbits issues, I've finally uploaded the seventh quarterly file, q7, consisting of issues 79-91, from 7 July through 5 October.  You can get the file from the website
http://topdotenterprises.com/q7.txt
or by sending a blank message to
q7@topdotenterprises.com.

We'll be seeing a flurry of additions to the Sound Computing collection in the next few weeks.  If you're considering the deal, 50 audio articles, at least 18 hours of content, for a total of nine dollars, you can now look at a page which lists the existing articles for you to preview.
http://topdotenterprises.com/scsum.htm

1)  Version 8 of JAWS for windows has been released.  Not recommended for users of Windows 2000, but win xp users are having good experiences with it.
http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_products/software_jaws80fea.asp

2)  Jamal Mazrui has created an archive containing 27 files of the documentation for JAWS version 8.
http://www.EmpowermentZone.com/jfw80doc.zip

3)  the window-Eyes beta cycle continues, beta 3 of version 6 has been released.
http://www.gwmicro.com/beta

4)  In Sound Computing article #28, we update and complete the tutorial on total Recorder, discusing features new in versin 6 as well as some of the other powerful recording features of the program.
http://topdotenterprises.com/scsum.htm

5)  You can talk to Santa again this year courtesy of the Audio Network.
http://www.pressakey.net/santa/>

6)  We learn via the EAccess Bulletin that the BBC has launched a blog to discuss the accessibility of the growing number of Web 2.0 services.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/access20/ ),

7)  You can get a free and easy-to-use document diary in text and Word formats.
http://www.moving-mountains.com

8)  Jamal Mazrui has assembled a collection of 13 tutorials for learning the Java programming language.
http://www.empowermentzone.com/java_doc.zip
 
9)  IRTI has released beta versions of four tools designed to read and create Daisy files.
http://www.irti.net/eclipse/index.htm

10) Sound Computing article 29 features a discussion and demonstration of the very affordable and accessible subscriber site for the mainstream computer magazine Smart Computing.
http://topdotenterprises.com/scsum.htm

11)  A new discussion group, blindcomputerusers,  for anything related to combuter use by the blind has been created.  to join, send a blank message to
blindcomputerusers-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

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