Blind Cool Tech
Blind Cool Tech is a podcast that brings some fun and variety into your mp3 player. The show provides interviews, brings you along on sound seeing tours, and discusses life and cool technology that blind people can use.
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Introduction To Railroad Recordings
11/6/2009 Michael Hansen recordsg the sounds of trains. His fascination shows as he provides background and facts about each of these stunning recordings. 37.3 MB
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House Podcast
11/5/2009 Corien Bennink narrates the Fox television series House and makes each episode available through her podcast. 64.0 MB
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Solona Demo
11/4/2009 David Dubphy and Hope Polus demonstrate this technique for solving the CAPTIA challanges that are so frustrating to blind users. See www.solona.net. 31.9 MB
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Variax 700 Acoustic Modeling Guitar
10/27/2009 Matthew Bullis demonstrates this high end electronic guitar and shares tips on returning everything to factory settings. 16.6 MB
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Nokia N86
10/27/2009 Aaron Spears demonstrates the relatively new Nokia N86 cell phone with it's 8 MP camera, gives a physical description, then goes on to take a look at some of the software. He finishes off with a quick test of the free demonstration copy of the coming software package "Text Scout", an alt …
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What Is New In JAWS 11
10/24/2009 Eric Damery and Dan Clark discuss various aspects of the new release of this industry leading screen reader from www.freedomscientific.com including the fact that it is available in time for the release of Windows 7, it ships with several high quality voices, and it includes a new featur …
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Calendar
10/26/2009 Richard McKinley demonstrates the Agenda Talking Calendar and discusses its benefits and drawbacks. 8.5 MB
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What Is New in JAWS 11
10/24/2009 Eric Damery and Dan Clark discuss various aspects of the new release of this industry leading screen reader from www.freedomscientific.com including the fact that it is available in time for the release of Windows 7, it ships with several high quality voices, and it includes a new featur …
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Braille Pumpkin Picture
10/23/2009 Mary Emerson uses a standard braille writer to create a picture of a jack-o-lantern. Follow along as she takes you step by step through the process. 17.9 MB
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NVDA Demo
10/21/2009 John Herzog and Jessie Kirchner demonstrate NVDA's improved support for internet explorer, including how it works with flash content. They also show enhancements to microsoft office, including spell check support in word 2007. Finally, Jessie shows us how she uses NVDA with FineReader t …
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Spain Trip
10/20/2009 Christie Gilson travels to Spain over the summer and chronicals her adventures. 13.2 MB
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Olympus DM520 And DM420
10/15/2009 Pat Ferguson outlines the details of packing, buttons, and use of these two digital audio recorders from Olympus. 17.5 MB
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Casio DG20 MIDI Guitar
10/13/2009 Matthew Bullis takes a look at this vintage MIDI instrument that lets you get those keyboard sounds by playing it like a guitar. This works great for those who can't play a keyboard, but know the guitar well. 17.3 MB
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Registry Maintenance
10/12/2009 Ernie Segura explains why it is important to pay attention to your registry and demonstrates some tools that help with the tasks. 13.5 MB
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Read The Health Care Bill In Audio Format
10/11/2009 Steve Bauer explains that it is understandable why our representatives sometimes don't read a bill before voting on it when you consider the complexity and scope of such legislation. This unique project at www.hearthebill.org features a colaberation of professional narrator talent from …
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iPhone Basics
10/10/2009 Matt Vollbrecht shows how it is possible to perform most of the functions of the iPhone with its unique touch based screen reader, Voice Over. 35.8 MB
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LG ENV3
10/9/2009 Scott Lawlor reviews this cell phone that comes out of the box pretty much accessible without adding a screen reader to it. 21.4 MB
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NLS Players
10/8/2009 Robert Carter demonstrates five Digital Talking Book players that have been authorized to play the content that one may now download from the National Library Service (NLS). 44.7 MB
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SP BMC 20 Binaural Microphones
10/7/2009 Drew Weber reviews these high quality microphones from Sound Professionals. 29.3 MB
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Microsoft Security Essentials
10/6/2009 Mary Emerson explains how she was able to replace several programs, some with difficult to use interfaces, with this free virus and spyware package from Microsoft that is very easy to install and use. 12.9 MB
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