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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Wii Intro
2/27/2009 Ken Downey describes the basic features of the Wii and its remotes, and playes through the five Wii sports games of tennis, baseball, bowling, golf, and boxing, giving tips on how to play each successfully as well as on finding the games channel from the main Wii menu. 19.2 MB
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Independence Training Program
2/26/2009 Drew Weber compiles testimonials from students and staff on how the Independence Training Program at the Colorado Center for the Blind empowers blind persons to lead independent lives as fully integrated, productive, and contributing members of society. Instructors explain philosophy, goa …
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TTS Subtitles
2/25/2009 Aaron Hoffman describes a way to make foreign media accessible via a media player that reads external subtitles (softsubs) with TTS. 28.6 MB
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Yamaha Mini Motif Review
2/24/2009 Daniel Romero reviews this synthesizer. He describes the keyboard, provides background, and suggests the Motif may help a beginning artist define their style. 31.6 MB
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NBX Audio Converter
2/23/2009 Reina Brown reviews this audio file conversion program that is both easy to use and accessible. It converts WMA, WAV, OGG, VOX, and MP3. 8.8 MB
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Mobile Geo Review
2/22/2009 Cory Martin demonstrates this program available from Sendero Group and Code Factory that runs on a mobile device like a smart phone or PDA to provide maps, navigation, and more using the GPS. Global Positioning System (He explains how the software has helped him, shows trips he recorded, …
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Grml Install
2/22/2009 Michael Whapples demonstrates installing this version of Linux that comes with a software speech synthesizer, making it completely accessible to the blind user with no additional hardware (such as speech synthesizers or braille displays) even to make a complete install. 13.3 MB
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Korean And Chinese
2/21/2009 David Chun and Harrison Tu discuss languages and compare and contrast the Korean and Chinese languages. 24.3 MB
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I-Tell
2/18/2009 Riz Khan reviews this remote control like device from Cobolt Speech that plugs into the docking station connector on an existing iPod to make it talk and let the user control it. 37.7 MB
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Jawter
2/17/2009 Earle Zwicker demonstrates these scripts for theJAWS screen reader that let the user participate with Twitter all with hot keys--without having to run a separate program. He also provides background on the Twitter micro-blogging environment. 44.4 MB
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Digital TV Boxes
2/16/2009 Don Coco describes how the new set-top digital TV boxes work and look, and explains the conversion process. 17.1 MB
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Magic Jack
2/13/2009 Reina Brown demonstrates Magic Jack, an accessible device that lets you have a house phone run from an internet connection, so you never have a phone bill again. They are also available at Radio Shack. 6.2 MB
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Windows 7 First Looks Part 3
2/11/2009 Rick Harmon describes a couple of personalization and performance tweaks and then shows differences in the network and sharing center in both Vista and Windows 7. Windows 7 is much more accessible in this area than Vista. 17.6 MB
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Mac Demo 6
2/9/2009 Mike Arrigo describes how to walk up to a Mac in the store and get it talking, so you can try it there. He also demonstrates using Voice Over on the numeric keypad and shows how to copy files. He copies a book to an SD card for use on the Victor Reader Stream. 18.1 MB
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Travel Gear
1/25/2009 Michael Feir describes the equipment he uses to travel effectively including a netbook, portable table, and packpack suitcase. 34.4 MB
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Asus Netbook
1/25/2009 Aaron Spears reviews the on the Asus EEE PC 904 ha netbook using the netbook itself to record. 45.1 MB
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Windows 7 First Looks Part 2
1/22/2009 Rick Harmon discusses the new user authorization control, the Action Center, and a feature called Sticky Notes in Windows 7. 16.8 MB
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Yamaha YPT 413
1/21/2009 Jason Earls reviews this impressive, realistic sounding keyboard. 32.4 MB
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Letter Me Later
1/19/2009 Sarah Alawami demonstrates this service which you may use both from the web site and an email client that lets you schedule email to be mailed later. 13.4 MB
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Slot Machine
1/18/2009 Jason Smith demonstrates a Japinese skill slot machine. He explains that, by law, such machines must offer an element of skill rather than relying on pure chance as most US machines do. 14.9 MB
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