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David Woodbridge from Vision Australia introduces us to a new release of Fleksy a way of inputting information into your iOS device and shows us many of its' new features. Stuart Lawler from the National Council for the Blind of ireland introduces the screen reader for Blackberry cell phones and demos some of its' features. Jamey Pauls from the SeroTalk Podcast Network at the 2012 ACB Convention interviews Ron Miller from Freedom Scientific, and they discuss some of the new products from FS. Shane Davidson brings us the second part of his interview and demo of the Swamp Audio Game. And David Woodbridge demos the Accessibility Panel shortcuts in Mountain Lion. Main Menu can first be heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast f

David Woodbridge from Vision Australia introduces us to Fleksy, a new way of inputting information into your iOS device Shane Davidson introduces us to the Swamp Audio Game. And Jamey Pauls from the SeroTalk Podcast Network brings us an interview with a representative from Humanware at the 2012 ACB Convention. Main Menu can first be heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php Visit the Main Menu website at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org Follow MainMenu on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/mainmenu Subscribe to a list where you can interact with other Main Menu listeners and the Main Menu staff by sending a blank email message to: mm-friends-subscribe at acbradio.org

No it isn't the Olympics, but this week MainMenu goes around the world to bring you the latest information on accessible technologies for the blind and visually impaired. We start with a tech update from Executive Producer Chase Crispin. Then, Host David Tanner interviews staff from Accomplish, developers of the Cash Manager accessible bookkeeping software from their headquarters in New Zealand. David Woodbridge from Vision Australia introduces us to the new dictation feature in Mountain Lion. Come along with us on our world wide trip to bring you the latest in fine accessible technologies you will want to try on your home or business computer. Main Menu can first be heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://ma

Just hours ago, Apple released their new operating system, Mac OS10.8, known as Mountain Lion. Main Menu is pleased to be one of the first to cover this brand new operating system. On this week's Main Menu, Chase Crispin speaks with David Woodbridge about many new and exciting features in Mountain Lion. David then demonstrates some of the new changes in accessibility that you will find when you upgrade to Mountain Lion. We will bring you more demos of Mountain Lion functions in the coming weeks as well. This is an exciting show that you won't want to miss, especially if you are a Mac user who is going to upgrade, or who has just upgraded, to Mountain Lion. Main Menu can first be heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at:

Executive Producer Chase Crispin starts off this week's show with a tech update. David Tanner interviews Stephen Baum from Kurzweil Educational Systems and we find out about all the new features in the recently released version 13 of the Kurzweil1000 accessible OCR scanning software. It's all on MainMenu this week on ACBRadio Mainstream! Main Menu can be first heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php Follow MainMenu on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/mainmenu Subscribe to a list where you can interact with other Main Menu listeners and the Main Menu staff by sending a blank email message to: mm-friends-subscribe at acbradio.org

Executive Producer Chase Crispin starts off this week's show with a tech update. David Tanner interviews Dan Wirich from GW Micro about their support for the software and hardware that allows students to actively participate in scientific experiments at school, college and in the professional world. Chase returns with a demonstration of the new Podcasts app from Apple. And, Chase finally introduces us to and demonstrates use of the new 2012 Convention Calendar for your IOS phone or Microsoft Outlook. Have the entire schedule in your hand. It's all on MainMenu this week on acbradio Mainstream! Main Menu can be first heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php Follow MainMenu on Twit

This week's show starts with David Woodbridge from Vision Australia giving us an overview of Voice Over navigation Options on the Mac. Then MainMenu staff member Mary Emerson brings us a review and demonstration of the Cloudmark DesktopOne Spam blocker It's all on MainMenu this week on ACB Radio Mainstream! Main Menu can be first heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php Follow MainMenu on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/mainmenu Subscribe to a list where you can interact with other Main Menu listeners and the Main Menu staff by sending a blank email message to: mm-friends-subscribe at acbradio.org

This week's show starts with Executive Producer Chase Crispin presenting his weekly technology Update. Bill McCann from Dancing Dots introduces us to products from Dancing Dots and demonstrates their software package that allows a blind musician the ability to read and compose music on their Windows based computer with all the features and flexability of some of the best music composing software on the market. MainMenu staff member David Woodbridge from Vision Australia shows us the Light Detector app for your Apple iOS device that gives the blind person an excellent light probe on their device. MainMenu listeners in the Minneapolis/St Paul twin cities area who listen to MainMenu through Minnesota Radio Talkingbook will need the new digital receiver supplied by Minnesota Radio Talkingbook starting on June 25th in order to hear MainMenu from that service starting next week. If they do not have the new digital radio they should contact the Communications Center at Minnesota State Services for the Blind to

This week's show starts with Executive Producer Chase Crispin presenting his weekly technology Update. MainMenu host David Tanner interviews Michael curne from NVAccess about their latest release of the NVDA screen reader. And, MainMenu staff member David Woodbridge from Vision Australia shows us the Type2Phone app for the Mac that lets you use the Mac keyboard to type on your iPhone or iPad. It's all on MainMenu this week on ACB Radio Mainstream! Main Menu can be first heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php Follow MainMenu on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/mainmenu Subscribe to a list where you can interact with other Main Menu listeners and the Main Menu staff by sendi

On this week's Main Menu after Chase Crispin's weekly Tech Update, Chase visits with Jamie Pauls, content director for Serotek and host of the SeroTalk podcast and Joe Steinkamp, operations director at Serotek and executive producer of the SeroTalk podcast network about all of the podcasts available from SPN. Coverage of the summer national conventions is also discussed. Finally, David Woodbridge of Vision Australia shows us how to use the Remote Mic app for your iOS device that will let you use your iOS device as a microphone for your Mac. This is a show that you do not want to miss! Main Menu can be first heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is made available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php Visit the Main Menu websi

This week's show starts with Executive Producer Chase Crispin interviewing Jenny Axler from Hims, Inc. about the Braille Sense U2 notetaker and the new Braille Edge Braille display and basic notetaker. MainMenu staff member Mary Emerson continues our exclusive coverage of new products from Hims, Inc. with a demonstration of the Braille Edge Braille display and basic notetaker. It's all on MainMenu this week on acbradio's Mainstream! Main Menu can be first heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php Follow MainMenu on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/mainmenu Subscribe to a list where you can interact with other Main Menu listeners and the Main Menu staff by sending a blank emai

This week's show starts with a Tech Update with MainMenu Executive Producer Chase Crispin. Rick Harmon introduces us to the Four Square app for IOS devices and takes us on a tour of the app and the website. Dan Eikmmeier reviews the Aether Ham Radio Loging Application. And, David Woodbridge from Vision Australia demonstrates sharing notes between the iPhone and the Mac using the Single Text application for iOS and Apple Lion. It's all on MainMenu this week on acbradio's Mainstream! Main Menu can be first heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php Follow MainMenu on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/mainmenu Subscribe to a list where you can interact with other Main Menu listener

This week's show starts with David Woodbridge presenting a MainMenu exclusive presentation of navagating the Easy Chirp Website to access Twitter. Our second feature of the week comes to us courtesy of Vision Australia and David Woodbridge presenting using the Mac application "Night Owl" to access a Twitter account. It's all on MainMenu this week on acbradio's Mainstream! Main Menu can be first heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php Follow MainMenu on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/mainmenu Subscribe to a list where you can interact with other Main Menu listeners and the Main Menu staff by sending a blank email message to: mm-friends-subscribe at acbradio.org

This week's show starts with a Tech Update with Chase Crispin. We hear a review of how to setup and use the personal hotspot on your iPhone curtesy of Vision Australia and David Woodbridge. Rich Cavalaro reviews the Bose Sound Link Portable Speaker System, and Rick Harmon follows with a review and demo of the Bose Sound Doc 10 for beautiful music from your iPhone or other "i" device. Its' all on MainMenu this week on ACB Radio Mainstream! Main Menu can be first heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php Follow MainMenu on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/mainmenu Subscribe to a list where you can interact with other Main Menu listeners and the Main Menu staff by sending a blan

This week's show starts with an interview with Harry Brown. Harry will bring us up -to-date on the latest developments in progress toward the automated vehicle. And, it may be here sooner than you think!!! Thanks to Serotek and The Serotalk Podcast Network we are rebroadcasting two interviews from CSUN 2012 with a representative from Humanware demonstrating the latest Braille technology available from the company. The other interview is with Bones all about the latest in Milestone Digital Recorders. Finally, thanks to Vision Australia we hear a demonstration from David Woodbridge of how to do dictation on your Mac using the Dictabulus app on your IOS device for doing the dictation.

This week's show starts with a technology update from Chase Crispin, and then Jeremy Curry from GW Micro brings us a demonstration of two talking CCTV systems. David Tanner then interviews Jeremy, and they continue with a discussion of talking CCTVs and their features. Thanks to Seroteck and the Serotalk Podcast Network www.serotalk.com we are rebroadcasting two interviews from CSUN 2012 with Ai Squared, and a representative from Looktel, a company making a number of outstanding apps for IOS devices. Finally, thanks to Vision Australia we hear a demonstration from David Woodbridge of how to do speed calls from your iPhone. Its' all on MainMenu this week on acbradio's Mainstream! Main Menu can be first heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to t

This week's show starts with our notetaker coverage and we hear the second part of the panel discussion about the five notetakers we have been covering during the notetaker series. Tim cumings reviews the GWConnect software that gives the user a new level of accessibility to Skype. And, thanks to www.serotalk.com we rebroadcast an interview that they did at the CSUN 2012 conference with Doug Geoffray from GW Micro about Windows 8 and what they are doing to make it accessible with their flagship screen reader Window-Eyes and more! Its' all on MainMenu this week on acbradio's Mainstream! Main Menu can be first heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php Follow MainMenu on Twitter at:

While David Tanner was away, Chase Crispin filled in as the host of Main Menu for this week's show. This week, we begin by airing the first half of a two part panel discussion all about note takers as a conclusion to the last few weeks of demos. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of the devices that we have been demoing, how these devices are used in the daily lives of the panel participants, and why these specialized devices are still needed for some people. We also point out some of the large weaknesses in the current generation of note taking products. This is something that many of you have suggested since our first panel discussion last August, and we are pleased to finally bring you this discussion. After the end of the first half of the discussion, David Woodbridge from Vision Australia shows us how to use the new iMessage beta application from Apple on any Mac running OS 10.7.2 Lion or later. This app will ship with Mac OS Mountain Lion 10.8 when it is released later this year. Fina

On this week's Main Menu, we begin by hearing our final segment in the Battle of the Note Takers series. This week, each presenter will discuss connectivity on their device and conclude the last few weeks of presentations on note takers. Then, we hear the final part of Neal Ewers' look at the new and accessible Olympus LS100 recorder. Following that, David Woodbridge from Vision Australia shows us how to create and add items to a play list in iTunes using Voice Over on the Mac. Finally, we hear about the latest plans on accessible GPS from the Sendero Group thanks to an interview from the 2012 CSUN conference which we are airing thanks to the SeroTalk Podcast Network at serotalk.com.

This week's show starts with our notetaker coverage and we find out about how our notetakers do at functions of stopwatch and countdown timer. Neal Ewers returns with the 3rd partt of his review of the Olympus LS100 Digital Recorder. And, complements of Blind Bargains Website we hear an interview from CSUN 2012 with the folks from Six Dots all about their new electronic Braille labeler. Its' all on MainMenu this week on acbradio's Mainstream! Main Menu can be first heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php Follow MainMenu on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/mainmenu Subscribe to a list where you can interact with other Main Menu listeners and the Main Menu staff by sending a