A couple of virus warnings that are out there today:

The first one is capitalizing on the death of pop star Michael Jackson.

The email comes with a subject line about Michael Jackson such as
“Remembering Michael Jackson.”

It appears to come from an email address from “michaeljackson.com”

It includes an attachment titled “Michael spongs and pictures.zip” which
is described to include secret songs and pictures of Jackson.

Security experts warn, however, that if you click the attachment you are
exposed to a computer virus—-one that almost immediately starts
spreading the virus to other Internet users via email.

The second one is an email offering you a software update from Microsoft.

This one directs you to a link—-but don’t click it. It, too, will
expose you to infection.

As always—have good virus protection software and keep it up to date.

FYI U.K. visiters.

I replied to Rick Fergison about this type of thing when he posted something about one celebrity death, I said that Michael Jackson was next. Take that to the bank, fellows. We’re not done yet.

Can’t we make up our minds yet? I know PC makers had little time to stop production of the said disks, but ship the PC’s who have it already, and those that don’t they don’t get it. Simple solution people?

This is the article I believe Rick was comment on in the next post you’ll see below this one. I’ve always been used to the masking of passwords, and I would have no idea on how to change any such thing in web development. Nobody has complained to me about having trouble logging in to something except if they tried something that isn’t registored like the other day for MENVI, but that is all. I would have no idea how they would change this anyway. Thoughts?

This is an interesting debate. I can see both sides, but I have always been in the understand that seeing stars for your password was a good thing. Maybe you don’t trust yourself to enter your password cause you can’t remember it and the basic password you can? It can be an interesting debate topic.

Read the accompanying article for more, sounds interesting.

This is not sounding good. Children now being targeted? Whats next? People learning how to use the computer? This is way too low for me to even comprehend. Ouch.

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howeverfor my system I do not.

Now this is definitely interesting, but wasn’t this covered before? This is definitely not good. Thats for sure. Hopefully Twitter can restore the account. I saw another story about someone closing their updates because of all the spam and attacks. Very interesting.

This is not good. Somehow, I am not surprised by this type of thing? Comment if you want.

I hope by paying all of this money that this company has learned their lesson. They should have been aware and should have fixed it as soon as possible. Although in their defense, I can understand how it could not be detected, but I would’ve not waited to go to court to get this thing settled, I would’ve started looking to what happened, issuing refunds to customers, and all that stuff. Wonder if they did that? This is going to get interesting as the story develops.

This is a good read, if I should say so myself.

This is sad. Rick reminds us time and time again that this type of thing is going on. Hacking is very serious, even the famous are targeted. I can’t agree more, and I’ve modified passwords, and try not to use the same one now like I’ve been known to do. Although I don’t change my passwords, but maybe should. Too complicated and too much time. But if thats what needs to be done and you can do it, go for it. Read this one for sure.

My first experience using an accessible touch screen device « Marco’s accessibility blog.

I don’t have time to read all of this, but when this does become available, I wonder if it would be accessible? Only time will tell, anyone want to try it, feel free and report back.

This is more information about the previous article from Rick at Trend Micro. This should be read too.

Oh boy, here we go again. More scams but this one is something you should definitely know about that we can get info about. Read and learn.

This is very interesting, sounds good, lets see what happens. If you have kids using this, let me know how they like it.

What do you think? Comments? Leave them here.

>Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:28:02 +1200
>To: dolphinusers@yahoogroups.com
>From: shaun everiss
>Subject: java
>
>Hi.
>it looks like sun has upgraded its installers for java.
>unless someone can varify this they have abandoned activex controls for actual downloads.
>I suggest that everyone read http://technology.jaredrimer.net where I have my article on what to do with java, the online installer is 10mb the offline one is like 5 mb extra over that so 15mb.
>I have not seen any issue however since I have downloaded the offline for myself I don’t even touch the web interfaces.
>Looks like sun is ie8 complient though.
>in fact page links suggest that one should upgrade to ie8 although java will still update.
>If you get the offline installer not sure about online you just have to click one button to install.
>

OK, so I don’t know what this software is? But whatever the software is, you should always think of security in todays envrionment. What do you think will happen if the developer goes after the people who supposedly cracked the software to put out a report on this volunerability? Do you think the developer will win? This can become very interesting, I know other software has been hacked and tampered with including Windows itself. I’ve not heard Microsoft do what this developer is thinking of doing, software is exploited every day. Comments are welcome.

Now, I don’t claim to know what I’m doing, I can only give my opinion on what I think people should do. But I do see the point on some of these jobs, where you should know exactly what you are doing. Tony Bradley has posted this to twitter, and I’ll post it here. You can check this out, and let me know what you think about these types of jobs and what confuses you about the multiple types of crime jobs.

This is very interesting.

Tony Bradley sent this. I don’t know what to think. I can actually see both sides, but this is not good. What do you guys think?

Europe to get Windows 7 sans browser | Beyond Binary - CNET News.

Interesting. What do you think?

Well, Mary has some interesting comments on this posting. Feel free to read it.

People had been asking on My Telespace about the DTV switch, so here you all go.

On the subject of a safe storage drive, yeah I have a 1tb western digital mybook which I use for secondary backup storage and a western digital elements 640gb drive for day to day use.
Hmmm fire.
didn’t think of that one, still no chance of a flood at least a standard one at least where I live as its on a slope.

Note, this next section applies to dolphin products only.
if you are not using a dolphin product then you may skip this.
Updating to sam 2.50
Receantly hal has been having issues with finding sam, and other things.
Sam 2.5 has extra things like driver disable and can detect what you have at first install.
1. make sure you have hidden files off in control folder.
to do this.
go to my computer
push alt v for view. or alt t for tools folder options should be at the end of these lists.
or go start run type control push enter.
push f for folder options or until that icon is hilighted and push enter.
push control tab to the view tab.
push tab once.
scrole down to hidden files and folders.
select show hidden files.
then semake sure that hide known types is off.
then curser down from that and make sure hide system files is off.
note this is to insure things are accessible to the user.
note! if you are using a shared system with only one account or a system that kids play with you should hide hidden files and protected files again because now every system file is exposed.
If you are a network admin then you have an account for such and know what you are about.
If you are a user on a network then your admin probably will have to help you so it doesn’t matter, the admin can do this.

Ok with that out the way.
find and locate the acapella.lic folder in the c drive or the root of the drive sam is on.
delete that folder.
note though that you must close hal, run nvda and uninstall sam first from add remove.
If you are assisting someone and you are not blind then don’t bother with nvda.
www.nvaccess.org is where you get nvda from v06p3.2 is the latest stable binary.
I suggest you get the portable version its handy and can be stored anywhere.

Ok locate the application data folder in either the documents and settings or users/ username folder of the system you are using xp or vista, the folders differ.
find your user name and open that folder.
anyway find application folder and open it.
delete the acapella folder in that folder.
close all those windows.
open the c drive
open program files
open dolphin
delete the sam folder.
now you are ready to instal sam 2.50.
Note if you are doing this you should have got the software already from yourdolphin.com.
At this point if you have not got the software then you either need to use nvda, jaws or sight, but then if you know where to go you should have guessed you should have the software ready.
If not, reinstall your old version of sam, you will have to redo these procedures again after you get sam.
if you are an admin or have not got the software and hopefully things will work for you or you can have another system or whatever.
go to www.yourdolphin.com
tab to text only
and push enter.
tab to support and push enter.
tab to updates and pages and push enter.
push control tab till the list of products comes up.
select sam, tab once to continue and hit enter.
control tab to list resolts and push enter.
control tab to a point where you here something other than sam download.
tab once.
you should have the right file.
push enter.
push control tab to download sam (version) and push enter, where version is the number ie 2.50.
save this file to a place you can get it or run the program.
you may get a security message on running things push alt r.
you will get a simple winzip file with 2 icons.
push enter the setup button is selected for you.
realspeak will start
select your language.
push enter.
follow the wizzard.
when the system prompts for reboot, do so.
sam comes up.
Ok, so i’m getting errors.
yeah it seems if you upgrade from sam 2.18 that you will get missing files, you can fix this either by updating to sam 2.5 from 2.18 but a clean install is so much cleaner.
Hal can’t find sam.
ok, well sam is loading everything right now.
although sam does have a nice autodetect on it now.
using nvda, hal 5.2 at least for me did not recognise the checkboxes in sam, open configure sam as you usually do.
if you have a braille display select it from the list, you may deselect vertual braille.
if you are not using a duch tts or terminal citrix server unselect those to.
in fact if you are not using the versions of hal with eloquence or realspeak in them you can deselect all those.
you can also deselect all braille displays you don’t use if not already unselected.
you can also deselect everything else you don’t use, ie acapella, eloquence and realspeak.

ok select sapi4 if you want it.
hit configure.
select the first engine.
push ok.
if you don’t use sapi4 skip this step.
if you sue sapi5 select it hit configure.
select the first voice, or any voice but the first voice is usually the system voice.
hit ok.
restart the system.
sam will work.

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This sounds very interesting. 1 tb of hard drive space? I don’t think I’d ever use all of it, even with the almost 500gb of music we have. Comment if you want on this.

This is an interesting blog post. I wonder why this person thinks he can get away with such things? IP lookups can be made much easier with sites like Sam Spade and others. Who is web sites can also look IP’s besides that one. However, I find that to be the easiest for me to use. I think there may be more, comment if you’d like.

This blog post is very interesting. I’d give it a read if I were you. From Tony Bradley.

Hacker ‘Dark Tangent’ Joins DHS Advisory Council | Threat Level | Wired.com.

Before last month, Erik Weihenmayer, 40, had never seen his young daughter.

But through technology once limited to the imagination of science fiction
writers, Weihenmayer, born sight-impaired, now catches glimpses of people
and things he previously had only been able to touch or hear.

The technology is called BrainPort, and this weekend it will be one of
several jaw-dropping devices on display in Miami at the No Barriers
Festival, an international gathering of physically limited athletes, wounded
soldiers, disabled kids and hopeful parents, and the scientists and doctors
who develop the technology that lets them match the able-bodied step for
step.

”I can’t tell you how amazing and surreal it has been,” Weihenmayer, of
Colorado, says of his BrainPort — one of just three prototypes in
existence. ”This sort of technology is not just ahead of the curve, it’s
miles ahead of anything we’ve seen before,” said Weihenmayer, president of
No Barriers USA, which created the festival.

Weihenmayer, who has been completely blind since age 13, is not seeing in
high resolution or color, but the images are clear enough to make out words,
reach out and pet the dog or see the silhouette of his 8-year-old daughter
Emma and engage in simple pleasures like playing tic-tac-toe or rolling a
ball back and forth with her.

Along with the BrainPort, the festival’s Innovation Village and symposiums
will showcase advanced GPS devices for the blind and ‘’smart” prosthetic
limbs that read and react to brain signals like real nerve endings — the
latter being the creation of MIT professor and festival co-chair Hugh Herr,
who has used them in recent years to resume his rock-climbing hobby. Also on
hand: Molly the ”amputee” pony.

More than the ”wow” factor, experts say, the technology behind the devices
is changing the meaning of ”disabled” and redefining “able-bodied.”

‘There was a time not that long ago when most people might see someone like
me — a paraplegic in a wheelchair — and automatically assume `disabled,’
” says Harry Horgan, a sailor and founder of Shake-a-Leg Miami, the
nonprofit aquatic and sailing center in Coconut Grove that is hosting No
Barriers.

The BrainPort dates to the 1960s, when neuroscientist Paul Bach-y-Rita began
working to develop an artificial sight generator. By the time Bach-y-Rita
died in November 2006, Wicab — his Middleton, Wis., company — had
developed the BrainPort.

”One of Paul’s favorite expressions . . . was that you don’t see with your
eyes, you see with your brain,” says Wicab President Robert Beckman. “Paul
also liked to say that if your eyes or any other sensor are damaged, you can
use an alternate sensor, because the brain is not hard-wired.”

A second BrainPort prototype will be given to another test subject next
week. When the device is cleared for wider use — likely in the next few
months following presumed FDA approval, Beckman says — it will cost about
$10,000.

For all the hope and buzz the BrainPort may generate, some No Barriers
attendees are otherwise preoccupied. ”I’m really looking forward to the
hand cycle,” says Juan Carlos Gil, 27, a sailor and champion hand cyclist
who was born with cerebral palsy and has limited use of his legs.

Gil, who volunteers at Shake-A-Leg Miami, is referring to a new type of
cycle that with the flip of a switch can stand upright.

That’s important, Gil says, because traditional hand cycles have such wide
bases they can’t fit through doorways and other narrow spaces. “So you have
to rely on other people to carry your cycle outdoors and then help you out
and help you into your cycle. This is another step toward independence for
us.”

Technology has redefined what it means to be `disabled’
Devices that allow the blind to ’see’ and prosthetic limbs that react to
brain signals will be on display at this weekend’s No Barriers Festival.
‘Exergaming’ provides hi-tech tools for disabled
Researchers at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis are using hi-tech gaming
equipment that encourages disabled to exercise.
Miami Herald Staff
Erik Weihenmayer: Blind adventurer, father, husband
Erik Weihenmayer lost his sight at age 13, but thanks to a BrainPort vision
device, he has had partial vision restored.
Courtesy of Serac Adventure Films

‘Exergaming’ provides hi-tech tools for disabled
Researchers at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis are using hi-tech gaming
equipment that encourages disabled to exercise.
a.. ‘Exergaming’ provides hi-tech tools for disabled
b.. Erik Weihenmayer: Blind adventurer, father, husband

a.. Photos

The festival, which starts Thursday and runs through Sunday, includes
symposiums, clinics, demonstrations and a regatta at various locations
throughout Miami-Dade. Most activities, including an Innovation Village
offered Friday through Sunday, will take place at Shake-A-Leg Miami, 2620
South Bayshore Dr. in Coconut Grove.

For information or a detailed schedule, call Shake-A-Leg Miami at
305-858-5550 or visit www.nobarriersusa.org.

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jburnett@MiamiHerald.com
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randymax8 wrote on 06/04/2009 09:54:49 AM:
yeah sure, as long as you can pay the bills

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meijerpb wrote on 06/04/2009 04:31:14 AM:
Thank for the article, and indeed the title is spot on. It will be good -
once device safety has been established - to see the Brainport tongue
display technology move out of the lab and into the hands of blind users.
Different people have different needs, preferences and interests, and
healthy competition is in the end good for quality.

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Before last month, Erik Weihenmayer, 40, had never seen his young daughter.

But through technology once limited to the imagination of science fiction
writers, Weihenmayer, born sight-impaired, now catches glimpses of people
and things he previously had only been able to touch or hear.

The technology is called BrainPort, and this weekend it will be one of
several jaw-dropping devices on display in Miami at the No Barriers
Festival, an international gathering of physically limited athletes, wounded
soldiers, disabled kids and hopeful parents, and the scientists and doctors
who develop the technology that lets them match the able-bodied step for
step.

”I can’t tell you how amazing and surreal it has been,” Weihenmayer, of
Colorado, says of his BrainPort — one of just three prototypes in
existence. ”This sort of technology is not just ahead of the curve, it’s
miles ahead of anything we’ve seen before,” said Weihenmayer, president of
No Barriers USA, which created the festival.

Weihenmayer, who has been completely blind since age 13, is not seeing in
high resolution or color, but the images are clear enough to make out words,
reach out and pet the dog or see the silhouette of his 8-year-old daughter
Emma and engage in simple pleasures like playing tic-tac-toe or rolling a
ball back and forth with her.

Along with the BrainPort, the festival’s Innovation Village and symposiums
will showcase advanced GPS devices for the blind and ‘’smart” prosthetic
limbs that read and react to brain signals like real nerve endings — the
latter being the creation of MIT professor and festival co-chair Hugh Herr,
who has used them in recent years to resume his rock-climbing hobby. Also on
hand: Molly the ”amputee” pony.

More than the ”wow” factor, experts say, the technology behind the devices
is changing the meaning of ”disabled” and redefining “able-bodied.”

‘There was a time not that long ago when most people might see someone like
me — a paraplegic in a wheelchair — and automatically assume `disabled,’
” says Harry Horgan, a sailor and founder of Shake-a-Leg Miami, the
nonprofit aquatic and sailing center in Coconut Grove that is hosting No
Barriers.

The BrainPort dates to the 1960s, when neuroscientist Paul Bach-y-Rita began
working to develop an artificial sight generator. By the time Bach-y-Rita
died in November 2006, Wicab — his Middleton, Wis., company — had
developed the BrainPort.

”One of Paul’s favorite expressions . . . was that you don’t see with your
eyes, you see with your brain,” says Wicab President Robert Beckman. “Paul
also liked to say that if your eyes or any other sensor are damaged, you can
use an alternate sensor, because the brain is not hard-wired.”

A second BrainPort prototype will be given to another test subject next
week. When the device is cleared for wider use — likely in the next few
months following presumed FDA approval, Beckman says — it will cost about
$10,000.

For all the hope and buzz the BrainPort may generate, some No Barriers
attendees are otherwise preoccupied. ”I’m really looking forward to the
hand cycle,” says Juan Carlos Gil, 27, a sailor and champion hand cyclist
who was born with cerebral palsy and has limited use of his legs.

Gil, who volunteers at Shake-A-Leg Miami, is referring to a new type of
cycle that with the flip of a switch can stand upright.

That’s important, Gil says, because traditional hand cycles have such wide
bases they can’t fit through doorways and other narrow spaces. “So you have
to rely on other people to carry your cycle outdoors and then help you out
and help you into your cycle. This is another step toward independence for
us.”

Technology has redefined what it means to be `disabled’
Devices that allow the blind to ’see’ and prosthetic limbs that react to
brain signals will be on display at this weekend’s No Barriers Festival.
‘Exergaming’ provides hi-tech tools for disabled
Researchers at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis are using hi-tech gaming
equipment that encourages disabled to exercise.
Miami Herald Staff
Erik Weihenmayer: Blind adventurer, father, husband
Erik Weihenmayer lost his sight at age 13, but thanks to a BrainPort vision
device, he has had partial vision restored.
Courtesy of Serac Adventure Films

‘Exergaming’ provides hi-tech tools for disabled
Researchers at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis are using hi-tech gaming
equipment that encourages disabled to exercise.
a.. ‘Exergaming’ provides hi-tech tools for disabled
b.. Erik Weihenmayer: Blind adventurer, father, husband

a.. Photos

The festival, which starts Thursday and runs through Sunday, includes
symposiums, clinics, demonstrations and a regatta at various locations
throughout Miami-Dade. Most activities, including an Innovation Village
offered Friday through Sunday, will take place at Shake-A-Leg Miami, 2620
South Bayshore Dr. in Coconut Grove.

For information or a detailed schedule, call Shake-A-Leg Miami at
305-858-5550 or visit www.nobarriersusa.org.

BY JAMES H. BURNETT III
jburnett@MiamiHerald.com
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randymax8 wrote on 06/04/2009 09:54:49 AM:
yeah sure, as long as you can pay the bills

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meijerpb wrote on 06/04/2009 04:31:14 AM:
Thank for the article, and indeed the title is spot on. It will be good -
once device safety has been established - to see the Brainport tongue
display technology move out of the lab and into the hands of blind users.
Different people have different needs, preferences and interests, and
healthy competition is in the end good for quality.

Bad Idea, Microsoft. Assholes.

Trend Micro was quoted in this article and Rick sent this through Twitter. I have always stated that however you attack someone whether its a crinme or not should be done to you and that is whats being proposed. Read and comment here or by E-mail to me.

What do you guys think of this article sent through by Tony Bradley on Twitter? I could see both sides, but only time will tell on what exactly will happen. This article is from the register, but he sent it along. It does look interesting to read it and figure out your own opinion on whether this would work. Protection should start at the root. If the root is the DNS servers, then thats where it should be. Comment here if you wish or by E-mail. My E-mail address can be found on the about page of this blog.

This is interesting. One of my twitter people sent this, its an interesiting concept. I hope it doesn’t cell, its getting too big for them to sell it now.

Tony Bradley twitted this. This is very interesting. I’ll have to look at this paper. Hope you will find it interesting, too.

Tony Bradley sent a tweet of this story. This is not good, although I did see the warnings on the twitter blog. Check this out and keep informed.

From Tony Bradley. Vry interesting.

You should get this optional update if nothing else.
Note! at the time of writing users of everything over ie6 maybe 7 definately 8 and maybe its all of them.
Well windowsupdate is currently overloaded.
You may have to wait for an age for the site to get up.
you may crash and have to restart, the site may not display, you may get 0×80 errors, you may get malware errors from ie8.
It took me the last 45 minutes to get everything up to date.
most of that was running windows update and ms update.
These updates don’t need you to restart but restart anyway just to make sure.
close all other sites when doing the update to.

What else can go wrong with certificates?
This is to just cover myself.
Note! this will not solve your issue if you have a flat cmos battery, or a power or internet falier happens during a windows time sink.
I suggest you turn windows time sink off in date and time to avoid this issue.
search google for dimention4.
I think its on www.thinkman.com but who knows.
v5.0 is the last version so far.
Run this every so often especially at day light and standard time changes.

The first part of this article covers cmos battery, the second part covers other issues.
1. replace the cmos battery.
2. get someone to help you to set date and time in the bios.
3. continue to part 2.
part 2.
If you are unlucky enough to have a laptop or not desktop will work.
and have either a power or net falier, during a windows time sin,k, note more likely a network falier will cause this power is just either or since I had a net falier, well if you are unlucky enough to have an outage of your net say something overloads your ups and your router disconnects forcing a restart of the router during a windows time sinc and you have not turned off windows time sinc.
This is what will happen.
restart your system.
You will get several weird things.
1. firstly all certificates will be expired, no internet access basically.
2. antivirus and other programs will say you are out of date even if you update.
3. security programs etc will act real strange and do things because you are at the wrong time.
If you recieve any of these things run www.windowsupdate.com
You will be told the certifficate has expired, and to change your time.
check date in time, you may find that you are something like 2-10 years out and your time is like midnight or some such.
1. set the date to the current date.
2. set the time to current time.
3. set timezone to current timezone.
4. set seconds to 0.
5 push ok.
6 run dimention4 or simular you are probably a day out still.
7 now disable and reenable your security modules one at a time making sure that you turn off and on all your modules as they really don’t know what is going on.
8 now update your blogs because if you did any enteries in your blogs they will be wrong, in my case livejournal locked me out till I changed the dates on the posts I was doing for several days.
I only had avg 7 at the time.
Note if you have destructive security tools and other things that happen when things expire then you will have to reset things.
If you need to reformat.

Ok, ok its not likely you will have any of this stuff.
have a ups if you can, and make sure you change the battery every so often.
How do I know when the battery is flat?
you don’t, just change it every year or so.
if your system dies during a cut or a serge restarts it, pull the power out the ups.
if it dies then the battery is dead.
There is probably a good way to figure this out.
later all

Mary reviews this, and it looks good and looks like it may even be accessible. I would suspect there is a 30 day trial or something similar. Mac users who are blind aught to report back to me and let me know if this is accessible. I’d be interested.

OK, this was sent to me on the 20th of this month, and I’m playing catchup. This is not good if you are using a mac, thats for sure. Hey apple? Have yo9u yet patched all of this since Mary posted this article? I hope so. This does not sound good, click through and read it.

I think one of the accounts that I had added to mine and was retweeting everything is spam, and I asked the spam account to look, but never got a reply. But be that as it may, this article seems interesting to spot the spammers and bots on Twitter. Lets go fight! thanks Tony from Twitter, one of my followers, for this. One more from him if I like what I read.

I don’t have much time right now to read this, but better post this. I’ll read it when I get back. Let me know your thoughts.

1. Philmore productions talks about a new service that he is working on called Twitter by phone.
2. Gordon of My Telespace reviews a product called Voice on the go.
3. The rest of the podcast deals with Trend Micro Newsletters and some of the content in them. I also cover some of the blog as well.

The file is over 140mb, so I hope you enjoy it as much as I have putting it together and I also wanted to let you know that it is over 2 hours long. I know, I know, its long, however, a lot to cover. I’ll try to record as I get things and release more often. Enjoy.

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This is a very interesting opinion from Mary. We shouldn’t try to just tell users to install stuff, we should go after whoever is allowing them to be run on the net. All the providers who host files that can do damage should be taken off line. I don’t care where they are in the world. Read the article, then come back here and comment if you wish.

Posted to my E-mail toward the end of April, I feel this is still important. Feel free to pass this along and comment.

This is a long read, found this on twitter, thanks to Brandon B from Canada. This backs up what I’ve been saying for a long time along with some others. Bring on the facts, man.

For people who are blind or have vision impairments , accessing a phone in a typical office can be a difficult challenge. Caller ID and other important pieces of information are presented visually on the LCD display of most phones. While the numbers and other buttons on a phone are easy for a blind or visually impaired person to push because they are tactile, the information on the LCD display has been impossible to access . . . until now.

GW Micro and Tenacity have joined together to make office phones accessible to blind and visually impaired people through the use of GW Micro’s Window-Eyes and Tenacity’s accessaphone. accessaphone provides audible caller ID information from the telephone as well as audible message waiting, alternative input methods to conduct call control including intuitive keyboard hot keys (i.e. Alt A to Answer, Alt H to Hold and Alt C to Conference, etc.), a call log, the option to keep notes about the call, and much more.

“While accessaphone does include built-in text-to-speech, some users may select the option to silence accessaphone and enjoy the added benefits of using Window-Eyes.” said Dustin Armstrong, Director of Operations of Tenacity . “GW Micro has been a force in making various technologies accessible to blind consumers,” said Dan Weirich, GW Micro’s Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “We are very excited to work with Tenacity to help continue to make the workplace even more accessible.”

For pricing and more information on accessaphone (www.accessaphone.com), contact sales@accessaphone.com. Blind and visually impaired consumers who want to use accessaphone will need the latest version of Window-Eyes (www.gwmicro.com). After installing Window-Eyes, a free Window-Eyes script must be downloaded from GW Micro’s Script Central that allows Window-Eyes to work with accessaphone located at www.gwmicro.com/Scripts/Accessaphone. For pricing and more information on Window-Eyes, please contact GW Micro at (260) 489-3671, or via email at sales@gwmicro.com.