This is quite interesting.

finally there is an update list for august.
this is for win7 but most of it should be the same.
scannel
smb tcp/ip
service share feature kernal and kernal mode drivers
windows shell.
dotnet 3.51
thats probably most of them.
I probably missed some others like the remote rdp service and I think
an authentication server share but thats it.

Well, you don’t really see pencil news, but here is some pencil news. Yes, its been awhile since anyone’s posted here, but thats the way it goes. Check this pencil article out and let me know what you think.

I should probably thank the net gods whoever they are since I have no
podcasts or extra stuff over the load of stuff I got on monday, which
means I have no real rush to do.
there are about 2 things I need to handle today, and those should be
done by about 11.
after which its a nice walk and lunch.
followed by me processing bits and bobs which can lead to more extra finds

Great article forewarning us of whats to come. FYI.

BTW, while this article is interesting and can be proven useful, its always up to the individual what they want to do. It is informative, so you mize well read this anyway.

I thought everyone should see this, since i’m looking at the trend micro blog. Might want to know aobut this now. This is a good thing.

now for the articles.
you need to read http://therangerstation.blogspot.com to understand this.
HOwever on the subject of readers and such, I feel that although
the mac and voiceover is a real good reader the fact is that its
still a lot of cash for a mac more than a pc.
I am also not a big fan of the touch screen.
the keyboard is much better for me at least.
Though I have friends and fammily that use touchscreens including
blind friends that can go real fast over them.
I have never used a cellphone for anything bar messenging and talking
mostly its texting.
As for the screenreader industry yeah apple sertainly has got it
there all the companies are going and suing eachother and such.
I have not gone up to win7 because of the cost to update all that
software especially when I have no use for the extra upgrades
including anything over ie6.
If I had a choice between xp and something else I’d do xp since i
don’t need anything else.
I think though that as blind people we should bite the bullet, the
classic windows interface is the best interface for the blind.
Actually dos is the best interface for the blind or linux.
Since not all of us use linux or wish to and since dos is really not
an option anymore we will have to get used to it.
as for the ribbon, I’ve always got the menu thing going for me aand
so thats what I use.
I have never needed any advanced office features either.
I know classic interface addins for office exist.
I still use an old windows messenger.
I still use a lot of old software because it works and works well.
This doesn’t mean I havn’t bothered about changing.
I can technically run 7 on at least 2 of the 3 systems I have.
I have ie8 on 2 of those systems and could run it on my own if i so wanted.
I have no care for all the search boxes and other things in win7 but
if that is the way we go I suppose I will just have to get used to it.
I am not ruling out speech recognition though.

I suppose in the case of screenreaders none of them gwmicro, freedom
scientiffic or dolphin oceanic has the entire market of vi users.
neither does nvda but still.

And lets not forget the older generation that can’t afford anything much.
I don’t mind apple taking over everything either to be honest, if
macos was the first os and apple was in the same position ms was and
it was ms that started pcs after apple then it would probably fail.
One thing I really like about apple’s in general is the scifi tech
already in them.
ie buttons in the keyboard, and the slot drive.
they have and are quite quiet systems their pc brothers still make
some noise even the quiet ones.

President Obama’s electric car subsidies are snobby and foolish. – By Charles Lane – Slate Magazine.

before I comment on this one.

Just reading this first page makes me wonder what is up with this world. Not allowing people to use what they want because you can’t monitor them? Hello? Its called privacy, those of us in the U.S. and Canada have, although we may be loosing it soon, but not like this. Wow, just wow.

AppleInsider | Apple sues “inferior quality” iPod, iPhone and iPad accessory makers.

FBI details worst social networking cyber crime problems | NetworkWorld.com Community.

and I’m interested in your thoughts.

As the month starts, we are looking a little at twitter, and found this. I have a funny feeling that this will get more prevelant in the years to come.

Google Says It “Overestimated” Complete Block of Web Search in China [UPDATED].

OK, first of all, I do want to comment. GW Micro for some time now, has had the office ribbon accessible with WWindow-Eyes for some time now. However, while reading this post, I commend Freedom Scientific to come up with a method for their product to interact with the ribbon. Second, at least with the Braille Sense, I did enter characters in to the PC, and I’ve Used Window-Eyes with no problem with some of the commands. But again, Freedom Scientific should be commended to implementing this feature. I happen to agree that this post does raise some concerns for the workplace, something that GW Micro has strived on for some time now. I bet System Access has done the same, and the free readers as well. Only time will tell on what they will talk about prior to the release of JFW version 12.

My thoughts are that it will take time. I have seen some large bills which I can read, some 5′s, and 20′s. I’ve seen publically from blind people that we shouldn’t have to change the way the bill feels. We do have braille access once we get the appropriate device, I have one, and have brailled my bills, but that isn’t all that practical as braille rubs out over time. I forget the name of the product, but I think we got mine from Maxi Aids in New York. Its called something to the effect of a money labeler or at least thats what I call it. What specific tactile ideas do they have in mind? I really didn’t see any clear cut note of what they wanted to do but one ot two dots, or some type of design I’m not sure of. There’s some questions near the end, which may be of use, and I’ll have to see what my dad says on this and I’m sending a copy of this to him. But for my readers, what do you think?

This article seems very interesting. 0 to 60 in a little over 3 seconds, now thats fast.I see this one being re-tweeted for sure.

This is very interesting, but a dangerous thing we’re looking at here.

Interesting. I wonder what this is going to be about? I mean, you can’t just listen to any old call, not unless there’s a way to do it from different cities or states, I guess we’ll have to see if there is more on this.

1. We’ve got lots of stuff from the blog and Trend Micro.
2. We talk about http and https as it pertains to banking and how it works.
3. We’ve got different segments of technology that Herbie and I thought of interest.
4. We’ve got a nice segment dealing with speech synthesizers and one of the groups from magnatune is featured called The Bots.
5. We also feature other magnatune artists as well.

So, this podcast includes a little bit of music, tech, and fun! So, quit waiting around as I did posting it, and get to listening! You can listen to it by first downloading your 157.93mb file right here then you can take it with you no matter where you are and check out the cast. Enjoy!

What can we do to make sure we’re protected at the ATM and the bank?

I wonder how many comply with this?

This is rather interesting. Don’t think I’ve heard of this before.

Watch out for this one. FYI.

This is interesting. Now this I’d have to call, beta testing and getting paid. Non-stop beta testing.

This is very interesting, to say the least. Whats going to be next?

This is very interesting. What do you guys think?

This is very interesting. What do you guys think?

Well. I’ve rarely had problems with dropped calls on my n6650 or n75, however I don’t expect it to be perfect. Once, I was on a call, and I’ve known a particular area i travel known to have issues with signal, and sure enough that was the area I had issues and thats where it dropped. So, Apple, wake up, read this article no matter where you get it, and figure out how to start telling the truth. Bleh.

I wanted to get at this article tonight since i got it through Twitter, and before I went to bed. I’ll be talking about this on an upcoming podcast, and may play this article in full. This is going to get interesting. What do you think we should do to help combat the illegal activitty of the web? Computers can’t be perfect.

Google had potential, just didn’t do something with it. Figured they weren’t going anywhere. UUnlocked phones are good people, but what turned people away was the price tag of $500 minimum I think it was. So thats why it busted. Sell it for less than a hundred, than you’ve got people.

Interesting ideas, F-Secure. The one article I posted mentioned that the persoon had mentioned that the light was on and they didn’t have a use for it at the time. But interesting ideas just the same.

Interesting.

This is very interesting. Web cams to spy on you? I’ve never heard of this, but if this is a beginning trend, its definitely going to get worse.

This is rather interesting. What do you all think of this?

I wish I could do this, that would be fun. Check this out.

All I have to say is interesting.

OK Ubber Twitter, this is not good. at least tell your users what you’re doing?

New Virus Targets Industrial Secrets – NYTimes.com.

and let me know what you think of this. It looks real, and it is coming. Coming soon.

Well, this article is very interesting. You never know what you’re going to get now, and this is sad. We just need to be aware of whats out there.

I did not see this until now, but I think this is better late than never. We should all take note of this, even though July 13th is passed.

We rarely here see anything in articles dealing with braille. When I saw The Ranger Station on Twitter post this article I had to jump on this one. It just goes to show what MENVI is trying to do, albeit music braille. But before you can learn music braille, you must learn literary braille. I did compete in the Braille Challenge before when I was in school, and it was fun. Don’t remember if I won, think a friend of mine did win. I hope you enjoy this article, and comment on what you think of this one.

Well well, I think i aught to check out the movie and see what I think for myself, and people should too. Just don’t know much about the movie, but check this article out.

I don’t remember ever hearing about this type of thing, but this technology does sound interesting. Hiding files within files. Sounds like fun.

So, apple is still not getting the support even after this. I said they aught to at least give out the cases along other people saying the same thing. But if the case doesn’t fix the issue, then what will? Very interesting, check out the latest in this.

This is very interesting, comments?

So, now the update won’t install, and Apple is blaming people for hitting the USB drive etc. when they may not even be doing any of that? Oh boy.

I remember seeing this cause I went to log in, but then it wanted my google account and never really understood, check this out.

OK, I know some people are going to go off with this one. So, the comment boards await you. Register first, then feel free. I’ll definitely be talking about this as podcast 119 is still being created. Wow.

Some car news. Interesting to say the least.

Interesting post, and interesting ideas. Anny more?

This would be nice for cell phones especially since I can get two to maybe three days on a phone charge, I’ve had to take it to work but it takes about 2 and a half hours to fully charge and I could miss calls. So, this would be good.

Here’s that article about press conference I mentioned in the previous post. We’ll have to see what they have to say for themselves. Won’t we?

So, now Apple should give away these bumpers. On top of that, I read but can’t find an article as of yet, but they are going to hold a press conference? Well, Apple may be waking up to the fact that there is a problem. Vey good, Apple. Lets keep watch.

This was interesting to read. Mozilla did the right thing when they found out and it seems like Firefox will notify users to remove the program once it is blacklisted, so this is interesting. I’ve never heard of this before,, but it is good security, and good ideas. What do you guys think of this? Would IE have something like this for their add ons? I doubt it.

I’m linking to the full page version of this, an article about NVDA for those who don’t know about it. Written by one of my followers and one in the computer tech and purchasing field for people with disabilities. Give this a read.

OK, this is interesting. What does toyota say?

teenagers-moving-away-from-facebook-blame-boredom-702725?src=rss&attr=all from techradar.com – StumbleUpon.

This is rather interesting. So, now from this article it claims to be a software issue? Really? Oh my. What is apple really saing about this?

Nice.

Now on to the tips.
1. don’t think that just because a driver in windows update looks
like its the right one it is, it looked like an intel extreme gpg but
it didn’t load right and luckily the del system fixed itself.
Be care full of visual c 2010 it leaves temp files in the root of the
drive, remember to hide your protected files before doing a killing
of things i almost killed io.sys.
3. speedfan at www.almico or is it almiko.com is good for you,
search for speedfan on google.com
5. izarc is bundled with eyecandy extra offer software this aint
spyware but its annoying none the less.
6. at least when its updated to handle the newer files for isetup
universal extracter is good for you.
7. smaller drives, ie 40gb or less will fragment more quickly,
system restore will do this as well as other things.
8. slower hard drives slow things down.
Thats about that.
Thats probably the shortened down version of the things I have found
during updating an old 2.66ghz system with 512mb ram.
I actually need to finnish that today.
then I will get some much needed cash.
Oh, did I mention cash?
I meant chocolate because thats what I am payed in.
later all

Apple, grow the hell up! Check this crap out.

Interesting.

This is utterly stupid. Why not call them up and settle this over the phone or fly to Los Angeles to deal with it, instead of suing right away? If you tried to talk to them, meet them, and they still didn’t do what they said, then I’d say to sue, but from this, it seems like the guy is suing based on this contract and no talks were ever made. Stupid. Comments? Sign up for the blog or send me an E-mail. Bleh.

I haven’t seen anything from Rick in awhile, so this was rather interesting, and maybe something good? Might want to check this out.

This is rather interesting, don’t remember seeing this before, worth the read.

its the 9th junly nz time 8th us.
I suppose I can start recieving answers or rather questions.
like right now so.
This stuff will be uploaded on the blog through dropbox, on bct if I
figure out how and probably somewhere else to not sure.
if you have a slower connection you may wait for the inclusion in the
tech cast since this stuff will be shared there to.
there will at all times be 2 coppies of the cast running, one within
the system and one outside the system on the recorder.
the recorder will have all the activities and the internal one will
have everything else though I may actually not bother now I think
of it since again I need to worry about things.
still there will be files.
later all