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Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)?

Just what does it take to switch to desktop Linux (part 2)?Compiz Fusion's magnifier plugins and ADA complianceI've done a test in using a magnifier and enhanced desktop zoom plug-in in Compiz Fusion and it lacked support for input tracking. For example, run openOffice and zoom in until you don't...

Tags: Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Operating systems, Freedom Scientific, Compiz-fusion, Zoomtext, Linux, Americans with Disabilities Act, desktop, WinDOS, Ubuntu, desktop Linux

Discussion threads 2008-12-01

Top national advocate for the disabled sets terms for endorsement of OpenDocument Format

Top national advocate for the disabled sets terms for endorsement of OpenDocument FormatFreedom Scientific and JawsFreedom Scientific and Jaws are about to become casualties of this whole issue. By not jumping up and immediately proclaiming support for ODF they areseriously jepordizing their business. Now you have thousands if not...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Recruitment & Selection, Peter Korn, JAWS, OpenDocument Format, accessability, Freedom Scientific, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-11-17

JAWS 6.20.065 (Windows)

The most popular screen reader worldwide, JAWS? for Windows works with your PC to provide access to today?s software applications and the Internet. With its internal software speech synthesizer and the computer?s sound card, information from the screen is read aloud, providing technology to access a wide variety of information,...

Tags: Braille, Freedom Scientific, Training Tutorial, Microsoft Windows, Tools & Techniques, Operating Systems, Software, Management

Software downloads 2005-08-26

Freedom Scientific USB Sync 3.7.1.3244 (Windows)

Freedom Scientific USB Sync

Tags: Freedom Scientific, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2003-09-01

PAC Mate Braille Display n/a (Windows)

PAC Mate Braille Display

Tags: Braille, Freedom Scientific, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2003-07-21

Additional Resources

Hacker scores by posting East Anglia global warming emails

Control over eating a hamburgerGood grief please stop the madness of all of these un-truths about global warming trash.I want a burger I will eat a burger, if I want to drive to town to ride around so be it, if I want to raise cattle and have them pass...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, burger, PCB, global warming

Discussion threads 2009-11-20

In Smartphone Wars, Darwinism Triumphs Over Intelligent Design

OT, but what the heck.The remark:"...even the mechanism called Natural Selection referred to in Evolution, bears the mark of underlying intelligence, since the only way such a sophisticated mechanism could be implemented, is via a highly sophisticated and capable intelligence."flies in the face of established creationist beliefs. The creationist...

Tags: Mobile operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Handhelds, Smart phones, Intelligent Design, deity, Microsoft Windows Mobile, theory, Smartphone

Discussion threads 2009-11-08

Washington: lots of talk about global warming

Fuller: Too many blogs about the LIE of global warming.Global warming b*llshit demolished:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1533290/Climate-chaos-Dont-believe-it.htmlGuys (or should I say - Fuller), stop LYING.Also, stop saying there's a problem and then coming up with burdening 'solutions' to non-existent problems. The latest FASCIST idea: Blame Children for 'global warming'. Yeah right.http://unitedfamiliesinternational.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/children-to-blame-for-climate-change/Fuller, why are you...

Tags: global warming, carbon dioxide

Discussion threads 2009-11-03

Science boycotts over envirnomental issues?

bad ideaSo, like, back in 1933, boycott Einstein and other scientists in Germany because you didn't like Nazi laws as of 1933?Probably not a good idea.Let's just boycott all other countries because they are all full of foreigners.Eco-worshippers are a bunch of crybabiesSure... let's boycott everyone that doesn't agree with...

Tags: boycott

Discussion threads 2009-11-02

denial:global warming=creationism:evolution?

Wow!This is the first time 100% have agreed with me for a microsecond!RE: denial:global warming=creationism:evolution?Somebody hasn't done their homework on the Scope's trial. Just a quick overview; 1) The Scopes trial was sponsored by the ACLU (they wanted to test the Butler (anti-Darwinism act) in the court system;2) John Scopes...

Tags: global warming, American Civil Liberties Union, Dover

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Americans do not agree on global warming

Americans do not agree on global warmingFamous Lenin quote...Yes, the Communist Leader Lenin is known for this quote; 'A lie told often enough becomes the truth'....Obama is nothing more than a closet Communist, he wants Americans to suffer, look at the damage he has done telling GM & Chrysler to...

Tags: global warming, survey

Discussion threads 2009-05-19

Here comes some R and D: nanotech in carville

Some brave Angelenos will be working on nano-tech for combatting global warming. Yes, right there amid freeways and palpable smog and all the gas-burning cars in Los Angeles, some engineers will be using federal money to find nano-ways to more efficiently capture solar energy. Also, they're looking for...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Car, California, Nanotechnology, DOE, Telecom & Utilities, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-05

(Photos: USAF Thunderbirds ready for air-show duty)

(Photos: USAF Thunderbirds ready for air-show duty)I must be aloneI love aircraft but in this time I think the pollution from these people and a heck of a lot of the other useless flights should be severely restricted. One of the airshows puts more pollution into the atmosphere in...

Tags: Aerospace & Defense, aircraft, USAF Thunderbirds, car, photograph

Discussion threads 2009-05-04

iCalamus 1.16 (Mac)

iCalamus is the publisher for Mac OS X, by invers Software from Loeningen, Germany. The DTP program can be used lightly as a feather and offers newbies and pros in Desktop Publishing all kinds of freedom to publish their ideas. iCalamus costs 129 EUR. The unregistered version has some restrictions,...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Layout, iCalamus, Tools & Techniques, Desktop Publishing, Apple Mac OS X, Management, Software, Operating Systems, Apple Mac OS

Software downloads 2009-04-24

Plug-in cars? Not so easy does it...

Plug-in cars? Not so easy does it...It's OK to be a contrarianIt's OK to be a contrarian and say this is all bunk, but please present some evidence and cite some references when you do so.It's a waste of our time to be told things like [i]"scientists had a...

Tags: car, hybrid, Plug-in car, plug-in, fuel cost

Discussion threads 2009-04-15

Has the UK gone too far in social media education?

I have to share a cartoon that made its way to me last week (yes, I'm as behind in my blogging as I am in my day job, my spring yard work, and virtually every other aspect of my life) and then give a bit of thought to the story...

Tags: Education, Curriculum, Social Media, U.K., Twitter, Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-03-29

Here's one view of a green future: more jobs and healthier planet

Here's one view of a green future: more jobs and healthier planetThe luddite denialists will do everything to prevent it from happeningThey will deny it, they will call it a hoax, they'll claim they have "scientific" evidence on the contrary, etc."The report sees nearly eight million green energy jobs by...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, job, healthier planet, green future, SQC, cleaner energy, hoax

Discussion threads 2009-03-12

Listening to President Obama: What Price Citizenship?

Listening to President Obama: What Price Citizenship?The Promised Price of Global CitizenshipI fear for our weakness to succumb to new ideals. A great false hope has been instilled into many Americans. A great calamity has been promised by our new VP. I feel a great sadness for all that follow...

Tags: Government, worlds economy, Obama, Barack Obama

Discussion threads 2009-01-20

The Gupta choice

The Gupta choiceWe are doomed.Why stop at an obesity tax? Why not a risky sex tax? You know, all those questions they ask you when you give blood? (Have you ever, even once, had sex with another man?)We could have a risky behavior tax. Do you...

Tags: Taxes, Free trade, thought police, tax, cigarette, obesity tax, fatty, risk

Discussion threads 2009-01-07

Climate vagaries and the zdnet time machine

Climate vagaries and the zdnet time machineInformation sources and observational dataThought I would give some information sources for the "other side" on the debate with the IPCC:The Heartland Institute's environment page: http://www.heartland.org/suites/environment/index.htmlIcecap: http://icecap.us/ BTW they have an article saying some Democrats want to delay implementation of Obama's cap...

Tags: Relative Humidity, Gore, climate model

Discussion threads 2008-12-13