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VIP: Explosive Accessible Technology
This week the Cool Blind Tech Team discusses some of the important questions surrounding the headlines in the tech world. Join Joel, Jessica, and Nelson as they share their opinions on whether or not a companies reputation should influence their decision on what accessible technology to buy. These answers and more are just waiting for you to press play and listen.
Listen to Your Computer’s Performance With CHARM
There are many apps out there that will monitor and present information about your computer, but one in particular does it in a unique way. CHARM from DragonApps is a simple Windows utility that sits in your system tray and reports changes in your computer’s activity such as CPU load, ram and disk usage—just by using sounds!
Agnitio: A Speech Recognition Program That Makes Navigating Windows Easier.
Agnitio is a speech recognition program for
Windows that lets you control your computer by using your voice. Anitio is a free download. It lets you perform basic commands, open browsers, and make Google searches. It runs on Windows 10, Windows 8 and 8.1, and Windows 7. Give it a try by clicking here.
Introducing Tile: A Wireless way to Find Anything You Have Misplaced.
Have you ever misplaced something: like your keys, wallet, or phone? Well, Tile can help with that, and do even more.
Apple Adds New Features to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote for iOS and Mac.
Apple’s productivity suite of applications, also called iWork, received a significant update to version 3.1, with a host of new features. Pages is a word processing application, Numbers is a spreadsheet application, and Keynote is a slideshow presentation application. The full list of improvements is listed below:
TalkBack 5.2 Gets Major Changes in Beta Release
Version numbers are not always what they are cracked to be. Windows 10, for example, has kept the version at 10.0, with only incremental build numbers which are prefixed by the month and year.
Cool Picks: March 26, 2017
Join Jessica, James, and Nelson for another Cool Picks as they discuss the latest happenings in accessible tech!
VIP: To Measure Or Not to Measure?
Join Jessica, James, and Nelson for another exciting VIP as they discuss the latest happenings in accessible tech. Lots of excitement this week, and we’ve got you covered! Here are our stories
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Cool Clips: March 21, 2017
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