Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, June 12, 2014 - Volume 461
The Week's News in Access Technology

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Greetings,

Since it isn't a very busy news week we'll catch up on some new and updated articles from Gizmo first:

1A) Probably the Best Free Security List in the World:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/probably-best-free-security-list-world.htm

1B) How To Avoid Spam:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-avoid-getting-spammed.htm

1C) How to Protect Your Online Privacy:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-protect-your-online-privacy.htm

1D) How to Stay Safe While Online:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-stay-safe-while-online.htm

1E) How to Know If Your Computer Is Infected:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-know-if-your-computer-infected.htm

1F) How to Tell if a File is Malicious:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-tell-if-file-malicious.htm

1G) How to Tell If A Website Is Dangerous:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/how-tell-if-website-dangerous.htm

1H) How to Deal with the Ransomware Called CryptoLocker
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GizmosTechTips/~3/hwd-9D7wK_w/how-deal-ransomware-called-cryptolocker.htm

2) Learn some lesser-known techniques for navigating Microsoft Office with JAWS, other new JAWS tips, and some information about goings-on at Freedom Scientific on Tek Talk on GMT Tuesday, 17 June at 00:00:
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rsc9613dc89eb2

3) The Kindle Android App Gets Audible Integration That Provides an Option To Easily Switch Between Reading And Listening:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/06/10/kindle-android-app-gets-audible-integration-provides-option-easily-switch-reading-listening/

4) Thanks to iMore, we learn "How to set up, back up, restore, and update your iPhone or iPad using iCloud":
http://www.imore.com/how-to-setup-iphone-ipad-icloud

5) Ai Squared is pleased to announce a free ZoomText Mac update (1.1.2) which includes improvements for mouse tracking, the focus enhancement, and several bugs fixes including support for QuickBooks!
http://www.aisquared.com/news/more/zoomtext_mac_112_released?utm_content=buffer30268&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The June 2014 issue of the Braille Monitor contains several opinion pieces related to adaptive technology:

6A) When Just Listening Is Not Enough: Google Falls Short On Accessibility for the Blind:
https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm14/bm1406/bm140603.htm

6B) What Will It Take for Google to Find Its Voice:
https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm14/bm1406/bm140604.htm

6C) Knowing What Is Good About the iPhone and What Is Not:
https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm14/bm1406/bm140608.htm

6D) And Comparing the Windows Computer with the Mac:
https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm14/bm1406/bm140612.htm

7) This page contains an Alphabetical Listing of All Commercial DVDs With Audio Description, a table with 389 movies:
http://www.acb.org/adp/dvdsalpha.html?utm_content=buffere4a6d&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

8) This article is entitled, "Using Braille with iOS, What's it Like?":
http://atmac.org/using-braille-with-ios-whats-it-like?utm_content=buffer92711&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

9) This post is labeled a diary of Do's and Don'ts in NVDA tickets, add-ons and what not:
http://joslee22590.blogspot.com/2014/06/nvdasr-diary-of-dos-and-donts-in-nvda.html?spref=tw

10) Sticking with NVDA, the NVDA Add-on Development Guide is now ready for study and application:
https://bitbucket.org/nvdaaddonteam/devguide

11) BGT, Blastbay Game Toolkit, is a free toolkit which allows you to produce your own audio games from the ground up, without having any prior knowledge of computer programming at all:
http://www.blastbay.com/bgt.php

12) Some low-cost tutorials and related downloads are to be found on the Pro Tools with Speech Page:
http://protoolswithspeech.com/

Turning to audio:

13A) Learn about OrCam Vision System in Episode 1424 of Eyes on Success:
http://www.eyesonsuccess.net/

13B) BlindPodcaster explains Switching voices on any Android device:
http://blindpodcaster.com/tech-bits-switching-voices-on-any-android-device/

13C) Talking Apps Episode 5 discusses WWDC 2014 and Third-Party Keyboards in iOS 8:
http://www.appcessible.net/talking-apps-episode-5-wwdc-2014-and-third-party-keyboards-in-ios-8/

13D) An AppleVis Quick Tip: Record Your Voice and System Sounds in Audio Hijack Pro With the Help of the LineIn Application:
http://applevis.com/podcast/episodes/quick-tip-record-your-voice-and-system-sounds-audio-hijack-pro-help-linein

And finally, from Serotalk come:

13E) SeroSpectives: This Month in Tech for May 2014:
http://serotalk.com/2014/06/06/serospectives-this-month-in-tech-for-may-2014/

13F) And Triple Click Home, Episode 30:
http://tripleclickhome.com/2014/06/11/triple-click-home-episode-30-the-secret-slide/

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