Coming up on Main Menu Live for the week of October 3

Hello Everyone, 

 

This week we bring to you two hours of Main Menu Live!  Darrell Shandrow, Jeff Bishop, Randy Knapp, Ray Bronk and Rick Harmon discuss building computers and maintaining PC hardware from a blind perspective.  Randy, Ray and Rick bring us their particular insights, techniques, tips and tricks from their years of experience building and fixing computers.  While many blind technology users may not consider hardware work to be a good, safe idea for the blind to undertake, our panel of experts will explain how it can be accomplished almost without need of sighted assistance for most tasks.

 

Here is how to participate in the show: 

 

The number to call into the show is 866-400-5333.
You may email your questions to:
mainmenu@acbradio.org
You may also interact with the show via MSN (Windows Live) Messenger. The MSN Messenger ID to add is:
mainmenu@acbradio.org 

 

Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the Main
Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is:
main-menu-subscribe@googlegroups.com
. Come join an already lively group of users. 

 

Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are: 

 

Main Menu -http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenu
Main Menu Live -http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenulive 

 

Main Menu and Main Menu Live can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific, and at 1 universal (GMT) on Wednesday mornings on the ACB Radio
Main Stream channel.  

 

Follow this link to listen to the show: 

 

http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=8 

 

Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow
The Main Menu Production Team

Please visit http://BlindWebAccess.com and sign the petition asking Yahoo! to make their CAPTCHA accessible!
Darrell Shandrow - Accessibility Evangelist
Information should be accessible to us without need of translation by another person.
Blind Access Journal blog and podcast: http://www.blindaccessjournal.com
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Coming up on Main Menu and Main Menu Live for the week of September 26

Hello Everyone,

 

We have a brand new Main Menu and Main Menu Live for you all this week!

 

During the first hour of Main Menu, Darrell Shandrow demonstrates the Blogger blogging platform from Google and the Bloglines web based RSS feed aggregator and reader from Ask.com.  Learn how you can quickly and easily make yourself known on the web by way of the blogosphere and keep track of your favorite blogs, podcasts and all web sites that provide syndicated content by way of Atom or RSS feeds.

 

During the second hour of Main Menu Live, join us as we discuss all things RSS, including feed readers, aggregators, podcatching software and more.  If you have always wondered what this RSS thing is all about, now is your chance to call or write with your questions.

 

Here is how to participate in the show:

 

The number to call into the show is 866-400-5333.
You may email your questions to: mainmenu@acbradio.org
You may also interact with the show via MSN (Windows Live) Messenger. The MSN Messenger ID to add is: mainmenu@acbradio.org

 

Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the Main Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is: main-menu-subscribe@googlegroups.com. Come join an already lively group of users.

 

Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are:

 

Main Menu -http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenu
Main Menu Live -http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenulive

 

Main Menu and Main Menu Live can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific, and at 1 universal (GMT) on Wednesday mornings on the ACB Radio Main Stream channel.

 

Follow this link to listen to the show:

 

http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=8

 

Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow
The Main Menu Production Team

Update for Main Menu Live for this week

Hello Everyone,

We have received some late breaking news about the NLS digital talking book
program and we will feature a short presentation all about it on Main Menu
Live before our discussion about blogging. Come and find out more about
this new program for those who now own the Victor Reader Stream. Main Menu
Live begins this evening at 2 universal, 10:00PM Eastern, 7:00PM Pacific on
ACB Radio Mainstream.

Jeff Bishop

Coming up on Main Menu and Main Menu Live for the week of September 12

During the first hour of Main Menu, Neal Ewers demonstrates the Zoom H2 digital audio recorder and Rick Harmon presents the SkRead utility for automatically announcing various Skype events.

During the second hour of Main Menu Live, join our panel of blind bloggers as we discuss participation in the blogosphere from an accessibility perspective. Nickie Coby will talk about Live Journal, Jeff Bishop will inform us all about Community Server and Darrell Shandrow will cover Blogger. If you have been reading blogs for quite some time and would like to learn more about how you, too, can become part of the action, this is your time to ask the experts!

Here is how to participate in the show:

• The number to call into the show is 866-400-5333.


• You may email your questions to: mainmenu@acbradio.org


• You may also interact with the show via MSN (Windows Live) Messenger. The MSN Messenger ID to add is: mainmenu@acbradio.org


• Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the Main Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is: main-menu-subscribe@googlegroups.com. Come join an already lively group of users.


• Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are:
  
  
  
  • Main Menu -http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenu
  
  
  • Main Menu Live -http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenulive
  
  

Main Menu and Main Menu Live can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific, and at 1 universal (GMT) on Wednesday mornings on the ACB Radio Main Stream channel.

Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow

The Main Menu Production Team

We Have a Winner of the Victor Reader Stream: Congratulations to Linda Knight!

ACB Radio is proud to congratulate Linda Knight of New Port Richey, fL, winner of the HumanWare Victor Reader Stream.  Here is her winning entry.

Dear ACB radio staff,


I am a deaf/blind woman who has enjoyed listening to audio books all my life.  When my hearing began to deteriorate, I received cochlear implants. The Victor Reader Stream will enable me to hear and understand books much better than I have in my childhood and adult life. In my research, and listening to demonstrations, The stream is the only portable book reader I have found that is truly compatible with my cochlear implants.



Thank you,

Congratulations Linda!  We at ACB Radio wish you many happy hours of listening!

Many thanks to HumanWare for their generosity in making this prize possible. To order your own Victor Reader Stream, call (in the US) 1-800-722-3393, or visit www.humanware.com.

Coming up on Main Menu and Main Menu Live for the week of September 5

This week, we cap off the celebration of ACB Radio Interactive's seventh birthday with an inside look at Internet radio broadcasting!

During the first hour of Main Menu, Darrell Shandrow explains the operation of the Station Playlist Studio Internet broadcasting software and provides a demonstration of the package in action.

During the second hour of Main Menu Live, join our panel of ACB Radio Interactive staff as we discuss everything that goes into broadcasting a complete live show. We will also be glad to take your questions regarding ACB Radio Interactive and Internet radio broadcasting through our usual MSN (Windows Live) Messenger and telephone channels.

Here is how to participate in the show:

• The number to call into the show is 866-400-5333.


• You may email your questions to: mainmenu@acbradio.org


• You may also interact with the show via MSN (Windows Live) Messenger. The MSN Messenger ID to add is: mainmenu@acbradio.org


• Would you like to interact with a group of Main Menu listeners about the topics heard on Main Menu and Main Menu Live? You can do this by joining the Main Menu Friends email list. The address to subscribe is: main-menu-subscribe@googlegroups.com. Come join an already lively group of users.


• Would you like to subscribe to podcast feeds for Main Menu and Main Menu Live? The RSS feeds to add to your podcatching application are:
  
  
  
  • Main Menu -http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenu
  
  
  • Main Menu Live -http://www.acbradio.org/podcasts/mainmenulive
  
  

Main Menu and Main Menu Live can be heard on Tuesday evenings at 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific, and at 1 universal (GMT) on Wednesday mornings on the ACB Radio Main Stream channel.

Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow

The Main Menu Production Team