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

Coming up on Main Menu and Main Menu Live for the week of August 15

Main Menu and Main Menu Live return!

This week on Main Menu and Main Menu Live, we focus on Humanware's Victor Reader Stream.  In the first hour, we hear an in-depth review of the Victor Reader Stream.  In the second hour we bring on Gerry Chevalier from Humanware live to talk to all of us about the Victor Reader Stream. This will give you an opportunity to find out the latest information all about this new portable device.

Here is how to participate on the show.

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


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


• You may also interact with the show via MSN 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. To listen to the show, just click this link: http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=8&MMN_position=14:14

Jeff Bishop and Darrell Shandrow

The Main Menu Production Team

ACB Radio Tuner Audio Tutorial Now Available

An audio tutorial is now available to walk you through the installation and use of the ACB Radio Tuner. You may listen to it by choosing one of the following links:

• Listen to the audio tutorial over your high speed Internet connection.


• Listen to the audio tutorial over your modem Internet connection.


• Download the audio tutorial in MP3 format.

Coming up on Main Menu and Main Menu Live for the week of February 14th, 2007 - it's radio time baby!

This week we bring you a majority of content related to all things radio.

In the first pre-recorded hour of Main Menu we here from Steve Bauer all about a HD radio from Radio Shack. Next we hear from Darrell Shandrow all about a Talking Timer. To complete the first hour we bring you the first part of a presentation from Sky Taylor all about tIRC (MIRC with special scripts that interface with JAWS, Window-Eyes, Eloquence and other speech technologies).

During the second hour we come on live with Darrell Shandrow (a co-producer for Main Menu Live) and Bill Dettering from Applian, the makers of Replay-AV, Replay-Converter, Replay-Music and more. Think of Replay-AV as TiVo for audio. We will talk with Bill all about the new features found in
Replay-AV version 8.0 and the very inexpensive Replay-Converter product as well. One of the features of Replay-AV is the supporting of TV tuner cards. We will ask Bill to describe that interface to us.

During the second hour we will also hear from Jamie Pauls from Access Watch all about American Printing House's Money Talks product.

The most important part of the second hour is you, the listener and contributor. The phone lines will be open for you to call in and chat with our guest on all of Applian's products. Get your questions ready!

If you have any questions for any of our guests this week, then please get them to us. They can be mailed to mainmenu@acbradio.org. If you would prefer to call into the show and ask your question then simply call 866-400-5333 when the show starts. We will have open lines during the second hour of the show.

On next weeks show (February 21st) we will cover all things Olympus DS-50. Neal Ewers, Don Barrett and Randy Knapp join the Main Menu production team on Main Menu Live to talk all things digital from digital voice recorders to keyboards. Get your questions ready as everyone on that show has an Olympus DS-50 or access to one and we can answer all of your questions.

Main Menu Live can be heard on Tuesday evening at 8:00 Eastern, 5:00 Pacific, and at 1 universal on Wednesday morning on the ACB Radio Main Stream channel. Don't forget that this will be a 2 hour show. To listen to the show, just click this link
http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=8&MMN_position=14:14

Jeff Bishop

Main Menu Producer

Coming up on Main Menu Live for the week of January 31st, 2007 - it's VISTA time!

This is it folks! The week that Microsoft and many in the world have been waiting for! It is Windows Vista launch week and we cover it this week in a very special 3 hour edition of Main Menu Live! As a very dear friend said, VISTA may stand for "Visual, information, spoken to all". Come and find out if this is indeed the case with the first two screen reader companies to publicly support Vista and Microsoft Corporation as we present all things Windows Vista! Darrell Shandrow (a co-host for Main Menu Live) and myself will be bringing you this very special Main Menu Live. Our guests will include:

• Daniel Hubbell from Microsoft's Accessibility Technology Group will be joining us to tell us all about Vista.


• Jamie Pauls from Access Watch brings us another mini product review of Rhapsody 4.0 as we prepare for one of our guests to bring them on live.


• We may be hearing from Dolphin all about Hal for Vista. This is still in progress and if we can not bring it to you this week we will have it on an upcoming edition of Main Menu Live.


• Mike Calvo and Matt Campbell from Serotek will be joining us to talk all about System Access and Windows Vista. Serotek has already announced support for Windows Vista and we ask Mike and Matt all about the experience of using Vista with System Access. In addition, we will talk all about ScriptSure with System Access.


• This past week at ATIA, GW Micro announced that they will be shipping a public beta of Window-Eyes 6.1 for Windows Vista and other operating systems. We bring Doug Geoffray on Main Menu Live to talk to us all about Windows Vista. What will Window-Eyes users expect to see with this new operating system?

As you can see, it will be a jam packed show full of great news. Should you go out and buy Windows Vista? Wait a day or so and listen to this very special Main Menu Live before making your decision.

If you have any questions for any of our guests this week, then please get them to us. They can be mailed to mainmenu@acbradio.org. If you would prefer to call into the show and ask your question then simply call 866-400-5333 when the show starts. We will have open lines during the entire 3 hour show.

The on demand and podcast archives will be immediately available after the last airing of Main Menu Live on the Main Stream channel. Refer to the On Demand archives for the download or add this link to your PodCatcher to subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed: http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=mainmenu. You may also want to join the ACB Radio Main Stream replay podcast feed
which is: http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=replay. Keep in mind that this weeks show will be a bit larger download for those of you that receive it with a podcatching client due to its length.

Please let everyone know about this weeks show. This is sure to be one not to miss. This new operating system will affect everyone eventually, you can count on that.

Main Menu Live can be heard on Tuesday evening at 8:00 Eastern, 5:00 Pacific, and at 1 universal on Wednesday morning on the ACB Radio Main Stream channel. Don't forget that this will be a 3 hour show.

Jeff Bishop

Main Menu Producer

Coming up on Main Menu and Main Menu Live for the week of January 24th

This week begins a new era for Main Menu.  We begin our interactive portion during the second hour of Main Menu starting this week.  First of all, what
is coming up in the first hour:

• We first hear from Stephen Guerra from Independent Living Aids to talk to us all about the Dora the Explorer Interactive Talking Crayons.  This is a very innovative product to assist parents in engaging with their young children who may be blind or who may have low vision.


• We next hear from Marc Mulcahy with a very in-depth review of the Icon from Levelstar.


• During the second hour we open the phones and bring Marc and Stephen on to Main Menu Live to talk with all of you.  You will be able to call in and ask either of our guests questions.  In addition, we will have three panel experts on the show with us to answer any technical questions you may have. Randy Knapp will talk about serial ATA external drives and Don Barrett will discuss with us some interesting things about File Dir and TextPal among others from Jamal.  Both gentlemen have very technical expertise in the assistive technology industry and in computer technology as well.


• During Main Menu Live, we will also be presenting the Access Watch Review of the week.  This will be a 1 or two minute segment each week with a short review from the Access Watch web site.  This week we hear all about Windows One Care Live from Microsoft.

Coming up on January 31st on Main Menu we talk all about Windows Vista in a very special live edition of Main Menu. We will have Daniel Hubbell from the Microsoft Accessibility Technology Group, Mike Calvo from Serotek and Doug Geoffray from GW Micro coming on Main Menu that week.  Get your questions ready and call in and ask away.  This is going to be a fun one for sure!

Main Menu can be heard on Tuesday evening at 8:00 Eastern, 5:00 Pacific, and at 1 universal on Wednesday morning on the ACB Radio Main Stream channel.
 

Jeff Bishop

Main Menu Producer