Upgrade for Blind Borrowers of Audiobooks
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The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped has decided to switch to a digital system over the next four years.
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Some CDs come with bells and whistles; be sure you understand how they work.
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Owners of the set-top device will have to wait a little longer for the highly-anticipated upgrade that allows the renting of movies from iTunes.
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The deal for the provider of digital audiobooks bolsters Amazonâs offerings of audio downloads.
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Someone at Sony has wisened up and decided to add MP3 support to their new NW-HD3 player slated for release in December. &quot;Sony is broadening support for the MP3 file format in its portable music player range.
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Before Sony brought out its new NW-HD3, it didn&#39;t have a hard-drive-based digital audio player that could play MP3s. This was a shame, because while Apple makes some great MP3 players, it could use some credible competition.
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By HILLEL ITALIE  NEW YORK - Sorry, e-book fans, whoever you are. You will be able to read the new Harry Potter on paper, listen to it, probably purchase it in Braille. But don't expect to download the text - at least legally.  Author J.K.
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The AccessMusic project provides a set of tools for creating accessible music which are freely available to download. These tools allow you to convert music scores from traditional western music notation to formats for the Blind and visually impaired.   As part of the i-Maestro project the accessible music production code was extended to provide accessible "viewers" that could be coupled onto any existing music notation editor. The code for these interfaces is provided in the hope that it can be of use in other projects. For I-Maestro the interfaces were coupled to a Symbolic Music Representation editor developed by the University of Florence. However they were designed with reusability in mind to allow easy coupling onto any editor.  See http://accessmusic.sourceforge.net/interfaces.php for further details.  Source code will be uploaded to subversion over the next couple of days.
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Books have been a bit of the orphan in the digital world. Music has the iPod. Video has YouTube. Books have, well, Amazon.com, where you can buy them printed on paper.
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Blog: Support for Acrobat and Reader has arrived for Microsoft Vista and Office 2007.
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Eleven days ago I wrote a blog post describing a call-in service that I'd like to use to create a podcast with my friend and fellow blogger Robert Scoble. A new service (or one that I just became aware of) comes achingly close to doing what I want. Maybe it goes all the way there, but I've not seen how to do it. First, here's how it works. 1. Call 646-495-9201 x 49763. 2. Talk. 3. Hangup. There will be a new recording here.  http://drop.io/tradesecrets  Looks good!  But there are two problems. 1. The RSS feed doesn't have an enclosure, and even if you were willing to scrape the HTML there's no pointer to an MP3 file. 2. There's no pointer to an MP3 file on the landing page, although there appears to be one if you don't look at the HTML source. Tricky. It was enough to get Mike Arrington at Techcrunch to think it was there. I have a call into Mike to discuss. A caveat, I am also in touch with the folks at BlogTalkRadio. I want this service, and we're close to having it now. drop.io doesn't go quite far enough, they clearly want to drive traffic to their site, and appear unwilling to let the MP3 out into the wild. Interesting stuff!!  Update: I did a podcast with Robert and Patrick Scoble using drop.io. I was able to download the MP3, although it pretty well hidden, and upload it to my S3 account.
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Apple today released its fastest and most affordable iBooks yet, reducing the entry-level price to just Â£749. These are available now.
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Update Slammed for touting unavailable but unlicensed content
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Blog: New devices help remove the stigma of hearing aid use for aging Boomers, and help preserve the auditory environment for the rest of us.
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A new cellular application promises to help vision-impaired people who can't read the screen of a mobile phone. It responds to spoken commands with voice recognition technology and reads back menu options, text messages, and other information to the user.
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Microsoft will offer improved capacity to search copyrighted books on the Internet.
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You'll want it but we can't tell you why Adobe has pushed out a stealthy - but important - update to its Reader software that fixes a number of unspecified security problems.â¦