Category: Technology Related

Ok the new upgrade was a success.

Man having a new harddrive and 1 gig of ram man makes your pc fly.
It’s so cool that fucking noisy fan shit has now gone and it’s much much quieter in this room now.
Also i’m finally going to see the boys again tomorrow.
Haven’t seen them for over 3 weeks so taht’s gonna be heaps of fun.
Also today we had a pizza day at work and the pizza’s were great.
I’ll report tomorrow night on the great afternoon with the boys.
Also I’ve now ditched talks completly and purchased mobile speak from
Mobile speak website

Excellent software and I highly recommend it to anyone wanting good mobile phone software.

Well i’m out of here so will post another podcast probably saturday night usa time and we’ll let you know how things have gone and talk a little about pc’s the new upgrade all kinds of good stuff.

Chat to you all later.

Ok all.
I’ve decided now to invest in a new harddrive and am going to be purchasing it tomorrow.
My fine Brother Adam who’s a man of his word and 2 in the bush has decided to assist in this process. Basically we’re gonna use norton ghost 9.0 to clone the original drive to the new hdd and then just swap them out and we’ll be back up with all settinsg intact.
Also Uncle Stan has decided he wants to not be left out so he’s also buying a new hdd and he’ll be participating as well.

Hopefully we won’t run in to any issues but all critical data has been backed up and everything should be sweet.

Please make everything go as planned.

Will let you all know how this process goes.

Thanks and i’ll hopefully have great news tomorrow night.

Ok today i’m absolutely discusted with the lack of support we’re all recieving from talks and scansoft.
I’m about to install Mobile speak from
Mobile Speak Website

and we’ll try the new web browsing support.
Also they update there product at least once a month and seem comitted to there customer’s unlike scansoft who don’t give a flying fuck anymore.
I used to really like talks but now with the new custom verbosity mode, i’m going to try the product and spend the
$295.00
australian on this product.

cheaper then talks and I think it will be an absolute winner.

Also i’m looking at buying either a new smart phone or an ipaq running windows mobile and will check out the new mobile speak pocket screen reader.

I’ll report how I go here with mobile speak once I get it installed.

Thanks and the fish and chips will arrive momentarily and I can’t wait to enjoy a nice piece of fish and a battered sav which is similar to a corndog for my usa readers.

Cheers and long live mobile speak.

Ok thought this new Gizmo Project phone client was going to be great.

Unfortunately it’s not up to my usual standards so I can’t recommend it on the below issues.
It’s very slow to start up, it’s not accessable for screen readers in general and so I give it a big fat 0 out of 10.
Keeping in mind it’s in beta there’s still plenty of work that needs to be done on this hunk of shit.
Actually i’ll give it a minus 10 even better.

Don’t install this shit, it’s not worth it.

If a company is going to bring out a product, for fuck sake test the mother fucker first then release it.
don’t bring out some clunky application start charging for incoming and outgoing calls and then telling everyone that it’s better then skype?
It’s far worse then skype and it will never be better then skype.

A very dismal piece of shitty software.
I am not even willing to give the web address for this hunk of shit cause that’s slow and takes 193 years to load.

Final score,
gizmo project a big fat minus 10.

Thanks.

Ok this weekend sees the lawnch of my very own podcast found over at

The Wormcast

That’s the link to the journal blog.
To actually subscribe to the podcast in your ipodder client or whatever client your using point your client to

http://feeds.feedburner.com/wormcast

so far there are 2 episodes online to enjoy and tomorrow we’ll be podcasting live from the wrx of Grant.
Should be an exceptional event and hopefully we’ll hear the turbo kick in.

Enjoy the show and any comments welcome.
Please post comments in the journal and things will rock.

See ya.

Your exstatic worm.

Ok firstly I wanna tell everyone about the new book on how to create a podcast from the man who does the geek news central podcast.
An excellent buy at $13.50 us dollars.
The link below wil take you to the amazon.com page where you can buy the pdf electronic version of the book good for us blind guys.

click the below link to purchase this fine podcasting treasure.

Podcasting e-text link

Check it out and for god sake just buy a book. The author has done an excellent job on this book and I don’t wanna see blind folks or anyone for that matter rip this author off.

It’s only 13 dollars so put your hands in to your miserable pockets and when funds allow, buy it today.

Not fucking next week 2 weeks from now or a year later?

Thanks.

Ok I’ve recieved a reply from a skhype moderator regarding access to the call menu in skype.

The more blind people who post there annoyances in the skype support forum, the better for all concerned.
Here’s the reply.

Hi there!
Chris Westbrook (a blind Skype user who recently made a post here about this issue),
an unnamed Skype staffer and I recently had a discussion about this. This issue is
definitely known and I’m sure Skype will recognize and fix it. Again, this is a BETA
and the Skype staff appreciate any and all feedback to try to make it better.
My suggestion to them was to make an “Accessible Mode” where the API as well as the
Skype client does everything without the eye-candy and better strings for text readers
such as Jaws to be able to read properly and maximize usability for disabled users.
–

Ok all.

I’ve taken it apon myself to write to the skype develpers expressing my sincere dissatisfaction with the newest skype beta and how the call menu has been taken away from us blind folks.

Here’s the email I posted to them below and i’ll keep you all informed on the progress of this very important issue.

Hi There.

Firstly i’d like to express my dissatisfaction with the latest beta 1.3.29 of skype.

I’m extreemly disappointed at the fact you have removed access to calling online contacts via the callmenu under alt c in skype.

Why are you guys taking away important functionality for blind users who use your produtt on a daily basis?
I know the eye candy is pretty and looks good for those with sight but taking away important features such as calling people via the call menu in my oppinion is a step backward.

Please can I urge you to put back the call menu as it is currently in version 1.2.48 and don’t make changes like these without consulting with us first?
I can’t understand why you would even think of removing the call menu and make your product harder for us blind folks to use.

I would appreciate a reply to my concerns listed above and I look forward to hearing from you asap.

Thanks for your time.

Ok it’s been a while since i’ve written here in the fucker.
Basically i’m so pissed cause a new version of skype came out yesterday and the fuck wits have removed the call menu so you now have to doubleclick on a person on your contact list to ccall them.
This is so fucked cause it’s hard enough now to use the mouse pointer and in my oppionion skype have gone backwards since they have done what they have done.

Absolutely fucked.

I’m enraged and i’m so pissed off i’m writing them a nasty letter tonight just to see what they will say.

Ok I have an idea for a podcast.

I’ve decided to call it 3 blind mice and we can sit around my 2 friend’s and I and just chat about whatever we like and just have some fun for 30 mins or so each week.

What i’m looking for if anyone can comment on this entry is a digital recorder with usb functionality so I can record my podcast outdoors and then hookup to the usb port and transfer the recording back to the pc.

I know Lynn in delaware bought one of these recently so Lynn if your reading this, any chance of a wave file or sample so I can hear the quality of the recordings?
Also make model and specs of the unit would be greatly appreciated.

I think it would be a fantastic podcast and we’ll definently look further in to it.

Tonight for dinner we had pizza with Michael and Murray my other friends who are gonna be in this podcast.

Will chat to ya all soon.