Highlights from The Top Tech Tidbits newsletter
http://www.topdotenterprises.com/tidbits.htm
items renumbered for clarity

1) If you want to learn how to get more accurate scans of books and documents, no matter what technology you use to scan them, you can download an mp3
of the June 12 Friends of bookshare chat, and learn from the experts.
http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/June_12_2007_Scanning.mp3
Audio and text archives for many of the Friends of Bookshare chats are available, and many are pertinent whether you are a member or not.
http://www.friendsofbookshare.org/

2) It is now possible to download an Iso image of the open-source Windows screen reader Non-Visual Desktop Access, so that when it is copied to a cd and
that cd is inserted into a computer, the installer wil come up talking.
http://www.math.wisc.edu/~jheim/nvda/nvda.iso

3) A local chapter of the US National Federation of the Blind has launched an initiative to encourage blind students to study computer and information technology.
The web site for the project is
http://www.blind411.org/ITCareers/
and they have a Google group for discussions with students, parents and employers:
http://groups.google.com/group/itcareers4blind/

4) An individual has put up a web site where you can find out the number one song on the billboard chart for any day in history, or presumably any day
while the charts were being produced.
http://www.joshhosler.biz/NumberOneInHistory/SelectMonth.htm

5) Drop into a virtual Old Time Radio weekend, twelve hours each day, starting Saturday 18 August at 16:00 gmt and again Sunday 19 August at 16:00 gmt.
http://www.radiooutofthepast.org

6) Popular computer guy Chris Pirillo discusses What kind of laptop should I get in this installlment of his Chris Pirillo show. the show can be downloaded
in various video and audio formats, and you can read interesting comments from those who have watched the broadcast.
http://chris.pirillo.com/media/2007/08/07/what-kind-of-laptop-should-i-get/