DC Night Out

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Jaws
7.1

scripts for Quicken 2005 and 2006

The only major problem reported about the scripts is they will not work with
the Quicken 2006 reporting center. You can also follow discussions about
the scripts in the Yahoo group linked below.

File : /JAWS71ScriptsForQuicken.zip

Uploaded by : mcking65

Description : JAWS 7.1 Scripts for Quicken updated 4/28/2006 by Matt King

You can access this file at:
at the Yahoo Quicken For Blind group

On Friday and Saturday of this past week, I attended
Podcast Academy 2
held at Boston University. I picked up a few tips. It was more like a podcasting conference series of seminars, as opposed to a soup to nuts training getting started type event for the podcaster.

If nothing else, there were some interesting sessions (Morning stories, Grape Radio, corporate podcasting), etc. And it has inspired me to clean up and organize this blog and podcast a bit.

Podcasting is still a foreign concept to most people who are not techies. And many people even who work in the information technology field are not “techies” by hobbey, etc.

For instance most Americans don’t know what a podcast is.

Another fundamental concept is that most corporations, outside of say the media and high tech field, fear the unknown including podcasting.

Podcast Academy 3 will be at Yahoo in California, and you can refer to
for more details.

You can also refer to
[chrisbrogan.com]
for more details, thoughts, and links from this past event. Looks like a neat blog also. And thanks to Chris for the DC Night Out link. Also all content from the podcast academy is available from the above BU link in the form of downloadable podcast files.

A generous member of the Flyertalk community has made available United Airlines electronic certificates that allow for a discount on air tickets of $150 or more. You redeme the discounts by booking on the United web site, selecting search by schedule, and entering an electronic certificate number found in the Flyertalk thread below. See the thread for more details. H: United Entertainment Coupon W: You tell me what I want.

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Click to listen or download 16 minute podcast.
This is a more informal than usual happy hour podcast from Remingtons Of Boston, 124 Boylston Street, Boston, MA. And no, they don’t appear to have their own web site. After very brief introductions, mostly satire is provided for your entertainment.

I was just completing my tax return today using Turbotax for the web. In Massachusetts, we get a few extra days to do this than the rest of you. I’ve used Turbotax for the last several years. In several places in the system, they have an option to click to hear audio on the given topic you are working on. One might expect these audio files to be dry and boring, but this year they were pretty funny. Click here for a sample. This sample comes from near the end of the process. You can also change the number in the URL to hear some of the other audio help files, it runs from about 1 to 25, but some numbers are skipped. I may add some more links to this post, but don’t count on that.

Click to listen to 18 minute podcast.

Click to listen or download 21 minute podcast.

We begin by reminding listenters about airline Rule 240 and 120.20 which involves passengers being transferred from one airline to another. I could not find many if any comprehensive articles on this to link too.

We go on to discuss several other podcasts from the CSUN 2006 conference that are available. These include:
Blind Access Journal

Blind Cool Tech
The Desert Skys
and
ACB Radio

We highlight products from a company called Code Factory which produces screen reader software for off the shelf PDA devices.

Did you know that about 50 plus CSUN attendees stay at the Embassy Suites LAX North hotel instead of the Hilton and Marriott? Note, there is also an Embassy Suites LAX South (but North is what you want). We hear from someone on the podcast who describes the experience of staying in this alternative hotel.

Also the food and beer at the Four Points LAXis recommended.