Main Menu 11 Jan 2013

This week on MainMenu, it is all about BARD. The BARD webpage has undergone a huge change with addition of many more features, new ways of doing things you could do on BARD have changed, and much more. MainMenu Executive Producer Chase Crispin takes us on a review and demonstration of the new and greatly … Read more

Main Menu 04 Jan 2013

Happy New Year! Have you resolved to listen to MainMenu every week this year? We hope so! MainMenu rings in 2013 with 3 new segments of interest to many who have requested reviews of Tiny Tunes and Text Detective. Cullen Gallagher brings us a review and demonstration of the new Tiny Tunes Talking MP3 Player. … Read more

Main Menu 28 Dec 2012

It is a MainMenu special this week! MainMenu Host David Tanner and MainMenu Executive Producer Chase Crispin co-host this special 2 hour review of the highlights of MainMenu for 2012, and talk about some of the plans for 2013. We look again at our coverage of the features of some of the most popular notetakers, … Read more

Main Menu 21 Dec 2012

This week on MainMenu we bring you holiday greetings from Main Menu staff and listeners. MainMenu staff member Tim Cummings interviews Stephen Clower from GW Micro about the just released Window-Eyes 8.0 and all of its new features. David Woodbridge from Vision Australia Shows us how to purchase, download and run a new app all … Read more

Main Menu 14 Dec 2012

This week on MainMenu we bring you features that include: MainMenu Executive Producer Chase Crispin brings us a tech update with information on three assistive technology packages that had upgrades to their software during the past week. David Woodbridge from Vision Australia reviews and demonstrates the new iTunes version 11 for Apple Mac. He covers … Read more

Main Menu 07 Dec 2012

This week on MainMenu we bring you features that include: MainMenu Host: David Tanner brings us our third presentation on Windows 8 with a look at the Windows8 Narrator screen reader built into Windows 8. We take a look at the new more extensive set of settings available, a much richer list of reading commands, … Read more

Main Menu 30 Nov 2012

This week on MainMenu we bring you features that include: MainMenu Executive Producer Chase Crispin interviews John Martyn of DoItBlind.com about a number of new scripts for Jaws for Windows that will make many favorite software packages much more accessible to blind users. MainMenu Host: David Tanner brings us our second presentation on Windows 8 … Read more

Main Menu 23 Nov 2012

This week on Main Menu, David Tanner speaks with Eric Damery, vice president of software at Freedom Scientific about the newest from Freedom Scientific including version 14 of the JAWS for Windows screen reader and version 12 of the Magic Screen Magnification software. Next, Mary Emerson gives us a brief demo of the Miniguide mobility … Read more

Main Menu 16 Nov 2012

This week on MainMenu we bring you features that include: David Tanner interviews Harry Brown and we learn about the latest developments in the exciting field of the driverless vehicle. Yes, it really is coming, and it is already being driven on the highways in three states in the U. S. Then David Woodbridge from … Read more

Main Menu 09 Nov 2012

This week on MainMenu we bring you features that include: Chase Crispin, Executive Producer for MainMenu interviews Larry Skutchan about the latest tech products from American Printing House for the Blind. Then MainMenu staff member David Woodbridge from Vision Australia brings us two features: The first introduces to new features in the September 2012 release … Read more