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A weekend round-up post for all those small bits and pieces that aren’t big enough to merit their own post, or don’t quite fit into ATMac but are still interesting.

iPhone Updates

The iPhone 2.2 update was released on Thursday with updates to the Google Maps features, the Safari interface, podcast support for the iPhone, and some other features. Macworld.com has a nice article summarising the features of the iPhone 2.2 upgrade. I can’t see that the upgrade really has any disability related features, so please let me know if you spotted anything relevant to disability!

AT Blog Carnival Time

It’s that time of the month again. No, not that time, I mean the AT Blog Carnival Call for Submissions is out. The theme is “my favourite things”:

Send in a review, list or story relating to your favorite AT gadgets, gizmos, software, etc. Whether you are a teacher, user of AT , family member supporting someone that uses AT, a designer, etc. you are welcome to share your faves.

Lon has extended the deadline for submissions to Friday, December 12 so the carnival can be posted on the 15th of December. And for those of you who don’t have a blog, you can visit Lon’s post Building an Idea List for Assistive Technology Gifts This Holiday Season and leave a comment there.

Discount Software Available

On the “discount software” front we have gifts aplenty from the Give Good Food To Your Mac promotion. They have a list of over 60 applications brought to you by 50 Indy mac developers. Discounts are: 20% off for 3 applications, 30% off for 4 applications, and 50% off for 5 or more applications. Their application list includes a bunch of assistive-tech-relevant programs that ATMac has written about before, including, in alphabetical order:

• DejalNarrator
• GhostReader with American English voices
• GhostReader with Parisian French voices
• Mail Attachments Iconizer
• Voice Candy

There are other applications on the list which may be useful for Mac users with disabilities such as DevonThink Personal - great for keeping scanned documents in order. Plus, of course, a bunch of other apps that are great for all Mac users.

The Give Good Food To Your Mac website doesn’t look like it will be very accessible for screen reader users. I suggest if you have problems with access you go directly to their forums, register there, and explain your difficulties.

Their promotion runs until the end of November.

Other Things

This website has had some trouble with slowness and just plain not showing up for people this week. Sorry about that!

Also, can’t remember if I told you before, but for the Internet Explorer users the site should now be working fairly well. If there’s pages that still look wrong please let me know and I’ll work on them.

- Ricky Buchanan