[Electronics-Talk] Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, December 12, 2019 - Volume 735

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Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, December 12, 2019 - Volume 735   Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, December 12, 2019 - Volume 735 The Week's News in Adaptive Technology A Flying Blind, LLC Publication http://www.flying-blind.com/ You have received this email from Flying Blind, LLC because you are subscribed to receive Flying Blind, LLC Publications. To ensure that you continue to receive Flying Blind, LLC Publications please add the following two email addresses to your Address Book, Email Contact List, Trusted Sender's List, and/or Safe Sender's List today: enews at flying-blind.ccsend.com and enews at flying-blind.com. Read this Volume of Top Tech Tidbits on the web, with full, un-shortened links at: http://www.flying-blind.com/tidbits2019/12122019/index.html. This Week's Featured Advertisement: Check out the Recording of Last Week's Webinar 'Overcoming Obstacles of Manual Accessibility Testing'! 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The $39 tutorial lasts over six hours and gives comprehensive information about using the Watch with VoiceOver: http://bit.ly/359cCLD 5) Free Tutorial on Dolphin GuideConnect Mystic Access offers this 5-hour free tutorial on using the Domphin product designed for the elderly and computer neophites stepping into the computer world. MP3 and DAISY version are available: http://bit.ly/2Jm2Lbx 6) Other Free Downloads from Mystic Access What's New in iOS 13, Getting Live Assistance, Guide to Text to Speech and more are available free on this page: http://bit.ly/2Jm2Lbx 7) Sweetman Systems on Tek Talk This distributor of adaptive tech products will discuss their offerings on Tek Talk on GMT Tuesday, 17 December at 01:00: http://bit.ly/2M464U2 8) Smart Plug Review This blog post from Shaun Preece, AKA the Blurred Nerd, leads to an audio review of the Koi, or Teckin Smart Power Strip: http://bit.ly/2RPvBqy 9) December 2019 AccessWorld This AccessWorld contains An Overview of MacOS Catalina and WatchOS 6, A Review of the Zoom Conferencing System, The Affordable Amazon Basics Microwave, Audio Described Videos from Amazon, and more: http://bit.ly/2t4SLyY 10) The 100 Gadgets That Defined This Decade Of course, the decade actually goes for another year, through the end of 2020, but leaving that aside, the Verge suggests the most important gadgets of the decade: http://bit.ly/34fj8z0 11) Eloquence and Vocalizer Expressive Add-on for NVDA With NVDA's next version, the screen reader will be based on Python version 3. 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