On this week's Main Menu after Chase Crispin's weekly Tech Update, Chase visits with Jamie Pauls, content director for Serotek and host of the SeroTalk podcast and Joe Steinkamp, operations director at Serotek and executive producer of the SeroTalk podcast network about all of the podcasts available from SPN. Coverage of the summer national conventions is also discussed. Finally, David Woodbridge of Vision Australia shows us how to use the Remote Mic app for your iOS device that will let you use your iOS device as a microphone for your Mac. This is a show that you do not want to miss! Main Menu can be first heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is made available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php Visit the Main Menu website at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/ Follow MainMenu on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/mainmenu Subscribe to a list where you can interact with other Main Menu listeners and the Main Menu staff by sending a blank email message to: mm-friends-subscribe at acbradio.org

This week's show starts with Executive Producer Chase Crispin interviewing Jenny Axler from Hims, Inc. about the Braille Sense U2 notetaker and the new Braille Edge Braille display and basic notetaker. MainMenu staff member Mary Emerson continues our exclusive coverage of new products from Hims, Inc. with a demonstration of the Braille Edge Braille display and basic notetaker. It's all on MainMenu this week on acbradio's Mainstream! Main Menu can be first heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php Follow MainMenu on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/mainmenu Subscribe to a list where you can interact with other Main Menu listeners and the Main Menu staff by sending a blank email message to: mm-friends-subscribe at acbradio.org

This week's show starts with a Tech Update with MainMenu Executive Producer Chase Crispin. Rick Harmon introduces us to the Four Square app for IOS devices and takes us on a tour of the app and the website. Dan Eikmmeier reviews the Aether Ham Radio Loging Application. And, David Woodbridge from Vision Australia demonstrates sharing notes between the iPhone and the Mac using the Single Text application for iOS and Apple Lion. It's all on MainMenu this week on acbradio's Mainstream! Main Menu can be first heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php Follow MainMenu on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/mainmenu Subscribe to a list where you can interact with other Main Menu listeners and the Main Menu staff by sending a blank email message to: mm-friends-subscribe at acbradio.org

This week's show starts with David Woodbridge presenting a MainMenu exclusive presentation of navagating the Easy Chirp Website to access Twitter. Our second feature of the week comes to us courtesy of Vision Australia and David Woodbridge presenting using the Mac application "Night Owl" to access a Twitter account. It's all on MainMenu this week on acbradio's Mainstream! Main Menu can be first heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php Follow MainMenu on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/mainmenu Subscribe to a list where you can interact with other Main Menu listeners and the Main Menu staff by sending a blank email message to: mm-friends-subscribe at acbradio.org

This week's show starts with a Tech Update with Chase Crispin. We hear a review of how to setup and use the personal hotspot on your iPhone curtesy of Vision Australia and David Woodbridge. Rich Cavalaro reviews the Bose Sound Link Portable Speaker System, and Rick Harmon follows with a review and demo of the Bose Sound Doc 10 for beautiful music from your iPhone or other "i" device. Its' all on MainMenu this week on ACB Radio Mainstream! Main Menu can be first heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php Follow MainMenu on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/mainmenu Subscribe to a list where you can interact with other Main Menu listeners and the Main Menu staff by sending a blank email message to: mm-friends-subscribe at acbradio.org

This week's show starts with an interview with Harry Brown. Harry will bring us up -to-date on the latest developments in progress toward the automated vehicle. And, it may be here sooner than you think!!! Thanks to Serotek and The Serotalk Podcast Network we are rebroadcasting two interviews from CSUN 2012 with a representative from Humanware demonstrating the latest Braille technology available from the company. The other interview is with Bones all about the latest in Milestone Digital Recorders. Finally, thanks to Vision Australia we hear a demonstration from David Woodbridge of how to do dictation on your Mac using the Dictabulus app on your IOS device for doing the dictation.

This week's show starts with a technology update from Chase Crispin, and then Jeremy Curry from GW Micro brings us a demonstration of two talking CCTV systems. David Tanner then interviews Jeremy, and they continue with a discussion of talking CCTVs and their features. Thanks to Seroteck and the Serotalk Podcast Network www.serotalk.com we are rebroadcasting two interviews from CSUN 2012 with Ai Squared, and a representative from Looktel, a company making a number of outstanding apps for IOS devices. Finally, thanks to Vision Australia we hear a demonstration from David Woodbridge of how to do speed calls from your iPhone. Its' all on MainMenu this week on acbradio's Mainstream! Main Menu can be first heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php Follow MainMenu on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/mainmenu Subscribe to a list where you can interact with other Main Menu listeners and the Main Menu staff by sending a blank email message to: mm-friends-subscribe at acbradio.org

This week's show starts with our notetaker coverage and we hear the second part of the panel discussion about the five notetakers we have been covering during the notetaker series. Tim cumings reviews the GWConnect software that gives the user a new level of accessibility to Skype. And, thanks to www.serotalk.com we rebroadcast an interview that they did at the CSUN 2012 conference with Doug Geoffray from GW Micro about Windows 8 and what they are doing to make it accessible with their flagship screen reader Window-Eyes and more! Its' all on MainMenu this week on acbradio's Mainstream! Main Menu can be first heard on Fridays at 9:00 pm Eastern time. It airs throughout Saturday on ACB Radio Mainstream. http://www.acbradio.org/mainstream It is also available in the iTunes store, in the iBlink Radio app for IOS and Android devices, and is available to Radio Reading Services around the world. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php Follow MainMenu on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/mainmenu Subscribe to a list where you can interact with other Main Menu listeners and the Main Menu staff by sending a blank email message to: mm-friends-subscribe at acbradio.org

While David Tanner was away, Chase Crispin filled in as the host of Main Menu for this week's show. This week, we begin by airing the first half of a two part panel discussion all about note takers as a conclusion to the last few weeks of demos. We discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each of the devices that we have been demoing, how these devices are used in the daily lives of the panel participants, and why these specialized devices are still needed for some people. We also point out some of the large weaknesses in the current generation of note taking products. This is something that many of you have suggested since our first panel discussion last August, and we are pleased to finally bring you this discussion. After the end of the first half of the discussion, David Woodbridge from Vision Australia shows us how to use the new iMessage beta application from Apple on any Mac running OS 10.7.2 Lion or later. This app will ship with Mac OS Mountain Lion 10.8 when it is released later this year. Finally, we hear another interview from The SeroTalk Podcast Network at serotalk.com from the 2012 CSUN conference all about the latest from The American Printing House for the Blind including the soon to be released Braille Plus 18 Second Generation note taker and cell phone powered by android and the Book Port Desktop digital talking book player and recorder.

On this week's Main Menu, we begin by hearing our final segment in the Battle of the Note Takers series. This week, each presenter will discuss connectivity on their device and conclude the last few weeks of presentations on note takers. Then, we hear the final part of Neal Ewers' look at the new and accessible Olympus LS100 recorder. Following that, David Woodbridge from Vision Australia shows us how to create and add items to a play list in iTunes using Voice Over on the Mac. Finally, we hear about the latest plans on accessible GPS from the Sendero Group thanks to an interview from the 2012 CSUN conference which we are airing thanks to the SeroTalk Podcast Network at serotalk.com.