Many of you have asked us for a series of short tutorials on using the Mac with VoiceOver. When we became aware of a series of instructional podcasts from Vision Australia on this very topic, we quickly realized that we needed to share them with our Main Menu listeners. After this week's Tech Update from Chase Crispin, I visit with David Woodbridge about Vision Australia's podcasts and about using the Mac in general. After that, we bring you the first installment of the series which explains how to get VoiceOver running on any Mac. Finally, Blind Bargains shows us two portable magnifiers from Clarity.

THIS week, we bring you part 2 of our look at Window-Eyes 7.5 courtesy of GW Micro. Next, Chase Crispin reviews the Snowball microphone. Finally, J. J. Meddaugh of Blind Bargains brings us another interview from this year's ATIA conference. In this interview, Doug Hacker, VP of Business Development at AI Squared demonstrates ZoomReader, an OCR app for IOS devices.

This week, David Tanner brings us part 2 of his look at Open Book 9 from Freedom Scientific.

This week we bring you part one of our look at Window-Eyes 7.5 courtesy of GW Micro. We will look at part two of this presentation in two weeks.

This week, we bring you two weeks' worth of Tech updates from Chase Crispin. Also, Mary Emerson shows us SARA, Camera Edition, Freedom Scientific's stand-alone scan and read appliance. Finally, we bring you the first in a series of interviews from this year's ATIA conference courtesy of Blind Bargains. In our first installment, J.J. Meddaugh talks with the president of Enabling Technologies about The Phoenix, the world's first multifunction brailler.

On this week's show, David Tanner brings us part 1 of a thorough review of Open Book 9 from Freedom Scientific.

This week we begin with a Tech update from Chase Crispin. Next, Aaron Linson provides a review of the Kindle 3. Finally, Kevin Chao demonstrates the Apple TV using VoiceOver.

This week, we visit with Christopher Toth about Hope, an accessible interface for the Pandora music service. Next, we rebroadcast episode four of the VoiceOver On podcast which takes a look at the good, the bad, and the ugly of the newest generation of the Apple TV with VoiceOver Access. After that, Chase Crispin demonstrates how to enter addresses on the Trekker Breeze from HumanWare. Finally, Mary Emerson demonstrates Unrestrict PDF, a program that can provide greater access to encrypted PDF files.

We have covered a lot of stories on Main Menu over the past year, and so it seemed appropriate to highlight some of them. That's exactly what we do on this week's show, but first we bring you holiday greetings from ACB president Mitch Pomerantz and then we give you a short tech update from Chase Crispin. Main Menu airs on Fridays at 9 PM Eastern or Saturdays at 2 UTC. Call the Main Menu comment line at (206) 339-0954. Subscribe to the Main Menu podcast feed at: http://mainmenu.acbradio.org/rss.php