To use Digit-Eyes to scan barcodes do the following.
1. On your IPhone, start Digit-Eyes.
2. Activate the scan button.
3. Every second, you will hear a click sound. When you hear this, it means that the iPhone has taken a picture.
4. Move the iPhone around the package and wait until a picture is taken.
5. Make sure you hold the iPhone about 4 to 8 inches above the package.
6. When a barcode is found you will hear a beep, and the information will be spoken automatically by Voiceover.
7. Buttons will appear that allow you to Google for more info, and to record a text/audio label.
Happy identifying everyone! ?

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Fix it Center finds and fixes many common PC and device problems automatically. It also helps prevent new problems by proactively checking for known issues and installing updates. Fix it Center helps to consolidate the many steps of diagnosing and repairing a problem into an automated tool that does the work for you.

Easy

Microsoft Fix it Center makes getting support easier than ever, with tools that help solve the issues you have now and prevent new ones.

•Easy to Install and Run: Easy-to-use wizards will guide you through the set-up process and help you anytime you need support.
•Automated: With automated troubleshooters, Fix it Center helps solve issues with your PC, even if you’re not sure what the exact problem is. Fix It Center scans your device to diagnose and repair problems, then gives you the option to “Find and fix” or to “Find and report.
•Preventive Care: By helping you find and fix issues before they become real problems, Fix it Center helps keep your PC running smoothly and automatically downloading the latest solutions.

Relevant Solutions

Microsoft Fix it Center personalizes solutions for your device, showing you only what pertains to your hardware and software.

•Personalized for your Device: By scanning your PC and devices to detect which hardware and software you are using, you get more personalized support with Fix it Center.
•Relevant Answers and Advice: Because Fix it Center keeps track of your devices and settings, you get only the help, solutions and articles that are applicable to your needs.

Puts you in Control

Microsoft Fix it Center gives you an easy way to stay in control and support your devices.

•Customized Settings: You choose the settings and level of automation, so Fix it Center fits how you want manage your devices.
•Manage Multiple Devices: With a single view of all your devices, it’s easy to manage multiple devices from one view. You can even manage them remotely.
•Recordkeeping: Now you’ll also have a record of all the updates and repairs that are made on each device with the continuous report in Fix it Center.
Try it now!

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This was taken from the Microsoft Accessibility Blog.

Hi. I am working on a research project to understand how people optimize their computer to make it easier to see. We just kicked off an online survey and are recruiting people who have vision impairments. So, if you have low vision or color blindness, we’d really appreciate your feedback. And if there’s someone you know who does, please pass this information to them.

Microsoft product teams will use the survey findings to guide them as they strive to improve our display features. Your responses are completely anonymous. The survey will take approximately 30 minutes to complete. To participate, please fill out our Microsoft survey for making the computer easier to see.

Thanks!

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Check out hunch.com. Here you can choose from categories of topics, then choose a question like, what is the best computer speaker system, what iPhone app should I download, where should I take my next vacation, and on and on!

The web site will ask questions about you to tailor it’s responses to your likes and dislikes. Information is provided by data gathering, and user submissions. Then via machine learning comparisons are made, and patterns are spotted than can help you toward making that oh so important decision. Hmmm, should I post this blog entry?

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I’ve just posted a page that I hope will help you find the resources that you need to make the most out of the iPhone and Voiceover! I hope to update the page often, so please let me know of more sites as you find them. Check out the iPhone Hub.

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DoNanza is a new kind of search engine; a search engine for freelance online projects -the kind of money making and exposure getting tasks that you can do from home.

Did you know there are hundreds of thousands of online projects across the Web?

• They require all types of skills and fields of interest (from programming to music, from graphic design to copywriting)
• They offer rewards to those who perform them successfully (from cash to serious professional exposure)
• And they are all waiting for you!

Here on DoNanza we collect all those online projects, and our mission (yes, we choose to accept it) is to expose them all and help YOU find the most relevant online projects.

Each day, we scan the web hunting for new online projects and display them in one single format so you can easily search through hundreds of thousands of projects from countless sites. Within each project, you can see: The compensation offered, the time remaining for completion, whether it´s in bid, contest or other formats and whether in addition to enjoy performing the project it will also buy you your next Bahamas vacation…

All you need to do is to state your skill or field of interest (you could be general and write "design" or be more specific to your skill set and write "Website design"), press the "Search" button, and we will show you all the World Wide Web has to offer.

Who is DoNanza for?

We believe that each and every person can find online projects relevant to his skills and interests.

Whether you came here to make an honest living or just to challenge yourself in your free hours doing the things you love, you came to the right place.

And for all you freelancers already using a site or two offering online projects – DoNanza is a powerful tool that will bring you every available online project on the Web.

Our vision

Our vision at DoNanza is to organize all of the world´s online projects into one simple easy to access source.

We believe that the world of employment is radically changing and shifting to what Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wired magazine article called, CrowdSourcing. We think that Crowdsourcing is relatively straightforward: It´s the online distribution of certain tasks to crowds of experts and enthusiasts.

And from the words of Shane Robison, HP´s chief strategy and technology officer: "Crowd-sourcing is going mainstream and will change the rules of the game forever. Fortune 50 companies will access top talent on a global basis via the Internet, saving millions of dollars in professional services, from occupations as diverse as accountants, advertising experts, attorneys, and engineers…"

From the employers point of view the incentive is obvious – he can tap a wider range of talents than might be present in its own organization. From the providers perspective (as the ones doing the project), they now have a chance to compete for projects that aren´t necessarily geographically close but were published across the world.. And for all of the enthusiasts out there, with a passion for a specific field, never had a chance and platform to prove their talent in, DoNanza is the place for you.

About DoNanza

At DoNanza we put our money where our mouth is. We believe in all of you, and so many aspects of the development of DoNanza were published as online projects and were executed by the community. Aspects like developing the site´s UI, developing great deal of the engine itself, finding the different platforms publishing jobs, indexing the data, evaluating the search engine algorithm, QA and many more were published as online projects and were completed by the community. We want to thank all of you.

This process is not over now that DoNanza is live; we will continue to post projects online as the site grows and we continue to add features.

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LinkUp is a job aggregator that lets you find hidden jobs listed on company websites. These jobs listings are generally unadvertised to outside world and can be difficult to find if you don’t know where to look.

The site currently lists data from over 21,000 company websites. You can search it by keyword, job title or location. Advanced and more refined search options are also supported.

If you register on the site it lets you to bookmark favorite job listings, save your search history and set job alerts. You can also sign in using your existing Google, Facebook, MySpace, AOL, Yahoo! or OpenID credentials.

Additionally, if you are an employer you can advertise jobs directly on LinkUp (not free).

Features:

• Job listing aggregator that lets you find hidden jobs.
• Gathers data only from company websites.
• Search jobs by location and keyword.
• Bookmark  your favorite listings, save your search history and get job alerts (registered users).
• Employers can advertise jobs on LinkUp.

Check out LinkUp @ www.linkup.com

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Here is a short list of problems that Microsoft will try to fix for you. This list is taken from the Microsoft web site linked to above. More troubleshooting tools will be added so you can check back for more tools whenever Microsoft gets around to publishing them.

• Windows Vista Aero Glass visual effects are not working Automatically diagnose and repair problems when the visual Aero Glass effects, themes, and transparencies are not working on your computer. /li>
• Printing problems and printing errors
  Automatically diagnose and repair when you cannot print, or for problems installing a printer, connecting to a network printer and related errors. /li>
• Your CD or DVD drive cannot read or write media
  Automatically diagnose and repair problems with your CD or DVD drive when trying to read or burn media in Windows Vista.
• Hardware devices not detected or not working
  Automatically diagnose and repair problems when the device manager does not detect your hardware, audio, USB and other devices, or when your devices are disabled or not working.
• Problems with sound and audio or no sound
  Automatically diagnose and repair problems with sound and audio on your computer or when your computer does not play sound.

As I’ve said this is a short list. It would be cool if they had an RSS feed of new troubleshooters, but maybe they will as they add more.

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The new system, Wolfram Alpha, showcased at Harvard University in the US last week, takes the first step towards what many consider to be the internet’s Holy Grail – a global store of information that understands and responds to ordinary language in the same way a person does.

Although the system is still new, it has already produced massive interest and excitement among technology pundits and internet watchers.

Computer experts believe the new search engine will be an evolutionary leap in the development of the internet. Nova Spivack, an internet and computer expert, said that Wolfram Alpha could prove just as important as Google. “It is really impressive and significant,” he wrote. “In fact it may be as important for the web (and the world) as Google, but for a different purpose.

Tom Simpson, of the blog Convergenceofeverything.com, said: “What are the wider implications exactly? A new paradigm for using computers and the web? Probably. Emerging artificial intelligence and a step towards a self-organising internet? Possibly… I think this could be big.”

Wolfram Alpha will not only give a straight answer to questions such as “how high is Mount Everest?”, but it will also produce a neat page of related information – all properly sourced – such as geographical location and nearby towns, and other mountains, complete with graphs and charts.

The real innovation, however, is in its ability to work things out “on the fly”, according to its British inventor, Dr Stephen Wolfram. If you ask it to compare the height of Mount Everest to the length of the Golden Gate Bridge, it will tell you. Or ask what the weather was like in London on the day John F Kennedy was assassinated, it will cross-check and provide the answer. Ask it about D sharp major, it will play the scale. Type in “10 flips for four heads” and it will guess that you need to know the probability of coin-tossing. If you want to know when the next solar eclipse over Chicago is, or the exact current location of the International Space Station, it can work it out.

Dr Wolfram, an award-winning physicist who is based in America, added that the information is “curated”, meaning it is assessed first by experts. This means that the weaknesses of sites such as Wikipedia, where doubts are cast on the information because anyone can contribute, are taken out. It is based on his best-selling Mathematica software, a standard tool for scientists, engineers and academics for crunching complex maths.

“I’ve wanted to make the knowledge we’ve accumulated in our civilisation computable,” he said last week. “I was not sure it was possible. I’m a little surprised it worked out so well.”

Dr Wolfram, 49, who was educated at Eton and had completed his PhD in particle physics by the time he was 20, added that the launch of Wolfram Alpha later this month would be just the beginning of the project.

“It will understand what you are talking about,” he said. “We are just at the beginning. I think we’ve got a reasonable start on 90 per cent of the shelves in a typical reference library.”

The engine, which will be free to use, works by drawing on the knowledge on the internet, as well as private databases. Dr Wolfram said he expected that about 1,000 people would be needed to keep its databases updated with the latest discoveries and information.

He also added that he would not go down the road of storing information on ordinary people, although he was aware that others might use the technology to do so.

Wolfram Alpha has been designed with professionals and academics in mind, so its grasp of popular culture is, at the moment, comparatively poor. The term “50 Cent” caused “absolute horror” in tests, for example, because it confused a discussion on currency with the American rap artist. For this reason alone it is unlikely to provide an immediate threat to Google, which is working on a similar type of search engine, a version of which it launched last week.

“We have a certain amount of popular culture information,” Dr Wolfram said. “In some senses popular culture information is much more shallowly computable, so we can find out who’s related to who and how tall people are. I fully expect we will have lots of popular culture information. There are linguistic horrors because if you put in books and music a lot of the names clash with other concepts.”

He added that to help with that Wolfram Alpha would be using Wikipedia’s popularity index to decide what users were likely to be interested in.

With Google now one of the world’s top brands, worth $100bn, Wolfram Alpha has the potential to become one of the biggest names on the planet.

Dr Wolfram, however, did not rule out working with Google in the future, as well as Wikipedia. “We’re working to partner with all possible organisations that make sense,” he said. “Search, narrative, news are complementary to what we have. Hopefully there will be some great synergies.”

What the experts say

“For those of us tired of hundreds of pages of results that do not really have a lot to do with what we are trying to find out, Wolfram Alpha may be what we have been waiting for.”

Michael W Jones, Tech.blorge.com

“If it is not gobbled up by one of the industry superpowers, his company may well grow to become one of them in a small number of years, with most of us setting our default browser to be Wolfram Alpha.”

Doug Lenat, Semanticuniverse.com

“It’s like plugging into an electric brain.”

Matt Marshall, Venturebeat.com

“This is like a Holy Grail… the ability to look inside data sources that can’t easily be crawled and provide answers from them.”

Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of searchengineland.com

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