This week J.J. and Joe power through the week's news, show off a few things with a demo or two and the winners of the Jet competition are announced. Of course we also have Sound Off" and the "Last Word". This show may have been recorded as the last show of August, however, it airs as the first show of September. How amazingly "timey wimey" of us.
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In The News:
The results of the sixth edition of the Web Aim Survey on Screen Readers has arrived
Submissions Now being Accepted for #CSUN16 in San Diego
Petition, Maintain Audio Description for the Blind at Movie Theaters
RNIB Seeks Feedback on Rehab Services in Paid Research
New HumanWare Prodigi Connect 12 is a Magnifier and Android Tablet
New Site For Blind World Of Warcraft Players
Chicken Nugget Twitter Client Updated with a Mouthful of New Features
TuneIn Radio Brings 40,000 Audiobooks and more with New Premium Service
Congrats to our friends at Apple Vis on the announcement of their new blog team
Also, mmm ... sprinkles, BBQ regular Shelly Brizbin has started a new podcast
Sad news from Chris Hofstader, Two Deaths
Demo: Resurrecting an Old Braille Display
J.J. demonstrates how to hook up a HandyTech BrailleStar 40 braille display from 15 years ago to a modern screen reader using the Keyspan by Tripp Lite USA-19HS High-Speed USB Serial Adapter This trick will work on all sorts of old tech, making some of your tech that's gathering dust new again.
Demo: Multi Path Audio for iOS
It's a modern day take on the old "Choose Your Own Adventure" game with snazzy narration and lots of replay ability. Multi Path Audio for iOS has a simple interface, high contrast based controls and a simple "pick up and play" approach to interactive story telling mechanics. Each story is $1.99 and there are currently four stories available. The stories can be played offline for those long trips away from the internet. And you can try a story out before you purchase it in case you find one not to your liking. Each story has multiple endings and you will want to find them all. You can skip past the portions you have already completed, or start over from the beginning and live the adventure to its fullest.
Tip: Give me a Hint
There's a little event happening on September 9, but what exactly will Apple be announcing? IN this week's tip, J.J. asks Siri for a hint on what might transpire.
Jet Contest Winners
A few episodes back, we asked you to post a comment on our website to be entered in a drawing for fabulous prizes (prizes not fabulous). Congratulations to Louis D and mcikeyc who each won a one year membership to Jet. In case you missed it, you can check out our review of Jet from a few weeks ago.
Sound Off:
Jan Brown writes in with another review and a few more comments this week.

"I ordered the Six Dot Braille labeler made by Logan Electronics after hearing it demonstrated on one of your CSUN broadcasts.
I am a gadget geek and for this reason was a bit unsure about this product. I had a difficult dymo labeler in the past which took forever to use.
This new labeler features a Perkins style keyboard with a cutting button which works and is easy to activate.
All of my kitchen spices are beautifully labeled now and the next project is the dread deep freeze and some cupboards.
I really like the product which works as claimed.
The only drawback is the lack of a charger. It works off of 6, yes, count them, 6 double A batteries. We turn it off between label brailling. You can read what you have written as it comes out of the machine and the back is fairly easy to tear off of each label.
I am not a fan of bar code scanners. I am not good enough to locate the bar codes