Inspiration Updates Software


If you are a user of Inspiration 8, Kidspiration, 2.0 or InspireData and have moved up to an Intel based Duo Core processor computer then you should go to the Inspiration website and update your programs. As soon as you upgrade you will notice a big performance boost especially when you open and save larger files. Now my copy of Inspiration 8 opens up lightning fast on MacBook. The upgrades are free of charge and are available for Macintosh and Windows computers with the Intel based Duo Core processors. Let me know how you make out.

Voice Mail Efficiency

I don't know about you but retrieving voice mail form my cell phone is always a chore. I find that I often distracted or don't have a pen in hand and have to listen to the message several times. Wouldn't it be great if you could read your voice mail messages? Well now my prayers have been answered-with SimuScribe. SimuScribe takes your voicemail messages and using state of the art speech recognition converts the message to text and sends it to your phone as an email or if you want and as a text message. All of the settings are easily accessed from the web. I found setting up my cell phone to be extremely easy in no time my voice messages were available to me as a text message that I can now read at my leisure. Likewise, if you have access to the web you can listen to your messages within your browser and see the text message with the body of your email. There is a free 7 day trial but I would gather that once you use it you will not want to give the service up. Similarly, this could be a real breakthrough service for the hearing impaired. Now they can use voice mail on their cell phones and have it transcribed automatically. Think of the possibilities! Try it out and let me know what you think.

NEO Article


I had an opportunity to write an inspiring article about how one of the students that I had worked with as part of an assistive technology evaluation is using the NEO. It is really great when there is a good match between the student and the tool and the results that can follow. You can read the article that I wrote about the NEO at the Renaissance website. I hope you enjoy it.