Bowing to pressure from Jerry Halatyn to make constant changes to the way in which If Every Day Were Christmas is delivered to blind podcasters, Jeff Bishop has simply removed the means by which we were able to obtain this song without the need to use the currently inaccessible Podsafe Music Network. Once again, it… Finish Reading Podsafe for Peace Update: Accessible Means to Obtain the Track Now Removed!

The premier audio book website audible.com has released a new design to its website. The new design labels all the images that one would need for navigation purposes, the book pages have headings so you can quickly jump to the publisher summary for example without reading through all the book information first, and the site… Finish Reading The New Audible.com

Shownotes Note to self and warning to everyone: don’t accept software from strangers! Recovering from both a computer and a biological virus… Natalie Brown Thanks for the excellent ID! It now begins the show. Anyone else want to supply one? Fix for crackling speech from Sound Blaster Live cards. Check out this Freedom Scientific Technical… Finish Reading Phoenix Rising Out of the Ashes!

A new trojan horse executable with the name google_accessibility.exe is making the rounds. Purporting to enable the blind and visually impaired to work around Google’s inaccessible visual verification scheme, it actually corrupts the data on the attacked system’s hard drives, rendering such systems inaccessible and effectively useless. In addition, all data on any mapped drives… Finish Reading Red Alert: New GoogleAccessibility Trojan Horse Targets Blind and Visually Impaired for Disaster!

My computer was killed last night. I just learned from one of my sighted coworkers that we’re going to need to perform a complete operating system reinstall! Thankfully, I backed up most of my important data on another system, so the loss is not catestrophic. What happened and why? Stay tuned. An Ancestor ate my… Finish Reading An Ancestor Got My Computer!