Archive for the ‘DaisyNow Project’ Category

Google’s Fast Flip Deal Has a Familiar Ring

September 14, 2009, 10:12 pm
Google’s Fast Flip Deal Has a Familiar Ring

By Miguel Helft

The years-long tug of of war between publishers and Google has become familiar. Publishers complain that Google makes money off their backs and want to be paid for their content. Google replies that what it does — indexing the Web, offering […]

Newly Integrated DAISY Playback!

Milestone 312
Milestone 312 represents a new generation of aids for visually impaired and blind people. But also people with sight have a growing interest in the device. Milestone 312 includes an enormous functionality in the popular small Milestone casing, in credit card size.
What is Milestone 312 able to do?
Voice records in high quality can be […]

Microsoft prepares developers for ODF in Office 14

Microsoft prepares developers for ODF in Office 14
By Scott M. Fulton, III
December 16, 2008, 3:03 PM
In a move designed to intentionally eliminate all surprises, Microsoft posted a detailed guide to its planned implementation of OpenDocument Format in the next edition of Office, to an interoperability Web site it launched last March.
By designating point-by-point how it […]

Microsoft Details Support for ODF in Office 2007 SP2

Microsoft Details Support for ODF in Office 2007 SP2 by Peter Galli on December 17, 2008 09:29PM

DaisyNow.Net is ready for Microsoft Silverlight 2.0

Hello All,
The migrational process of the online player beta page to Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 has almost been completed. However, it’s ready for you guys to test and comment at our online player beta page http://www.daisynow.net/core/onlinePlayback/default.aspx
Cheers,
Tanakom @ Thailand

Migrating DAISY DTB Playback in DaisyNow.Net to Microsoft Silverlight 2.0

Migrating DTB Playback in DaisyNow.Net to Microsoft Silverlight 2.0

In the past weekend, I dedicated my time to migrate the expired DTB playback engine that has been used in www.daisynow.net from Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 to “Silverlight 2.0”.
There are a lot of changes in this version. Not only I have to migrate to Silverlight 2.0, But […]

Silverlight 2 Release Candidate Now Available!

Great News! That Silverlight 2 RC (Release Candidate) is now available! So, the next DaisyNow.Net will be absolutely supported soon. The attached below is the release information from Scott Gu.
Cheers,
Tanakom Talawat.

Sony PRS-505/LC Blue Digital Book Reader

Product Description
Experience the joy of reading a variety of your favorite books?all stored digitally in one compact device. The slimmer, redesigned Reader Digital Book lets you carry a stack of books in one hand. The Reader Digital Book holds about 160 eBooks or hundreds more with optional removable memory cards. Its portable size makes it […]

Kindle: Amazon’s New Wireless Reading Device

Introducing Kindle™

Three years ago, we set out to design and build an entirely new class of device—a convenient, portable reading device with the ability to wirelessly download books, blogs, magazines, and newspapers. The result is Amazon Kindle.
We designed Kindle to provide an exceptional reading experience. Thanks to electronic paper, a revolutionary new display technology, […]

DAISY Urakawa Project

Urakawa is a software project which aims at providing a multimedia authoring toolkit for designing content that is fully accessible to persons with disabilities.
Software releases of the Urakawa project are distributed free-of-charge, royalty-free, under a liberal open-source license that allows unrestricted commercial exploitation.
The Urakawa project is backed-up by major international organizations that all strive in […]