http://www.daisynow.net/blog The official blog for DaisyNow.Net website Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:12:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.daisynow.net/blog/?p=28 The 2007 Microsoft Office system includes improved support for screen readers, magnifiers, speech recognition, alternative displays and other assistive technologies. More than 10 million compatibility packs that allow users of earlier versions of Microsoft Office to work with Open XML have been downloaded around the world. Open XML documents will ... http://www.daisynow.net/blog/?p=27 This is the interesting seminar. However, is it too short?... Cheers, Tanakom. January 21, 2009 International Seminar on Textbooks in DAISY format - "Future of the Textbooks for All" will be held at Kyoto International Community House on February 5th, 2009. Hosts: Japanese Society for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities (JSRPD) and Assistive Technology Development ... http://www.daisynow.net/blog/?p=26 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 ... http://www.daisynow.net/blog/?p=25 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 ... http://www.daisynow.net/blog/?p=24 Microsoft Details Support for ODF in Office 2007 SP2 by Peter Galli on December 17, 2008 09:29PM Microsoft has released documentation that details the implementation of the Open Document Format in Office 2007 Service Pack 2, which is available at no cost on the Document Interoperability Initiative (DII) Web site. This, along ... http://www.daisynow.net/blog/?p=23 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 http://www.daisynow.net/blog/?p=22 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 ... http://www.daisynow.net/blog/?p=21 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. http://www.daisynow.net/blog/?p=20 Let's join for your beloved language! Cheers, Tanakom. Two new releases of the Microsoft Word translator add-in are planned for the next  four months. The first software release will be fixing reported problems, supply improved documentation, and add new features, including support for MathML generation. The second release will add audio (mp3) generation using TTS engines and ... http://www.daisynow.net/blog/?p=19