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1. Wheelchairs: The Trend From Functionality To Individuality - By: Gene Emmer
Wheelchairs have been around for hundreds of years, but early wheelchairs were intended only to help a disabled individual move from point A to point B. As society progressed and disabled individuals became more integrated, the role of the wheelchair began to change as well. Wheelchairs ...

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2. Rigid Versus Folding Wheelchairs Explained - By: Gene Emmer
Disabled athletes are rarely seen competing in a folding wheelchairs. Why? The reason is increased performance of rigid wheelchairs. All athletes seek to optimize performance. But performance is not only important for sports wheelchairs, it is important for active everyday users as well....

3. Meeting Medicaid Billing Needs With Sensitive Medical Billing Software - By: Joe Miller
Medicaid Billing Medicaid billing (similar to medicare billing)requires medical billing software that is versatile and sensitive enough to work with Medicaid. Medicaid is state subsidization of medical expenses paid on behalf of qualified low-income individuals or families. Though require...

4. Non-shredding Cd Eraser Promotes Cd Recycling - By: Wade Sun
San Diego, CA – It is common for CD-R and DVDR users to accumulate stacks of old discs that are no longer needed or outdated. A personal CD destroyer is now available that helps prevent data and identity theft by wiping out the data instead of shredding. Taking less than 2 seconds to operate, it is ...

5. 2006 Brain Wave Research Trends - By: Lance Winslow
In 2005 brain wave research made huge strides thank in part to past years from research in fMRI, sleep research at Stanford and BioTech chemical research around the globe. Scientists also are getting closer to linking man with machine or to the point of realizing the dream of add-on memo...

6. Advantages Of An Electric Wheelchair Lift - By: Low Jeremy
Technology has helped make disabled persons more mobile. This has also made wheelchairs more advanced and more convenient to use for day-to-day routines. Other devices have also been invented in order to help wheelchair-bound individuals live a more convenient life despite their disabilit...

7. Computers For Seniors, Not As Scary As You Might Think - By: Tc Thorn
Seniors, contrary to popular opinion, are thrilled with modern technology and have embraced the world of computers enthusiastically. There are no "simple" computers designed especially for seniors because the concept of computers isnt that difficult to begin with---it just seems that wa...

8. Electric Heaters And The Future - By: Michael Russell
Some parts of the world have extremely cold climates. Others have climates with temperature change throughout different seasons. Homes and businesses in these regions need some form of heating system to make their buildings comfortable to live and work in. Many different types of fuel can power thes...

9. Power Wheelchair Criticized - By: Kay Zetkin
On February 5, 2005, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released a draft on criteria for power wheelchairs and scooters coverage. These criteria will rely on clinical guidance for determining need. The new analysis begins with an assessment if the beneficiary has a mobility limitatio...



10. Drunk Driving - By: Michael Russell
Drunk Driving In my opinion, there is never any excuse for operating a car when unfit to do so. I think drunk driving is every bit as bad as putting a gun to someone's head. A car in the hands of a drunk is a lethal weapon. In the UK, an organization made up of Mothers of victi...

11. Popup - Killers Kill More Than You Think - By: Michael Russell
Probably one of the most dreaded terms in all the Internet is the popup. Let's face it. We all hate them. But can we really live without them? We're going to take a devils advocate look at popups and suggest that maybe we should learn to live with them. Obviously with the invent...

12. Electric Wheelchairs And Power Mobility Scooters Deliver Freedom And Independence To The Handicapped. - By: George Dodge
Several years ago, my daughter, a 17 years old college Freshman, was paralyzed from the waist down as the result of a fall. She was determined to continue on with college and needed a way to get around the campus. Fortunately an electric mobility scooter provided her with the freedom and mobility sh...

13. Choosing A Free Spyware Remover - By: George Royal
These are some of the most powerful and popular spyware removers which are widely available. All of them are completely free for download from their official websites and for personal use. Advanced Spyware Remover (ASR): This software from Evonsoft protects your system against and remov...

14. Resources For Wheelchair Exercisers - By: Jon Gestl
Ask most people of the challenges they face following through with an exercise program and you're likely to hear the common complaints: Lack of motivation, being too tired, not having enough time, too busy. Or as someone recently told me, "My get up and go has gotten up and gone". But ima...

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Sun To Offer Odf Plug-in For Microsoft Office
(InfoWorld) - Sunhas created software that will provide translation between the file format in Microsoft's Office 2003 suite and ODF (Open Document Format for XML). The plug-in lets people who use computers with assistive technologies to access documents written in ODF. A preview of the software, called StarOffice 8 Conversion Technology, is expected to be available in mid-February with a final release on Sun's Web site by the middle of June. The software enables two-way conversion between Microsoft Office 2003 and ODF, a standard format approved by the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) for office documents. Certain applications and devices that use assistive technologies -- such as screen readers for the blind and technologies that allow people who are quadriplegic to operate a keyboard -- come with drivers that are compatible with Microsoft Word 2003 or earlier, said Simon Phipps, chief open source officer at Sun. Vendors developing the assistive technologies have reverse-engineered Office 2003 interfaces to create the applications and devices, he said. "Right now, our focus is to ensure that people using assistive devices are able to join in with OpenDocument workflows," Phipps said. "Because Microsoft hasn't published interfaces for those devices to use, they are all hard-wired to Office 2003, and their users can't migrate to other software." Currently the state of Massachusetts, which is in the midst of a project migrating all office documents to ODF, is using the converter. Sun said it eventually plans to offer the converter for versions of Office that are earlier than 2003, and possibly for Office 2007, the newest version that was released last month. To create the converter, Sun built a library from OpenOffice.org that provides the same file conversions that are found in the OpenOffice.org and StarOffice productivity suites, Phipps said. Sun then added ODF support as a file format to all the places in Word using that library. Sun is not the only company that offers software to do ODF translation. IBM, which, along with Sun, is one of the most fervent supporters of ODF, has developed APIsthat specifically enable assistive technologies to talk to ODF-based applications. Through Project Missouri, IBM developed an API called iAccessible2 that make it easy for visuals in ODF-based applications to be interpreted by screen readers that reproduce that information verbally. Microsoft, which does not support ODF natively in Office, has funded the development of software that offers two-way conversion between the default format in Office 2007, Open XML, and ODF. The software, called the ODF Translator, was made available in 1.0 form last week on SourceForge.net. However, Microsoft did not include native support for ODF in its Office 2007 software, though it supports 30 other file formats in that suite. Microsoft hopes Open XML will follow the same path of ODF and be approved as an ISO standard; the file format is currently under consideration by the organization. However, Open XML is having trouble getting through the ISO approval process because certain countries are unhappy with the specification the way Microsoft submitted it, according to sources familiar with the process. ... More

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Washington PostUN General Assembly approves first convention protecting rights of ...International Herald Tribune, France - 6 hours agoAP. UNITED NATIONS: The General Assembly approved the first UN convention enshrining the rights of the world's 650 million disabled people, a blueprint aimed at ... UN adopts landmark bill for disabled rights CBC British ColumbiaUN Supports Rights of Disabled People ForbesUN approves convention to protect rights of disabled people People's Daily OnlineReuters - Seattle Post Intelligencerall 121 news articles... More

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