files for download

utilities

clip speak
Clipspeak is a program that will speak the contents of your clipboard. If you need to verify something is written properly, or if you want your computer to read something outloud, just run clipspeak.
It's a pretty simple program, all it does is load, speak the contents of the clipboard, then exit. That's all. If you don't find it useful, then pass it along to someone who might.

talking calendar
This is a small universal calendar program with only a few features.
It has only about a dozen or so holidays in it, but it can handle dates for just about anything since the current calendar began up to the year 9999, and it shows dates in a month at a time display. You can move by month, day or year, and the documentation on how to use the program is included with the download, so hope it works for you. If it doesn't, that's ok too, as always, feel free to pass it along to someone else who might be able to use it.

dir zip
Dirsip is a program that will compress all the subdirectories in any given directory into their own zip files. It doesn't (currently) handle subdirectories included in any directories it compresses, (I.E. the main directory is level 1, and anything under that is level 2, which the program does handle, but anything under one of those directories would be considered level 3, and it won't handle those).
It will happily compress as many directories as you have, so if you have source directories, with each directory being a different project (like I have), then this program provides a quick way to create backups of all those projects with a single command..

pdf to text
This program will extract the text from any pdf file (that isn't protected), and place it in a text file with the same name as the original pdf file.
It's not able to handle every pdf file you throw at it, and it won't handle those with complicated formatting, but it should handle most things you need turned to text as long as they are relatively simple conversions.
The documentation has download links for the xpdf program this one calls to do it's actual work.

disk size
A simple program to show disk size in various units (bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, terrabytes), and is easier to get to than the control panel where that information is usually found.

Youtube Downloader User Interface
is a program to add a graphical interface to the youtube-dl program (though it works with wget and curl as well) for downloading youtube videos. It can also if desired download other files as well. You can paste in your urls (one per line), and it will then proceed to download each in turn until it's complete. A complete log is now kept of all the downloads, so you can see what has been downloaded. Hope this helps.

games

Battle at sea
One of the first games I wrote for blind users back in the early 2000 timeframe.
It's a simple battleship game, (instructions are included in the download), You are against the computer, and to be honest, the only strategy the computer has is to drop boms randomly until it gets a hit, then it will try to find the rest of the ship, and continue dropping bombs around that area until the ship is sunk. It leads to interesting results if you put multiple ships side by side, and it only finds one of them, but hits both of them while trying to sink one.
There is a bug in the program that sometimes prevents ships from being placed on the grid properly especially if you use the auto command to place your ships randomly on the game board.
Oregon Trail
This is a version of the original oregon trail. This one has been (slightly) modified to work on Freebasic ( and source is included. The original source is included in a pdf article copied from a 1978 magazine article located at: github.com/zstauber/oregon. The source should compile cleanly (except for a single warning) on any supported platform for FreeBasic, which includes windows, linux, OSX, BSD, and others.

tutorials

tutorial for using winrar with NV?DA

audio books for sale

Below is the list of books we sell in audio format. The older the listings, the less likely we'll be able to get a copy of the book, as inventory is limited, and age determines what may still be available, but if you need any of these books, let us know, and we'll be happy to check if it's available for you.
April 2017 list
May 2017 list
June 2017 list

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