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Adobe Flash Player for the reader feed playlists. This is
available for FREE from Adobe at
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for YOUR browser. If the yellow bar drops down from your
browser and indicates Adobe Flash, please install this add-on.
This will allow the feeds in the playlist to play in your browser.
ARCHIVES - the Archives page are copies
of playlists from previous days, and months posts. They are ALL active
and still
available for your review and re-plays.
AUDITIONS - Record a newspaper article
to a .MP3 file and attach it to an email. Please send your audition to
auditions@newspapersfortheblind.org We will contact you with more
information and THANK YOU!
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undertaking and your support is needed. PLEASE click the DONATIONS and
contribute to our continued success.
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website. You can download the latest (Free Version) of JAVA at
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of
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install the JAVA add-on.
Please keep your JAVA up-to-date when you
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PLAYLIST - If the playlist is UPDATED in the morning as you
are listening, you may MISS some feeds REFRESH your browser
and the
playlist will update with the latest listings. This works the SAME for
Today's and Breaking Newspapercasts. If this DOES NOT
work, delete
your browser cookies and cache and close your browser and try the site
again.
READERS - If you have a problem with
LOGIN for your UPLOADS, please
contact
eeboas@newspapersfortheblind.org
If you are a NEW reader and need
access to the UPLOADS section of the website
contact
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FILE PROTOCOL - REQUIRED for
Publishing - There is a file protocol for *.MP3 filenames
Example: 2009-20-10-SST-AFP-JS.mp3 or 2009-20-10-SST-SINGH-JS.mp3
(Mohammed Singh, author, JS=Jack Smith)
First YEAR-DAY-MONTH-Singapore Straits Times (abbreviated SST)-Author
Name.MP3
DO NOT use (underscore _ anywhere in the filename!) - ONLY use the (dash -)
- PLEASE!
READERS PUBLICATION ABBREVIATIONS - The
newspaper abbreviations used in the FILE PROTOCOL can
can be VIEWED HERE or downloaded and
saved HERE in EXCEL format
READERS - Please visit our "Help Pronounce" page as needed (Updated 11-18-09)
If you find or have additional problems with this website - HELP US OUT - and let
us know. Send an email to
eeboas@newspapersfortheblind.org
More will be added to this HELP
listings as needed in the future
Thank you.
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Updated May 4, 2010