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From: Greg Kearney <[log in to unmask]>
To: Technical Developments Discussion List
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Sent: Mon, 4 Aug 2008 20:38:04 -0600
Subject: Olearia the Macintosh DAISY

> Olearia is a project written entirely in Cocoa/Objective-C and 
> is  designed to bring the versatility of talking books (Both 
> Daisy and  others) to Mac OS X. Due to recent enhancements in 
> accessibility and  code generation with the release of Leopard 
> (OS X 10.5) Olearia is  only available for 10.5.x and newer.
> 
> Olearia will open Daisy 2.02 and V3 (ANSI/NISO Z39.86-2002 and 
> ANSI/ NISO Z39.86-2005) standard books and other format 
> variations such as  Bookshare will be added later.
> 
> Features
> 
> Full navigation of the book structure.
> 
> Direct page access (ie go to Page).
> 
> Bookmark management on a per book basis.
> 
> Fast forward and rewind of audio content for a given audio segment.
> 
> Playback speed and volume adjustment.
> 
> More to come
> 
> Help is always appreciated and feel free to contact us if you 
> would  like to contribute to this project.
> 
> You can get the Olearia source code at: http://code.google.com/p/olearia/
> 
> Greg Kearney
> 
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