UW-MILWAUKEE ENHANCES ITS ADAPTIVE TECHNOLOGY - The Golda Meir Library on the UWM campus has added to its adaptive technology study room. The increased hardware includes an enhanced computer system with a large-screen monitor, trackball, mouse and large print/braille keyboard labels, as well as Intellikeys alternative soft-touch keyboard. New adaptive software includes Zoomtext magnification, JAWS voice output and DragonDictate voice input. Additional equipment includes a Magni-Cam handheld magnifying camera, an audio cassette tape player/recorder with speed control and a Kurzweil Reading Edge scanner that converts print to speech. Students and teachers will also find closed- captioned videotapes. (UWM Report 5 Nov 98, Vol 19 No 9)

WEB SEARCHING INFORMATION - If you're in the market for a mega search tool, you may wish to try Infoseek's new Express. The software tool works with Browsers (3.0 & above) on Windows 95/98/NT 4.0 machines and searches multiple search engines simultaneously (Infoseek, AltaVista, HotBot, Excite, Lycos, Webcrawler and Yahoo). It allows you to view your results in any order you want, save your search queries for future reference, and find the searched for information within the document. It also removes duplicate results.

In addition to the general search, there are 97 pre-designed yet customizable categories that let you narrow your search. These include groupings such as search engines, weather, colleges, dictionaries, newsgroups, white & yellow pages, email addresses, government info., street maps, driving directions etc. to name a few.

The software is free and can be co-branded for distribution. With a CO-branded version, your logo and title gets placed at the top of each page; you have and can name your own search category with five original links to websites of your choice, and you have one button access at the top of the search page for each of your five categories. Once installed, users can add additional links or remove links from the categories.

If you'd like to see a CO-branded version, you can download UWM's Adult & Continuing Education Alumni Association's version at http://express.infoseek.com/download_express.phtml?dve_id=1412 With this version, we've included links to our alumni assoc. websites, campus directories, our academic program homepage, and our UWM Web Course in a Box Index page at http://www.uwm.edu/~lll
(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Information and Media Technologies)