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Thursday, September 25, 2008

Labeling CD Jewel Cases and Cataloguing Media

For those of you who are blind or visually impaired music lovers and who own stacks and stacks of CDs, this question is for you. Have you ever had a song get stuck in your head and just want to pick it out from all your CDs and listen to it right away? One method to find a particular CD is to play each one until you find the right CD, but think of how long it would take to do this! Also, by the time you do find the right CD, the song would probably no longer be in your head.

In order to solve this problem, I finally decided to label my CDs in a manner that would allow me faster access to the one I'm looking for. To do this, I recommend you use a braille labeler with Dymo tape. Hold the CD case in front of you with the cover side up and opened away from you. Stick the label at the edge of the cover closest to your body.

It is not advised to put a label directly on a CD. Research has shown that the label can cause the CD to spin improperly, preventing it from playing in some devices.

This labeling method gives blind folks and our sighted peers quick access to our CDs.

Braillable Labels and Sheets from APH

These clear, blank self-adhesive labels can be brailled and used to label items around the home, school, and office, such as: household appliances; canned goods; greeting cards; books; CDs; folders. The labels come in a variety of packages and sizes for convenience. The pre-cut, peel-off Large and Small labels accommodate braille lines that are 15 cells wide, with four lines fitting on the large and two on the small labels. Full-Size and Pin-Fed Sheets offer more room for brailling and can be cut to the desired size. A printed SimBraille sheet is included with each package to assist in determining size and placement.

Assorted Label Pack (5 Large Sheets, 5 Small Sheets, 10 Full-Size Sheets, 30 Pin-Fed Sheets):
Catalog Number: 1-08871-00

Small Label Pack (10 Sheets, 18 labels (3.87 x 0.95) per Sheet):
Catalog Number: 1-08872-00

Large Label Pack (10 Sheets, 10 Labels (3.875 x 1.75) per Sheet):
Catalog Number: 1-08873-00

Braillable Sheets



15 Sheets (8 1/2 x 11, full-size):
Catalog Number: 1-08874-00

30 Continuous Sheets (8 1/2 x 11, pin-fed):
Catalog Number: 1-08875-00

Sherlock Talking Label Identifier

The Sherlock Talking Label Identifier is a hand-held digital voice recorder with each recorded message keyed to an adhesive label or plastic disk tag. Labels or tags can be attached to clothing, medications, packaged products, frozen foods, documents, books, CDs, anything you wish to identify. Includes 25 labels, 10 tags and carrying case.

Sherlock Talking Label Identifier: Catalog Number: 1-07410-00

Extra Adhesive Labels (pack of 25):
Catalog Number: 1-07411-00

Extra Plastic Tags (pack of 10):
Catalog Number: 1-07412-00

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Catalogue CDs and Other Media with WhereIsIt

WhereIsIt is an application written for Windows operating systems, and designed to help you maintain and organize a catalog of your computer media collection, including CD-ROMs, audio CDs, diskettes, removable drives, hard drives, network drives, DVDs, or any other present or future storage media Windows can access as a drive.

The primary goal for WhereIsIt is to provide access to the contents of cataloged disks, even when they are not available on the system, or even not your own. You can browse their contents, search for items you need, use imported descriptions and thumbnails, and organize data using categories, flags etc.

WhereIsIt can be used to handle any kind of data, including downloaded programs, magazine CD-ROMs, music collections like MP3s or audio CDs, graphics collections, document backups, etc. WhereIsIt can handle lots of them, too, a couple hundreds or thousands disks in a catalog is nothing unusual, yet catalogs remain reasonably small, single-filed and easy to transfer or send to other users. You can also create more than one catalog, and at any time open and work with as many catalogs at once as needed.

The program is easy to use for both beginners and advanced users and is screen reader friendly. It features a familiar and well thought-out, Explorer-like user interface, combined with strong searching and reporting capabilities, multi-language support, automated description and thumbnails importing through extendable plugins from more than 70 different sources, and much more.

During the last nine years, more than 85.000 users have chosen WhereIsIt. Find out why, Click this link to download your free evaluation copy now!

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