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PAC Mate GearWelcome to PAC Mate GearThe PAC Mate is a Windows Mobile device for blind people and is produced by Freedom Scientific. The goal of this site is to be your resource for Everything PAC Mate. If you are looking for pricing information, links to PAC Mate firmware updates and Freedom Scientific Published matterials visit the PAC Mate Headquarters Braillesoft Accessible PAC MateSoftwareBraillesoft INC. has developed some free games specifically for the PAC Mate. These games provide a rich user experience, included sound effects and hours of great fun. Braillesoft has also developed a Shareware Internet Relay Chat application and a freeware FTP client. For more information on these resources visit the BrailleSoft PAC Mate software download page. You can also listen to the feature in FSCast Episode 11 Where Jonathan Mosen speaks with Louis Bryant, the man behind Braillesoft. Exciting Mobile Computing NewsThe latest Handheld and mobile news can be found on this daily updated PDA News Page. PAC Mate Gear PollsCheck out our latest poll, have an idea for a poll? contact us <view our latest poll Youtube on your PAC Mate OmniYou can now access youtube content directly from your PAC Mate Omni. This is the first notetaker to support youtube using off the shelf applications freely available to every Windows Mobile user. This functionality is provided free of charge and is just another way that the PAC Mate Omni's open platform benefits the whole user community. Thanks to a PAC Mate user for submitting this to us at PAC Mate Gear. Read the full article Assistant Web Developer PostingPAC Mate Gear is seaking an assistant Web Developer who will eventually take over primary site responsibility. Read More Site NewsJanuary 21, 2009Some exciting News this month from Freedom Scientific! PAC Mate 6.2 Update has been posted to the Freedom Scientific Web Site. This update provides several enhancements to the contracted Braille input and provides some important printer fixes. Download and get more information As Bookshare Subscribers probably know, earlier in January, Bookshare.org changed the way books are searched, downloaded, and formatted. Bookshare.org material is no longer distributed in the BKS format. Instead, books are compressed and encrypted using the popular ZIP format which can be opened on most computers. This means you can no longer use the Bookshare Unpack Utility to open Bookshare.org books onto your PAC Mate. In order to continue downloading and unzipping Bookshare.org books directly on your PAC Mate, you can download and use the free, third-party file-management utility called Total Commander. PAC Mate users and anyone else who would like to know more about how to download, install and use Total Commander to download and unzip books from Bookshare.org can go to Bookshare support on the PAC Mate for more details and step-by-step instructions. August 4, 2008Freedom Scientific posts PAC Mate Omni 6.1. Read more and download the update June 29, 2008Freedom Scientific posts their summer convention schedule in their latest NewsLetter. Read More and look for information on how to win Freedom Scientific productsMay 13,2008Today Freedom Scientific announced their Open Plan. This provides Humanware Notetaker owners to move to the open platform of the PAC Mate Omni. The trade in prices are really good, $995.00 for a BX400 or QX400 Read More If you live in Florida and would like to take advantage of this offer, please E-mail me If you do not live in Florida, please locate a dealer March 12, 2008Today Freedom Scientific made available a free Maintenance Release for the PAC Mate Omni. This maintenance update for the PAC Mate Omni BX and QX is an optional update that addresses specific usability issues that were discovered after the initial release of PAC Mate Omni. Installing this update will update your PAC Mate Omni from version 6.0.285 to 6.0.1019 and requires you to perform a clean reset which will delete all data including any additional applications you have installed. Installation of this update is not required and those who prefer may wait for the release of PAC Mate Omni version 6.1 which is expected in the second quarter of 2008. Version 6.1 will incorporate all of the changes included in this maintenance release plus other improvements and enhancements.Read More If you still haven't, you can Register for your PAC Mate Omni upgrade January 6, 2008It's that time of year again! As PAC Mate Gear moves in to our fifth year of service, we wanted to provide a chance for you to provide feedback. Please Fill out the PAC Mate Gear SurveyIf you are looking for previous months Site news please check our Site News Archive.
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