Re: [Techno-Chat]: Braille Sense Polaris: First Impressions

2017-06-23 Thread Gordon Smith
That is utterly the wrong approach. The Touch, for example, gives you the option. You don’t have to use the touch screen at all, but it’s there if you want too. The device is intended for the use of the vision impaired and the blind and, of course, the deaf blind. Like the Hims tablet, the

Re: [Techno-Chat]: Braille Sense Polaris: First Impressions

2017-06-23 Thread Dane Trethowan
Humanware Man through and through? Sounds like a good made up lot of flapdoodle. On 24/06/2017 1:41 AM, Gordon Smith wrote: That is utterly the wrong approach. The Touch, for example, gives you the option. You don’t have to use the touch screen at all, but it’s there if you want too. The

RE: [Techno-Chat]: Braille Sense Polaris: First Impressions

2017-06-23 Thread Debbie Yuille
But then you would most likely have a fold down keyboard that is noisy like the touch's keyboard. The Polaris' keyboard is super quiet and in my opinion, a lot quicker to type on than using touch braille. That is why I prefer the Polaris. I like that we now have choice with our notetakers, one

[Techno-Chat]: SOUND FORGE Pro Mac 3 is here - save up to $408

2017-06-23 Thread Dane Trethowan
Hi! I posted an offer regarding Sound Forge Pro for Mac several weeks ago. It seems this offer is being repeated so here’s the link if you wish to take advantage of the fantastic upgrade pricing. >

[Techno-Chat]: Braille Sense Polaris: First Impressions

2017-06-23 Thread Gordon Smith
Good Friday to you one and all I've just spent a happy couple of hour teaching a client to use her new Braille Sense Polaris, whilst at the same time gaining an insight into the product myself. Whilst the Polaris has some interesting facits, it isn't a device that's on my own shopping list,

Re: [Techno-Chat]: Braille Sense Polaris: First Impressions

2017-06-23 Thread Dane Trethowan
I think the absence of a touch screen on a device may very well be a blessing for Hims Inc as not everyone is interested in a touch screen. 3GB of RAM is more than enough, though some of the newer Android devices have 4GB - and some 6GB - 3 is still ample, my absolute minimum would be 1GB,

RE: [Techno-Chat]: Phone backups was Apple's iOS11

2017-06-23 Thread Iaen Cordell
Sire, I have walked down this path several times before. At this stage I can not find a TOTAL backup solution for IOS devices. As for Android you can find several full/total backup solutions. >From a beered filled memory I think I have posted on them in the past, do we >have an archive of this