Hi,
I am a completely new user of the Mpower Braillenote suite of programs.
Firstly I have to say that I think the actual braille display fantastic.
I think that a few changes could be made to the introductory tutorial. Being
left-handed, I wanted to know how to change the thumb keys to support me
better; and although i was told that there was a left-handed mode, the
tutorial was strangely silent about how to accomplish the task. Maybe the
staff could lood at this; it would only need a couple of lines. I did find
out how to change the thumb keys to accommodate my situation; but it wasn't
mentioned in the introductory tutorial.
Next, I wanted to emboss a document. I have an Index double-sided embosser
which uses a parralel port. I was told that this could be done; but I had no
advice as to what I should connect from the mpower serial port to the
parralel port, and when I asked for advice, I was told by the Uk
distributors of mpower that yes, there possibly was something available, but
that it might cost me around 150 pounds. It was a special box which did ...
well this and that. There must be lots of folks like me who have an embosser
using a parralel port. A normal printer costing around 30 or 40 pounds is
reasonbale to make some sort of adjustment; but not an embosser such as
mine, costing around 2,000 uk pounds. What is the solution of this problem?
Next, I wondered if there was a disk drive supporting Cds, which I could
use, which would connect to the Usb port of the Mpower? Apparently not;
there is no such thing supported yet. This is something of a dissapointment;
I should have thought it was not an unreasonabler request. Ah well, keep
hoping; perhaps it will come in time.
Apart from these small quibles, I find the Mpower a great product, and am
very pleased with it; and the braille display is terrific.
Cheers
Roger
----- Original Message -----
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] software development kit?
Hi all, firstly this thread has been somewhat complicated because it has
diverged into the topic of whether you can get a virus on a BrailleNote.
The answer to that is quite simple. You can't, as the message a list
member
forwarded from Dean yesterday explains in detail.
regarding the SDK, as those of you who've been on this list a while will
recall, earlier this year I put out a call for expressions of interest
from
developers who would work with an SDK, so we could enter into some
dialogue
with them about applications and the extent of an SDK. We may well still
make something available, but frankly, what this exercise showed me was
that a lot of the clammer for an SDK is coming from users who are not
developers. What people are really saying is that they want the
BrailleNote
to do more, and an SDK is the perceived solution. For this large group,
the
SDK is the means, but not the ends. The end is more functionality.
As you will know, we have substantially increased the resourcing on the
BrailleNote in the last 18 months or so. The growth has been phenomenal.
Since March of 2004, we've completely rewritten the Planner, introduced
BrailleNote PK with a raft of new functionality, upgraded the operating
system in the Classic units and introduced wireless, introduced
BrailleNote
mPower with all its new features such as streaming, audio recording etc.
So
you can see that the growth really has been significant, even though many
of these projects have involved a lot of things taking place under the
hood. The operating system upgrade process is complex, and obviously,
designing and building a brand new piece of hardware is a major task. Now
that a lot of those infrastructural type projects are out of the way, you
will see even more and rapid improvement in the actual functionality of
KeySoft. KeySoft 7 promises to be our most exciting release ever. Some of
the things you say you want the BrailleNote to do are actively under
development now. Does this mean that we're not going to do an SDK? Not at
all, it's still under consideration. But for the majority of our users,
what they want is for the BrailleNote family to do more things for them,
and that's our focus in everything we do.
Jonathan Mosen
BrailleNote Product Marketing Manager
HumanWare
DDI: +1-925-566-9265
http://www.humanware.com
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