One comment on the FM radio.
We also have Sirius satellite radio in our home, and we have the unit on
transmit so that any stereo or radio in the house can pick up the signal by
tuning to a specific frequency on the band. We can listen to the
transmission from the satelite receiver on every radio and stereo in our
house except the mPower. It does not pick up the transmitted signal. Yes,
that disappoints me.
Jean
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From: "Olitta Fa'apusa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2006 10:17 PM
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] A Call for Better Keyword Support and other
things
While I do agree with you that work related programmes are very very
important, games and radios are fun for some of us, and those are
incredible developments from my point of view which I'm very greatful for.
----- Original Message -----
From: "G B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "'Braillenote List'" <[email protected]
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 13:29:49 -0800
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] A Call for Better Keyword Support and other
things
Ha ray ha ray for you Jean!!! I feel the same when you need and or buy a
product to help you in the job world they should have their priorities to
in
better us in the job force, not playing games and radios.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jean Menzies
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 13:16
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Subject: Re: [Braillenote] A Call for Better Keyword Support and other
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Tom
Very well said.
While I can't speak to the exact issue you speak of with the web links, it
points out a glaring weakness. Yes, my vote is for fully compatible
productivity tools. Scaled down versions are not good enough. I'm not
saying
anything has been scaled down, but we do need up to date and full
funcionality.
I realize the BN family runs on a proprietary platform, even though it's
Windows CE. And I know that on one hand that gives us the freedom to have
our braille environment, etc. But I'm wondering if they couldn't
integrate
more flexibility to allow third-party Windows CE programs to be downloaded
by the end user, while at the same time preserving some of the current
approaches? For example, run KeyWord,. but also have the ability to
maybe
run Pocket Word with keyboard equivalents for functionality? E.G., when I
read the documentation for using the BN to directly input text on the PC,
there are BN commands to emulate PC cursor movements, etc. BN standard
commands could be developed to allow integration with other aps. Okay, I
know nothing of the programming, but that's just an idea and a direction I
would like to see.
While I'm a newish BN user, I feel the features introduced in version 7
are
mostly for the lesure user and focus on play rather than productivity.
Just
my opinion, and I'm only one person. Nothing wrong with play, but my
desires all fall on the other side of the coin.
Jean
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 1:57 PM
Subject: [Braillenote] A Call for Better Keyword Support and other things
Hi list and Humanware support staff,
There are times when I have to vent and get something off my chest, and
this
is one of them.
Today I encountered two problems with a Word document that I downloaded
from
the Project Assist web site in connection with a course that I'm taking.
First, after downloading the document to my PC and transferring it to a
BN
Classic running Keysoft 6.11 build 26, I attempted to open the file in
Keyword, at which time I got the "review options?" prompt. So far, so
good,
but when I pressed Enter on that prompt I was told that the file was not
a
recognized Word document. I re-saved the file on the PC as a Word 97
file,
transferred that one, opened it and it worked fine. As it turns out, I
couldn't open the original file until I did a 1-2-3 reset, then all was
well. However, that led to a second problem.
The Word file in question contained a number of web addresses which I
needed
to visit in order to complete a class assignment. Though I could see
them
quite clearly when viewing the Word file on the PC, they were omitted
entirely from the document when viewing it in Keyweb. I was unaware
that
Keyweb wouldn't display embedded hyperlink fields in a Word document,
so,
frankly, I was a little surprised, and, a tad bit annoyed.
My Braille Note is on its way back to me, having been upgraded to an
MPower
which should be running Keysoft 7, and I'm really excited about that.
Having
heard about all the neat functionality built into Keysoft 7 and the
MPower
platform, I can't wait to take the unit for a spin.
However, I need to reiterate and expound on something that I've been
saying
for a long, long time. Humanware development managers have been very
responsive to the needs and wants of the customers, and I extend a
hearty
thumbs-up for their efforts thus far to enhance the functionality of the
product offering. Many folks, myself included, asked for a faster
hardware
platform and got it, a newer version of Windows CE and got it. Folks
asked
for enhanced media player support, streaming audio, database
functionality,
and the list goes on, and all of that is here now, and that's great!
But what about the long-standing issues that still need to be addressed?
Humanware needs to recognize and remember that there's a significant
percentage of folks within the user population who, like myself, use the
Braille Note for education and business as well as pleasure on a
day-to-day
basis, so special consideration must be given to ensuring that those
applications that can be used for education and business have the best
possible support that the platform will offer. This means that Keyword,
for
example, needs to be able to handle any Word document version that's
thrown
at it, and that in the interest of being fully and seamlessly integrated
into education and business-related activity, it needs to, among other
things, be able to handle fancier formatting such as tables without
crashing and handle markup such as embedded hyperlinks without omitting
the
associated information. It also means that those memory glitches which
cause critical documents to mysteriously disappear into the bit bucket
need
to be isolated and dealt with in no uncertain terms. Yeah, I ran across
that one a couple of weeks ago and let me tell ya, folks, re-creating my
data wasn't much fun.
These issues still haven't been fully addressed in years, and it's
become
apparent that those of us who are concerned about them just haven't
"made
enough noise" by submitting formal requests to Humanware development or
the
support team. So I urge those who feel as I do, stand up and be
counted.
Voice your concerns on the list yet again, and write to Humanware
support
directly as I'm doing at this very moment, so that Humanware development
managers can see the numbers and know that we're out here clamoring for
resolution of these issues.
Okay, time to get off my soapbox. No flames, please. See y'all later.
Tom
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