Hi, Tom, Question for you. Okay: I saved a magazine pc world and I want them to send me an e-mail saying that a new issue is out. How can I do this with the BrailleNote? Please write back. Jose Lomeli BrailleNote Bt user. e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Running Keysoft Version 5.1.
> ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Tom Lange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected] >Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:59:15 -0700 >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] web braille >Hi Jose, >When you explore Web-Braille, you'll find that the main page is pretty >straightforward, and that there are links that point to Braille Book Review, >the online catalog, a list of titles organized alphabetically by author, >Braille Music, Braille Magazines, and so on. It's not terribly difficult to >get around. However, there are some things to be aware of. There are >several ways to search the online catalog, for example. My personal >preference is to use the Voyager interface and choose the option for Guided >Search. That option lets you search the records in the database by title, >author, and keyword. It lets you do Boolean searches if you're so inclined, >for fine-tuning your search if you want to. >The Braille Book Review section contains electronic versions of Braille Book >review, and it's my personal fave, as that's where I find the mose >recently-added books. Each issue is in text format or HTML. You'll want the >HTML version for online browsing. Issues are added every two months. If >you're familiar with the hardcopy Braille version, you'll notice that the >electronic versions correspond exactly, being broken down into sections for >adult nonfiction, adult fiction, children's nonfiction, children's fiction >and so on. Pick the issue that you want and click on that link, then go to >the desired section. >The Lists section is organized alphabetically by author, as I already >mentioned. Pick the letter that corresponds to the author that you want, as >in D for De Mille, G for Grisham, K for King, et cetera. Click and browse. >One thing that is annoying about the lists and Braille Book Review is that >if you space or tab around from link to link in the book listings, you won't >see or hear any titles spoken. So, what I do is just scroll through, or >better yet, if I'm looking for some specific title, I'll do a text search on >the page. That usually works. >Some people like to download directly to the Braille Note or Voice Note. I, >personally, like to download to the PC and transfer the volumes over, >because I'd probably back up the volumes to my PC anyway. Different strokes >for different folks. When I find a book that I want and am going to >download it to my PC, I go to each volume's link, then right-click using the >numpad-star key, second one over from the num lock. That brings up a >context menu. Arrow down to "save target as..." and press enter. You'll >get the Save As dialog and be prompted for a filename. By default, each >volume has the BR book number with some sort of suffix. I always ditch the >default filename in favor of a more meaningful name such as the actual book >title or an abbreviated version, followed by the volume number, as in The >Lion's game1, the lion's game2, and so on. Leave the .brf extension alone. >If your PC doesn't know what to do with .brf extensions, Windows will append >a .txt extension when you download the file, which is another annoyance. >You'll have to tell Windows what kind of file that is, and if you know how >to do that in the Filetypes tab under Folder Options, you're in business. >Once that's done, though, you won't have to worry about it. >Rather than making this post too long and boring everybody to tears, I'll >leave it at that and move on. Write back if you want additional details. >Tom >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote Outgoing mail is Virus Scanned byNorman Data Defense. Inbound Spam reduced 98.2% byVircom Sieve. ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
