Good one Ann! Also one feature I like about the BN is that there is hardly ever only one way to do something. If you forget the letter, just run down the menu. It is a lot easier than Jaws for someone like me with Epolepsi. I created my own notes file and when ever I am reading the Braille Moniter, and want to get a book or remember a name and number, I just put it in Notes. Sometimes you only need something for a short time so I put it there instead of in the address book.
Terry Powers -----Original Message----- From: Ann K. Parsons [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 10:21 PM To: Braillenote List Subject: re: [Braillenote] another braille note suggestion Hi all, Alex, good thinking, but I'm wondering if having a device that virtually does everything for one would dumb down the device until no thought or care or intelligence was needed to use it. Now, I'm not saying your idea is bad, but consider the fact that when you are asked where you want your file, and what you want it to be called, the BrailleNote assumes that *you* are intelligent enough to know where you want your file to be stored and what you want to name it. These are clear indications that the makers of the BrailleNote respect us enough to assume that we have the intelligence and the desire to control our own devices and to use them and the information they contain as we see fit. What you're looking for is a device that mimics Windows. What you want is someone to decide that all your documents should go into My Documents, all your music should go into My Music and so on. You actually have to deliberately take control of a Windows computer and tell it "No, I don't want my files in My Computer! I want them in a folder called Office. I want my classical music in a folder called classical and my folk music someplace else. I want my downloaded files to go into a folder of my choosing, and not all downloaded files should go there." The next time you pick up your BrailleNote and ask it to create a file and you have to go through what you *think* is a cumbersome process, remember that the process is there because Humanware, as its name implies, figures that humans should control computers, not the other way around! Just my philosophical thoughts for a Tuesday Evening. Ann P. -- Ann K. Parsons email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp Skype: Putertutor "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT ___ 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 ___ 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
