Joseph, thanks for those. Ah ha! you've answered my long awaited
question about why I can't use my BrailleNote as a display on my
Vista laptop. Ah well, least I can still use the BrailleNote's other
functions for now until the workaround is available. Thanks once
again, and take care.
At 07:32 05/01/2008, Joseph Lee wrote:
Hi folks,
As I reported earlier, I do have few updates and surprises for you.
But first I would like to apologize for delay in posting the audio
material, as I was concentrating on my AP studies and college
preparations. Here are the new recordings:
* The Long awaited, much anticipated episode of BrailleNote Podcast
is now online - in this third edition, I cover Options Menu. Because
of time and storage considerations, it is in two parts:
A. Part 1 introduces Options Menu,steps through each item for brief
intro and takes a look at Braille Options (formerly Braille Display Options).
B. Part 2 continues from Part 1 and covers Keyboard Settings, Review
Voice and other items.
Few notes:
* Connectivity: although I mentioned it, it is planned to be covered
on a separate podcast.
* Speech volume: there might be some differences in speech volume
between these two recordings. On the first part, the keyboard is
somewhat quieter; this is because I used my desktop to record it,
using a line-in patch cord (like I've done) and microphone was far
away from the keyboard. On the second part, the keyboard is
considerably louder; this is because I used my laptop to record this
podcast, connecting my speaker cord to my BN's headphone jack and
placing my BrailleNote closer to the microphone.
* Also, another BrailleNote Chat is up on the BGZ site - many people
requested that I upload the Fourth BrailleNote Chat (conducted on
September 2007); now, it is here. This time, it is in two parts,
owing to the fact that I conducted multiple chats over two days.
These above recordings can be found at usual location:
www.blind-geek-zone.net, then go to Audio link, then find a heading
called "New Posts."
Few notes of interests:
* I "discovered" that Micro SD cards works well with BrailleNote. I
bought a Sandisk 1 GB Micro SD card, intending to use on my Samsung
Blackjack running Windows Mobile 5 and MobileSpeak Smartphone, but
it apparently did not insert correctly; fortunately, this little
fingernail-sized card came with a standard SD card adapter. So I
connected my Micro SD card to this SD adapter and inserted into my
BrailleNote's SD slot and KeySoft automatically said "SD Card
Ready." Just like regular SD cards, High Capacity (HC) Micro SD
cards does not work with BrailleNote. The highest capacity that I
heard of this card is about 6 GB (and 2 GB for normal cards).
* I finally found out why one cannot use BrailleNote as a display
under Vista: it is due to the way the com ports are set up.
Previously under XP, whenever a virtual serial port is created,
Witcom assumes that it is both an outgoing (meaning that a screen
reader such as JAWS will be able to connect to one's BN) and
incoming port (where BrailleNote can connect to one's PC). Under
Vista, it is different: when you are adding a virtual com port, you
need to specify which "direction" the com port will use (either
incoming, where a device such as BrailleNote will be able to connect
to your computer, or outgoing, where another program on your
computer will be able to connect to your BrailleNote. While you can
create an incoming port, you cannot create an outgoing port unless
you have a supported device that offers some services (BrailleNote
is not one of them). I (or someone) would be able to find a work
around, but as of now, the reason for unavailibility of Bluetooth
display under Vista stand thus.
* I also managed to connect my BraillenOte to a smartphone running
MobileSpeak Smartphone (those of us who are running MSS or who are
on MobileSpeak mailing list will recognize what I am talking about).
These are some of the updates that I have right now. Once again, my
apologies for delaying in posting podcasts.
Cheers,
Joseph
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