I'm not confused, Tim, but I haven't yet got everything to work that you
suggest should be working, so I'll give my experience here, for waht it's
worth ...
I have got Facebook working nicely, I must say, on its own, using the mobile
site, and I'd highly recommend it as being very useable for what you can do
with the mobile. I've been locked out a couple of times when signing off
but have found how to ensure that I hit the button properly now. ...
I have chatted using Google Chat a few times and quite like it; but have
had only limited success with Ebuddy as it doesn't seem to think I have a
password, though I did sign up. Maybe I'll have to do that again. Until I
can get into Ebuddy, I can't think about chatting on Facebook. Has anyone
got this to work properly yet?
I finally got into Twitter yesterday but there are a few hoops to go through
on the way through the log-in stage as a some pages seem to have privacy
settings which aren't liked by the BN. In some cases I had to answer
whether I wanted to see secure and unsecure information and opted for
"secure" only, I think. In any event, I had to learn that there was only
one way that the "Yes" button seemed to like to be clicked ...
I found the whole experience rather messy, to be honest, and also that,
although on Twitter site it gives it as you gave it, m.twitter.com, I found
that I had to use the dash and not the full stop to get me there in the end
... (I'm in the UK but that shouldn't make a difference.)
Anyway, so that's my mixed experience with the Apex so far.
Any little secrets you can throw out to make this a more pleasurable
experience will be gratefully received.
Thanks.
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---- Original Message ----
From: "Timothy Clark" <[email protected]>
To: "Alex Hall" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Survey: top ten things that are
confusing betweenanmPower and an Apex
fokes, I just wanted to lay this out on the table.
Is anyone confused by the topics I and some list members
have been discussing such as instent messageing on the
braillenote?
On 9/12/10, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
Not quite. All computers have an operating system, just
as all cars have an engine. For the brailleNote, Braille
Sense, and PAC Mate families it is Windows CE; for the
Icon, Braille Plus, Elva, and others it is Linux.
However, each has a custom set of interface modules, for
doing things like representing menus or lists, or taking
and outputing braille. I said a moment ago that all cars
have engines. While this is true, cars have differently
designed pedals and gauges, so no two brands of car will
interface with the driver in quite the same way. It is
the same with the bn; keysoft is the set of pedals and
gauges interfacing between us, the users, and Windows
CE, the motor driving the actual computer inside the
plastic box.
In technical terms: Keysoft simply calls WinCE kernel
functions and system DLLs, such as drivers, to perform
tasks. For the most part, Keysoft itself is simply the
mechanism we use to talk to the underlying kernel. Take
it away and put a screen on the bn and it could run CE
alone. Nothing useful would come of this, though: while
many phones and similar devices also run Windows, they
run Windows Mobile. Essentially, Mobile and Keysoft are
the same thing. Mobile is a package running atop CE,
getting user input from a keyboard or a screen and
outputting via available output devices (screen
vibration motor, whatever).
On 9/12/10, Nicole B. Torcolini
<[email protected]> wrote:
Could you say that KeySoft is the bn's version of
Office, or not quite?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Hall" <[email protected]>
To: "Brandon Tyson" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2010 10:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Survey: top ten things that
are confusing betweenan mPower and an Apex
That is due to the underlying Windows CE version.
Keysoft is really just an interpreter; it can read and
write braille, speak through kng or Eloquence, and all
of that. However, for tasks like playing music,
loading web pages, managing files, and all the rest
that is not simple input/output, Keysoft relies on
Windows CE, a version of Windows designed for embeded
systems like phones or PDAs. The mPower runs CE4.2,
while the Apex runs ce6.0. That is a substantial
difference in features, and the particular feature to
use bluetooth headsets simply does not exist in CE4.2.
This is why object exchange is possible (though not
yet implemented) on the apex but not the mpower, and
why the apex can be paired with two bluetooth devices
at once while the mpower can only use one.
On 9/12/10, Brandon Tyson <[email protected]> wrote:
I'm confused just a little with why on the MPower you
can't use a bluetooth headset.
On 9/11/10, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote:
I think the biggest point of confusion would be all
the resets; boot loader is gone in the apex, and no
4-5 reset is needed to upgrade. Worse, though, a
4-5-6 reset does something different in the apex
than the mPower, and I gather that a service reset
is not only not the same thing, but is also not the
same button combo.
On 9/11/10, Joseph Lee <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi folks,
I noticed quite a few messages that might produce
some confusion here. So,
in order to cut down list traffic a little, I
thought I'd ask you (both
experts and newbies) on top ten things that they
are confused between an
mPower and an Apex. after it has been gathered, I
and other experts will
try
our best to answer those questions.
Cheers,
Joseph
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