There was an announcement earlier today from hw which I will forward to the list. I am not sure if the apex can do it or not (I used a pc).
On 2/10/11, peter greco <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey Alex > Great summary! > How can one get 9,1 and can it be done just with the Apex? > Peter > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alex Hall <[email protected] > To: bn <[email protected] > Date sent: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:34:04 -0500 > Subject: [Braillenote] ks9.1: initial thoughts > > Hi all, > I have found a few things with 9.1: > > 1. The reset now seems to beep twice, once when the button is > pressed > and once when the unit actually resets. > > 2. During a reset, numbers appear on the right side of the > display. I > guess they are like a percentage of how far along the bn is in > the > booting process but am not sure. > > 3. It is true that, as was said in the presentation, no > "connection > configuration to use" prompt appears. However, this introduces a > rather large bug: if you have wifi off, or for some other reason > cannot get online, the bn will say "the page cannot be displayed" > instead of turning on wifi like it did in previous versions. > > 4. The enter-4-5-6 keystroke in terminal mode, used with iOS > devices > to pass the next keystroke directly to iOS instead of having it > interpreted by keysoft, works well. For example, hit > enter-4-5-6, then > hit space-h. Instead of help coming up, the Home button is > activated. > The only problem here is that this cannot be locked, so you must > press > it every time you want to use a keystroke which keysoft normally > interprets as a command. BTW, the scroll wheel is still not > active in > terminal mode with iOS. > > 5. The apex now acts as a braille terminal for jaws 12 on my > windows 7 > 64-bit machine, and the setup was easy. However, I cannot figure > out > how to use grade 2 entry; everything is in computer braille for > some > reason. This is likely my fault and not a bug, though. Oh, and > the > scroll wheel does indeed work, with the center button being > enter, > scrolling forward seeming to be arrowing down (and scrolling back > arrowing up), and I am not clear on the other four buttons. I > have not > yet figured out how to enter modifier keys or other commands. > > 6. Needless to say, the installation was great. I got the > license and > put it on a thumb drive. I went to the main menu and put in the > drive > and a prompt came up saying to perform a reset to install > licenses or > packages. After the reset, I saw that one license had been > installed. > I then repeated the process with the upgrade file itself. It > took > probably five minutes or so, with the bn telling me which step it > was > on and the percentage. The longest process was the extraction of > the > actual rom image, and that had no progress. My speech and > braille > preferences were used for this display. Once the installation > was done > and the machine had rebooted, it installed some documents and the > manual and it was done. Very slick! > > 7. The ability to action links and view tables in Word files is > really > handy and offers a significantly expanded range of files to the > bn, > whereas before we would have seen an exception message. I am > disappointed that docx support was not included, as that was > promised > for this upgrade back when the apex came out. Hopefully hw will > include this in a future release as a maintenance upgrade for 9.1 > and > it will still be free, but who knows? That is not to say that I > am > disappointed in the upgrade; hw did a wonderful job on the > updated > keyword and it is nice to not have to worry about a document > crashing > the program just because there is a link in it. > > -- > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from GMail website) > [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap > > ___ > Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. > If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a > copy to the list as well. > > 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 > > -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. 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
