Again, my responses are below your questions. On 4/7/11, Richard Fiorello <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Everyone; > I have been looking through my email and have another basic question or > two or three. > First of all, if one has a date and time in the calendar can you set the > machine to turn itself on and give you an alarm when the date and time > show up or do you have to be smart enough to remember to turn the thing on? It will come on and sound an alarm. You can then cancel the alarm, make it "snooze", or any of a list of commands, all without the device needing to be turned on. Once you have entered a command, it will turn off again. There is only one alarm sound, a very insistent double beep sound, but you can set the volume on a scale from 1-32. > Secondly, Can anyone suggest some links to download both the manual as > well as something describing the unit and what connectors are where? I > have used eight dot braille but a braille keyboard with eight keys will > be interesting. Is there something like a shift key or shift lock? The dot 6 is used for capitalization in grades 1 and 2 as well as UEB. You can also set the unit to use 8 dot computer braille, where typing a letter together with the backspace key will capitalize the letter. Finally, you can do the same capitalization trick in computer braille by hitting backspace-h, which will tell the bn that the next character entered will be an 8 dot character. This is nice because, with 8 dot computer braille enabled all the time, commands like new line or volume and speech controls must be entered with a space. If you plan to use grade 2 or grade 1, though, none of this is a concern. > Finally, I promise, how are folks dealing with podcast without a podcast > program? I have a few feeds but I'm not certain if you can just copy > them into a browser. I rarely listen to podcasts, but if the link ends up at an mp3, wma, wav, or other supported file, you can just open it with the web browser and it will stream in the background. You can switch over to the media player to control the file (jump through it), or raise/lower the volume and pause or play the file from anywhere. You cannot control the speed or pitch. > Also, will the email program easily let you make folders and filters if > one subscribes to a few lists? You can make folders, but filtering is not possible, and subfolders are also not possible. Several people, myself included, have had bad luck with the email database getting corrupted. There are ways to fix this, but be aware that it can happen. Backups are a very good idea. Personally, I have been using the gMail mobile website for email for a couple years now, and I have never looked back. I can still send from the email program, so I can attach files, translate them to pc-friendly formats, use my address list, and all that, but reading messages is better on the site since I can filter, I have a good spam filter, and more that I won't get into now. > Feel free to reply off list. These are good questions that others may find helpful, so I will keep this on list for now. > > -- > richard > > ___ > 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 > >
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