Hi, Mary Ellen:
The Blazie notetakers also have a small spreadsheet program, written by a
third-party developer. It's not big - only 16 columns by 64 rows - and
it's not fancy - just good enough to help you identify some of the
additional features you wish it had. But it's amazingly useful for anyone
trying to keep track of figures and their relationships. One of the very
useful features is a linkto function, which allows one sheet to fill in a
cell with data from another sheet. This allows you to do detailed work on,
say, payroll in a sheet dedicated to that function then bring only certain
figures, such as totals or the results of complicated formulas, into the
sheet which deals with the larger chunks of your financial situation. I
often use columns a through l for months 1 through 12, column m to total
the monthly figures in that row, column n to name the item being tracked in
that row, and columns o and p to do calculations on those totals. With
such a tool I can tell pretty well when the office has generated enough
income to cover projected basic expenses and applicable taxes for the year
and whether anything is left over.
I understand that the Braillenote is not intended to replace a pc. But for
my money, so to speak, a spreadsheet has a hundred times the practical
value of an mp3 player or streaming audio. There are lots and lots of ways
to listen to music or books other than on the Braillenote, but, at least
with my brain and often faulty memory, there is no real substitute for a
portable, accessible, functional spreadsheet. The Braillenote could be a
fine platform for such a piece of software, and that software would fill
what I consider to be a major hole in the Keysoft sweet.
At 10:23 PM 6/4/05, you wrote:
Nancy! I wrote Jonathan privately about the developer's kit and told him
that the bn needs a money manager. In 2003 when my desktop totally died I
was stuck trying to figure out how to handle my money until I remembered
the Blazie Note Takers had a check writing program which I have extremely
successfully used ever since.
Mary Ellen Earls
Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday.
----- Original Message ----- From: "nancy ungar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Pulse Data" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, June 04, 2005 6:34 PM
Subject: [Braillenote] Future Upgrades
First with regards to Rhonda's unit, didn't they test this before they
sent it back to you? Unfortunately, you might have to send the darn thing
in again! Why don't you insist they test and make 6.11 work seamlessly
for you because you as a person are worth it. With your expertise and
enthusiasm about this product, I would think you deserve the latest
updates as the rest of us. When they fix this, have them give you your
$100 back. Why should you be charged to downgrade if you have paid for
servicing your unit?
I think it would be exciting to have developers make this product even
more exciting and to have the hardware upgraded. However, Jonathan knows
that I've been asking for a year about a money manager progrm and other
nameless people have been asking for that for more than one year.
Jonathan said he put my request inthe log file, but he said that these
upgrades only work if more than a couple people want them, if I'm not
mistaken. Please, folks, if anyone else wants this update as badly as I
do, put it on the list, let Jonathan know, or both. Thanks in advance.
Nancy
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