Greetings everyone.
I will admit that Humanware needs to take the matters that have been
addressed here quite seriously. However, it doesn't help to constantly
badmouth the company when they are obviously felling their way through the
murger process with visuaid. We are a specialty market with special
needs. It is also important to point out that this is a list dedicated to
Humanware related products.
I remember when people were yelling and screaming to have the release of
keysoft 6.1. Instead of demanding for upgrades to be released, we should
be encouraging Humanware to release upgrades when they are thoroughly
tested to ensure a quality. I feel for those who have received their
braille notes with problems that should have been detected before they left
Humanware. Ronda Clark's problems shouldn't have happened. I can't help
but feel that the company has been under too much pressure to do things too
quickly and thus causing problems. At 07:08 AM 6/6/2005, you wrote:
I wasn't aware of the spreadsheet program but these guys had better start
listening to us because there are products being developed as we speak
which are doing what most of these people are asking for. Also, in defense
of humanware they and Visuaide are the only ones currently running gps
which is why I invested in the pk as I need gps where I am living.
Mary Ellen Earls
Remember! Today is the Tomorrow you thought about yesterday.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Speicher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Monday, June 06, 2005 6:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Future Upgrades
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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