Welcome to the list. Hope you enjoy your stay. smile. ----- Original Message ----- From: Yvonne Thomson To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:31 PM Subject: Yet another introduction
Hi, all Like the subject says, I'm yet another new os x user and this is yet another introduction. I've been wanting to take a look at voiceover ever since I heard of it. All the glowing reports about happy Mac users having a wonderful time and all their great tools were starting to drive me nuts. And then out came Voiceover. Of course, I didn't have a Mac, so I kept watching, and now finally I do. It's only a 12 inch g4 ibook, but speed wise it's not too bad, faster than my previous computer anyway, at trust me, the price was certainly write seeing as everyone's trying to get rid of them to make way for the new intel machines. I've been exploring voiceover for a couple of weeks now, and it's the usual rollercoaster I think we all must have gone through. Wow, this is cool. What? You mean I can't use that because it won't work with voiceover? Where the heck has that Voiceover cursor jumped to now? Wow, I can finally use that javascript app. But overall, I'm certainly enjoying the ride. The Javascript comment's probably clued you in, I'm not wandering in here from the wonderful world of windows and Jaws. Heck, the last time I was seriously using windows, it was win98 and I was using, if you can believe this, winvision by artic. So I've been a dedicated linux user ever since. Well actually, I should correct that. I've been a dedicated emacspeak user for years. Believe me, I practically use it as my only app. Mail, news, web browsing, my job, which is programming and some sysadmin. Time tracking projects for my clients, the whole deal. Needless to say, I haven't thrown it all out yet. Heck, as much as I'd like to take my usual tack when learning something major and dump everything and just use it exclusively, I've got to make a living, and I'm just not good enough yet to do that efficiently with voiceover. I *tried* to run emacspeak in terminal, using freetts as a speech server. If anyone else is interested in the results so far, let me know, and I'll give you a rundown. But basically, it's not working yet, and I'm not sure if it ever will. So on the weekend, I'm going to have to set this machine up to duel boot. This whole using two laptops thing is giving me a headache, and besides, my husband needs the laptop I *have* been using. This has been a heck of a lot more longwinded than it needed to be, I appologize. For anyone who's gotten this far, I'm really looking forward to participating in the list and learning a lot more about what this thing can do.
