Hello there:
I just wanted to chime in here.
A good friend of my who is on this list told me about Tiger and
Voiceover on the Mac. I had gotten my start in adaptive technology
using Macs though I thought they were a little complicated and
besides Outspoken which was the speech option for the Mac was not
keeping up with the times.
This conversation with my friend occurred on a Friday. I thanked him
for the information and placed the phone back in the receiver
thinking that it would be a nice idea to try out the mac sometime in
the future ... but not now.
The next day, which was a saturday, my PC died ... literally just
stopped working. I spent Sunday trying to revive it with the help of
two good friends who were computer geeks. no dice. Monday morning I
received a check in the mail from a project I had completed. 3
guesses where I was Monday afternoon? walked out with an I-Book, a
scanner, ReadIris, and a printer ... just because I wanted one
(smile). I have never looked back. This email is being composed on a
Mac Mini and the I-Mac is sitting in the box awaiting desk space.
I am not a computer genius (smile). anyone on this list will tell you
that (wink). the mac allows me to do just about anything I would want
to do and that list is expanding. if you want to email and surf the
web, mac can do that. if you want to compose documents mac can do
that although there will be some things currently that cannot be
done. it depends on the features you want in your edited documents. I
never thought I would enjoy taking pictures and editing movie
files ... mac can help with that.
In short, the big question is what you want to do with a computer and
if it is what others do with a computer mac might be able to
asist ... and they are sexier looking machines (wink).
I am glad my friend called me that Friday before my computer died
otherwise I might have done something else with the money ... like
buy another PC ... ouch ... what a thought (smile).
Oh, and a plug for this list. if you think you cannot do whatever it
is by using a mac ... stick around. someone on this list will be
willing to walk along with you to get it done.
OK, enough out of me (smile).
Take good care and I wish you enough.
On Jan 8, 2008, at 12:38 AM, mary otten wrote:
for those of you who use the mac exclusively, what do you do for an
ocr program? is there one that has good ocr capability to match
what is available with windows that is efficiently usable by a
blind person?
mary
