hey, thanks, that did!!! I'm assuming VM-ware is something that lets you
switch between the two oS's easier?
peace and positivity:)
Jessi with guide dog Goldina
I am only one but I am one,
I can't do everything but I can do something,
the something I can do, I must do,
and by the grace of God, I will!
count it all joy, no matter what!
----- Original Message -----
From: "michael babcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: a newbie with questions!
i'll try to address some of your questions. I've been using the mac for a
few months now, and was completely windows for thel ongest time.
well here we go.
From what i've seen, the plug and play works just fine on the mac. I can
plug in thumb drives and they work just fine. I also pluged in an external
harddisk that with xp media i had to install drivers and it was found in
the finder right away.
I'm going to leave textedit alone since i have not messed w ith it hardly
at all.
I as well though am curious about the open office stuff, does it work well
with vo?
and if you get vm ware you can install windows just fine. I like it,
mainly because well, they have a 30 day trial before you have to buy the
program, and second with vm ware you dont have to re boot the mac. I'm
using it just fine.
hth a bit
mike:
blog
gwfans.net
site in work:
audioficks.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jessi R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:12 AM
Subject: a newbie with questions!
hey, people!
my name is Jessi and I'm new to the list. I was at CSUN this past week,
where I got to play with voiceover both just generally and also
exclusively with ITunes. I was so impressed with it that I'm now possibly
thinking a bout switching to a mac, and this is kinda weird for me since
I've been a windows user with jaws for about ten years. but voiceover and
the mac really made an impression on me and I feel like I'm up for a
challenge and something new!
I have quite a few probably silly questions though, so I'm hoping ya'll
can give me some answers.
does the mac have plug and play, like windows or would I have to install a
bunch of drivers for my printer/scanner etc?
text edit...is it a fully functional word processor with a good spell
checker, all the attributes you can add to your text in ms-word, etc? is
there a way to tell with voiceover whether text is single/double spaced,
the font, where the indents are, all that important stuff? I'm a creative
writing/journalism major in college, so having a good, fully functional
word processor is very very important to me.
I heard that voiceover also worked with open office, which apparently is a
freeware wannabe office suite...is that true?
would there be a way for me to save files as .doc or .rtf or something
that other people could open on their pc's?
I heard it's possible to load windows onto the mac and then switch between
the two operating systems...is that hard to do? I thought I might do that
and kinda use both until I got to know voiceover really well.
is there an accessible OCR program, like open book or k1000, for the mac?
I think that's all I have for now, but I'm sure I'll be back with more,
lol.
peace and positivity:)
Jessi with guide dog Goldina
I am only one but I am one,
I can't do everything but I can do something,
the something I can do, I must do,
and by the grace of God, I will!
count it all joy, no matter what!
