hey welcome to the list jessi! glad you're here! i've had my mac for
over a year. it'll be 2 years in may. if you have any questions just
here or gt with me privatly also if you need more help.
On Mar 18, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Jessi R wrote:
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]
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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]
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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!
