thanks, more good stuff!! reading all these responses is getting me
excited...I wanna go buy a mac right now, lol. I can't wait til I can use
ITunes again! being able to search the store and use it a bit at the CSUN
session was wow...I never thought I'd ever be able to use it! it was
amazing!!
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: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS Xby
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: a newbie with questions!
Hi Jessi,
I'm going to use dp: to mark my responses inline with parts of your
message
below:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jessi R" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 2:12 PM
Subject: a newbie with questions!
does the mac have plug and play, like windows or would I have to install a
bunch of drivers for my printer/scanner etc?
dp: I've not found a piece of hardware yet that requires drivers that are
not already readily available on the Mac. I would say though that if
drivers are required, they are provided with the hardware.
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.
dp: you will want to get an 3rd party document shredder do do some of the
fancy stuff but I don't know how good voiceove support is for all that you
need to do.
I heard that voiceover also worked with open office, which apparently is a
freeware wannabe office suite...is that true?
dp: it's not a wannabe at all. VO does not work with it though.
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?
dp: windows will read text edit files because they are either .txt, html,
xml or rtf and I guess you can save them as doc too.
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.
dp: bootcamp which allows you to partition your hd and run windows as a
dedicated bootstrap is free and comes with your new Mac. It's better
cecause you have a 100% windows compatible system which you do not with
any
vmware. for your purposes at least initially, this might be a better way
to
go.
is there an accessible OCR program, like open book or k1000, for the mac?
dp: we are getting along just fine with off the shelf OCR packages.
I think that's all I have for now, but I'm sure I'll be back with more,
lol.
peace and positivity:)
dp: pleae look at the archives of this list and
http://www.icanworkthisthing.com and you'll find a wealth of information.
There are other places too like: http://www.screenlessswitchers.com which
has podcasts discussing moving from windows to the Mac which will be
helpful. The new getting started manual will be helpful as well but the
best thing is exploration.
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!
