No no you don't need a partition with Fusion that is the advantage of
Fusion over say Apple BootCamp. You may need sighted help getting
Windows installed, in particular reading the WindowsXP install code
and activating it in windows if you are not going to run a screen
reader in Windows which is not really needed if all you going to do is
run Kurzweil 1000
VoiceOver can not read the Windows section so you might want to get
some help. If you live near an Apple store have the Genius Bar people
there help. You will need a legal copy of VMWare Fusion, WindowsXP and
of course Kurzweil 1000. They can call me if they need any help.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
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On Mar 22, 2008, at 12:28 PM, Debra Gardner wrote:
Humm, Greg, that sounds a bit technical, not the Fusion part, but
running Windows XP on the Mac. I guess that would involve
partitioning your hard drive? Would you have to have someone
sighted do that and install Windows XP or could Voiceover bleed
over and let you do the whole thing yourself?
Debra
----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Kearney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 11:00 AM
Subject: Re: Safari on my PC
Well I have an even older copy, version 8 and it works fine here
is what I did.
Got VMware Fusion running. Make sure you run the update to Fusion
and have the latest version. early versions had some issues with
sound.
With Fusion running, I run Windows XP Professional, install
Kurzweil 1000 as you would in a normal windows computer. Set up
Kurzweil 1000 to startup when Window's starts.
At this point you have two choices you can leave Fusion as it is
and simply keep the Fusion icon in the dock. each time you start
fusion you will start Kurzweil 1000 as well. Or you can start
Fusion and Kurzweil 1000 and then enter Unity mode in Fusion. This
will break out the Kurzweil 1000 window into it's own window on
the Mac and make a Kurzweil 1000 in the dock. Go to the dock and
choose to keep the Kurzweil 1000 icon on the dock. Now you have a
Kurzweil 1000 icon on you doc and you can launch Kurzweil 1000
from the dock just like any other application.
A few other things. I have found it best to set Fusion to shutdown
the Windows computer as opposed to the default setting of
suspending the computer. Suspension seems to give scanners trouble.
Also you will want to turn off VoiceOver (command-F) when using
Kurzweil 1000 as you will need to have access to your numeric
keypad.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mar 22, 2008, at 5:42 AM, Debra Gardner wrote:
Really? Greg, do you use the latest version or does it matter?
I have version 10 and haven't upgraded. What is Fusion? This
is sounding better and better.
Debra
----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Kearney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac
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Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2008 2:17 AM
Subject: Re: Safari on my PC
It is possible to use Kurzweil 1000 on a Mac. I do it all the
time using Fusion even have an icon on my dock for it.
Greg Kearney
535 S. Jackson St.
Casper, Wyoming 82601
307-224-4022
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mar 22, 2008, at 1:09 AM, Debra Gardner wrote:
Hi David and everyone else:
I think I could do most things on a Mac that I need to do so
far, especially referring to such a busy list and you guys are,
but I'm wondering is Text Editor can convert files to Microsoft
word and if there is a good scanning program out there that
would let me scan and read my printed material. I have
Kurzweil 1000 and use it a lot. Those are my only "problems"
right now. I just want to surf the net, read and answer my
mail, write up my documents and save them in the format that
is required, and read my electronic books. Oh, and I might
like to burn the occasional CD.
Debra
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Poehlman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of
Mac OS Xby theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 9:51 AM
Subject: Re: Safari on my PC
sadly, at least with jaws, the only thing you can access with
safari is the
menus.
Of what problems do you speak?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Debra Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of
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theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 10:47 AM
Subject: Safari on my PC
Hi guys:
I still don't have a Mac, mostly because I can't afford it, but
mainly
because there still seems to be problems. Because I need
Quicktime to hear
some things on the internet, I've been allowing Apple to
download stuff onto
my Windows XP Pc. Of course I can't use Quicktime, but if
something needs
it, it's there. Just a while ago, it downloaded Safari. Out
of curiosity,
I wondered if any of it was accessible to any of the
screenreaders I have to
hand-Window-eyes, NVDA, or System Access to go. Interestingly
enough, I can
read the menus and even go to a web page, but it won't read
the page. I'm
assuming that sighted ones can use Safari on a Windows PC?
Humm, I wish I
could get Apple to donate some Mac Minis with Leopard to po'
folks like me!
(smile) My version of Window-eyes is 4.5 which shows you how
far behind I
am. Thank goodness for the free ones that are up-to-date.
I've got to
hunt down the "dualing" screenreaders.
Debra
P.s. For those of you that like to do these things, there's
an
alternative for Microsoft Word called Atlantis Nova. It's
the first word
processor I've ever downloaded that makes noise! They are
kind of cute,
but you'd probably want to turn them off after a while.
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