Hello all. We are working hard to bring you the next firmware for the Voice Sense, Braille Sense Plus, and Braille Sense (Original) notetakers. Although we are not yet saying when the firmware will be released, I can say that it's getting very close. I had meant to send this teaser this past Monday, but things have been very busy with testing the SenseNav 2010 update and the Voice Sense Qwerty notetaker. In addition, the teaser below is something which you have access to right now, today, and you don't even have to wait for the new firmware. So here it is.
Teaser 5: Using the NFB Newsline in your pocket software with the Sense notetakers. First off, if you already have a BookSense, all you need to do is insert your SD card into the Sense notetaker and then tell the DAISY player to load your publications which were copied over from the Pocket software. However if you don't have a BookSense, you can still do this by following the steps below. The Pocket software can unofficially be used with the Sense notetakers to automatically transfer your publications from your favorites list into your Voice Sense or Braille Sense. The trick is to make the Pocket software think you have a BookSense. Because this is a hack and unofficially supported, you probably won't be able to get help from NFBNewsline if the Pocket software doesn't transfer things correctly. So how is this done? There are a few things you need to do to make this happen. 1. Open the file manager in your Voice Sense or Braille Sense and press Enter on flashdisk. 2. Create 2 new folders called Documents and DAISY. 3. Arrow to the DAISY folder and press Enter. 4. Create a subfolder inside the DAISY folder and call it NFBNewsline. 5. Close the file manager and connect your Sense notetaker to the PC via the USB cable. Now your Voice Sense or Braille Sense will look like a BookSense when the Pocket software searches for devices. Simply go to the NFB Newsline Online site located at www.nfbnewslineonline.org and login with your user code and pin. Download and install the Pocket software and add some publications to your favorites. Our web site www.gwmicro.com has an audio demonstration about how to briefly use this site and software to transfer content to a BookSense, but the same will work as long as you have the folder names above. Once you have run the software and transferred content to it, it will be located inside the NFBNewsline folder. Open the DAISY player and when it asks you for a book or DAISY file to open, press Backspace until you reach the flashdisk. Press enter on it and arrow to DAISY. Press Enter on that and you will see NFBNewsline. Press Enter on that and now you will see the list of publications the Pocket software copied to your Sense notetaker. Choose one with the arrow keys and press Space followed by Enter to open it and begin reading in the DAISY player. While reading the publication, press dots-2-3 or dots-5-6 to choose a movement level. Press dot-2 or dot-5 to move backward or forward by that level. Please note that these hot keys are changing in the new 5.5 firmware when it is released. As mentioned before, this works now without you having to wait for version 5.5 of the new firmware to come out. Happy reading. Stay tuned for additional teasers in the next several days. Many thanks. -- Raul A. Gallegos GW Micro Technical Support And Product Specialist Voice 260-489-3671, Fax 260-489-2608 Web http://www.gwmicro.com If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, visit: http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv
