Hi again. Wow. Echomac, never heard of it but when I google it I found http://echomac.sourceforge.net/ I'll try it when I'm back home from work. Anouk, I had a fire dtv reciever and used it with dvb viewer on windows and Eye tv have driver for it so I gave it a try but it doesn't work as I want at the moment. I have readiris on the disk and I'm going to try it out and see how it works with swedish language and so on. I have heard of some broadcast tools for mac but at the moment I haven't looked in to it. I don't broadcast at the moment so it doesn't have so high priority. I still have my studio pc sitting under the desk so I can use stationplaylist and all the broadcast stuff if I want to. Regards Tony
2009/10/21, a radix <[email protected]>: > > Hey Tony, Nice to hear from you! (the world is a small place) Funny we > started our mac journey at the seem time. I am curious, can you broadcast on > the mac? I guess otsjuke wont work and obiously shoutcast wont either. I was > thinking of running windows with vmware but now I am just thinking to ask my > brother to help me install windows 7 via bootcamp instead. Has anyone got > experience with installing windows via bootcamp as dual boot? Is it > diffucult? I presume the drivers for windows 7 for the macbook pro will be > available from apple? I still want to try vuescan an dreadiris, in fact i > have the programs on my computer bu tI want to wait till hp releases the > drivers for my scanner that are native to sl, also I hope by that time abbyy > will have released a demo of finereader for the mac that is native to sl. I > am just concerned that either adf wont work, scanning iwll be very slow or > dutch character recognition wont be as good as omnipage. > I am surprised that you also have the thumbkey problem, i thought it was > something stupid on my part, corrupt install whatever. I guess we will both > have to mail apple accessibility about this. > So, you are using a tv tuner with your mac? This is the next thing i want to > taccle since now I have an analog tv standing on my desk and it is taking up > space that I could use otherwise. I did have digital tv in the past bu tI > had a lot of trouble with it and in the end just went back to analog. There > are not that many tuners for the mac I think (analog or otherwise) and I > guess even less that are available in Europe. Which do you use? I guess as > long as I get one with a remote things will be ok (if it indeed can find the > channels). > I too LOVE the sleep features of the mac, i never turn mine off, just close > the lid and thats it. > Greetings, Anouk, > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tony Bernedal" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:16 AM > Subject: Re: my 2 months with a mac > > >> >> Hi Anouk. >> I have also used my mac for around 3 months now, and like you I still >> use windows for a couple of things. I trying to get the scanning and >> ocr to work on the mac but for now windows and omnipage have to do the >> jobb. I had a license for windows xp lying on the shelf from a no >> longer working laptop and I installed xp with vmware as a virtual >> machine and doing my scanning there and it works good but the virtual >> machine is very slow. I also use windows for Echolink, wich is a >> ham-radio software wich don't exist on the mac. Also the software to >> setup and program my hamradio stations is only windows programs. I'm >> very happy mac user now and after some updates to snow leopard my >> problems with it is gone. >> I hope the issue with the thumbkey on your display can be solved. I >> have same issue with alva satelite. >> I also have a battle with EyeTV software wich for some odd reason >> doesn't find my tv channels on the cable network. And it is also very >> tricky to use with VO. I use VLC for webradio and movies and it works >> great (vlc version 1.x doesn't work under windows and linux at all >> with screenreader, only on mac, great!). >> And I also like the speed, starting my windows pc here at works take >> forever and the mac is at the desktop in almost 0 time. And, the sleep >> works well too. >> So I'm happy with my mac system. >> Good luck with your mac! >> Regards Tony >> >> 2009/10/21, a radix <[email protected]>: >>> Hello, I have been using my mac for about 2 months now especially at >>> school >>> although at home I still often use my pc and I will explain below why. In >>> general my experiences with the mac have been very positive especially >>> after >>> installing snow leopard. I can use skype and msn just as well as on my >>> pc. >>> And after I dumped itunes and started using vlc instead watching movies >>> and >>> listening to music became a breeze. I recently bought apples office suite >>> because I prefer that over using textedit or the free text editors/office >>> suits that are available. I am also intending to go and use garage band >>> in >>> the future if I can get that working with my yamaha keyboard. I like the >>> built-in speakers and sound quality alhtough listening through its sound >>> output with my own in ear monitors is nothing special. I still find using >>> the internet on the mac a bit mor ework then i did while using my pc and >>> it >>> goes a bit slower also when reading docucments i notice that I cannot >>> endlessly use the right thumb key on my braille display to continue >>> reading, >>> eventually i have to press the right arrow on my normal keyboard if I >>> want >>> to read onm. This does become irritating after a while if you need to >>> read >>> long documents. >>> At home I still mostly use my windows pc although i now have gotten mail >>> working on the mac as well because 1. I use omnipage pro 16 under windows >>> >>> to >>> scan my books for school, while I know that there are some scanning >>> solutions for the mac that i will probbably try once the hp drivers for >>> sl >>> have been released I just dont know if they will be as good and easy as >>> using omnipage pro 16 and am a bit hesistant to try it because of that (I >>> really really hope that a full version of finereader will eventually be >>> released for the mac since I have heard it can rival omnipage pro). >>> Secondly there is filesharing, i will be brief. Ftp does work on the mac >>> with transmit which I rather like although I have not registered it yet, >>> questions i asked its support team went unanswered. Usenet also works but >>> udner windows I preferred to use other programs which are not available >>> on >>> the mac. >>> The third point is playing games which I do a lot on the pec especially >>> interactive fiction and muds. There is an interpreter for interactive >>> fiction called zoom which I tried and although I can open games with it >>> saved games were a problem for me since I could not open a saved game >>> file >>> (made in frotz). >>> For muds the situation on the mac is not so good, I play them all the >>> time >>> on windows but there is only one mudclient that I know of which works >>> under >>> sl and which is still being developed, jamochamud which works under java. >>> >>> It >>> is not too accessible at the moment but the programmer has promised to >>> look >>> at it, still it does not offer all the features even then that I am used >>> to >>> on a windows client. >>> As soon as windows 7 becomes officially available I am planning to >>> install >>> it on my mac (probbably via bootcamp) so that I at least can use my mac >>> all >>> the time even if I need to use windows, hopefully for the scanning and >>> downloading tasks I will in the future be able to use the mac and I have >>> hopes for muds as well but for now at least my mac is mostly used at >>> school >>> and in the library. >>> Greetings, Anouk, >>> > >>> >> >> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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