Hi Nicolai, I will try and explain the thum bkey issues I am having. Thumbkey 1 and 5 should go to the next line to the right (if that makes sense) and do this endlessley but at least the 5th one does not, after a few lines it just stops and i cant read on and I have to press the right arrow on the keyboard once for it to be able to continue. I think thumbkey 2 and 4 should go one line down (one complete line, my braille display is only 40 keys) but I dont think it does this, at least not when i read documents in pages. Btw, where do you broadcast? Greetings, Anouk, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicolai Svendsen" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 11:05 AM Subject: Re: my 2 months with a mac
> > Hi again folks, > > Yes, broadcasts can certainly be done. Nicecast from Rogue Amoeba > http://rogueamoeba.com > works extremely well. The only issue seems to be the effects scroll > area, but I hope they'll be working on that. Otherwise, it works > ridiculously well, in fact, and I have nothing to complain about. > > I'm not exactly sure about your Thumbkey thing. I don't get it. If you > can elaborate? Maybe I'm being dense here. :). > > As for VLC, I've never actually tried it out, and I personally love > using Safari for web browsing. For me, everything is much faster. > > Also, which braille display are you using? > > Regards, > Nic > Skype: Kvalme > MSN Messenger: [email protected] > AIM: cincinster > yahoo Messenger: cin368 > Facebook Profile > My Twitter > > On Oct 21, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Tony Bernedal wrote: > >> >> 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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