Hi Anne. Just to tell you that I can listen to the BBC using my Mac Book with no problems. I don't listen to the TV but when I listen to the radio live such as radio 3 or radio 4 or Five live, I have no problems. I simply press enter on the listen live links and they all play.
Kawal. On 1 Sep 2010, at 21:50, anne Robertson wrote: > Hello Matthew, > > On 1 Sep 2010, at 18:30, Matthew Johnson wrote: >> >> I do however have a few questions: >> 1: I have a focus 40 blue, does this work, including the bluetooth part of >> it? can I enter text using it, and does it work in multiple languages, since >> I read french, German, and Spanish braille on a regular basis. > This particular Braille display was recently added to the supported devices, > including using BlueTooth. > > Multilingual Braille can be downloaded from: > www.cecimac.org > > The website is mainly in French but it has an English language page. > > Once multilingual Braille is installed, you can choose your language in > VoiceOver Utility under Braille. Contracted Braille is not available for > languages other than American English. > > A new version of Multilingual Braille is under preparation at the moment and > should be release within the next two weeks. > > Braille input also works with Multilingual Braille. > >> 2. Accessible language dictionary program? Does that exist and how complete >> is it? > Many people use Ultralingua. I can't comment on it as I don't use it. I just > use Word Reference online or consult a massive print dictionary with my > Optacon. > >> 3: reading pdf files: does that compare well to the adobe pdf in windows? I >> have to read a lot of textbooks like this and it needs to work, including >> copying parts of a pdf out to text edit for editing things. > Preview works fine for reading PDF files, but if you don't like it, there's > another application out there called Skim. > >> 4. how well do footnotes and research-necessary things work on the mac? I do >> research papers and cannot afford any problems in this area. > Pages, from the iWork09 suite, works very well. It can open and save to Word > documents. Its native format is .pages. I use it all the time in my work as a > translator. > >> 5. just in case any of you know...does the BBC IPlayer have a workaround? >> its all flash! >> > The BBC seems to have done something horrible to its iPlayer recently. I used > to be able to Listen Again to radio programmes but I'm not having much > success with it at the moment. Television programmes don't work at all. You > may have to have a Windows partition on your Mac just for that. > > I hope that has been helpful. > > Cheers, > > Anne > > A Brit living in France. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > ____ Kawal Gucukoglu (E-mail/MSN): [email protected] (Skype ID): kawalgucukoglu (Mobile/text): +447905618396 +447576240421 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
