Hi Matthew
Well i tend to agree, but you forgot about true windows 7 support, which
many of us may switch to after the 22. of october this year.
also a little nice thing about faster reading of web pages found it's way in
to the program, and honestly this is also very much wanted.
and I don't agree with you on the word indexing thing, which I can see much
use for.
Then you are on a well known home page this might be a cool thing. Actually
by listening to this podcast I learnt something new. It's the skimming
reading function, which I didn't know existed.
Let's hope though that they've also included some or even just afew minor
fixes and enhancements.
The big problem with FS is that they're creating their own parallel world
rather then to keep focussing on makeing existing software usable to us
users.
Brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew_2010" <[email protected]>
To: "PC Audio Discussion List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 11:49 AM
Subject: Jaws 11 Beta Info
Hi all,
Just thought I'd inform listers that there's a podcast out there on new
Jaws 11 features. There really isn't anything interesting just the same
old FS fluff and no real substance. They are introducing something they
are calling "research it," which essentially acts like a hotkey to launch
Wiktionary and other data gathering tools. You press a hotkey, type in a
word you're interested in defining, and you hit enter. Jaws will place the
definitions in a buffer and you can arrow down and read the definitions.
What a waste of an SMA as this is essentially what I'm doing right now
when I use Word web and control tab to wikipedia and so forth. This is
also what I do when I use WinKey to launch wikipedia to find various
terms. This is also what I do by simply creating a hot key to a folder
containing all my favorite WebPages for the day such as Ny Times, weather,
and news. This is also what anyone can do by running a Google search. This
thing sounds like it will go the way of the jaws speech and sounds manager
that was suppose to change our lives forever. Now that I think of it, is
it just me or is FS pretty much run out of ideas and repackaging existing
ways of doing things and selling it to us as "new features?" This is all
very disappointing.
Oh yeah, they also released something called Word index. It takes a page
and groups many similar words into a column by which one can down arrow
through the list and verify that the word jaws has come up 20 times, the
workd dog has come up 12 times, and the word junk has come up 1000 times.
I don't even know what to say about this. Apparently this feature in this
SMA hit is going to help us determine that we've used the same word
repeatedly and we should go back and edit our document to use the word a
few less times.
There's some other feature that will be of interest to about, hmm, 2 or 3
of us. It something about sound coming through multiple sound cards and so
forth--didn't really care, but it might be of some interest to PC audio
listers. The relevant info can be found at 37:34 on the podcast.
The other earth shattering new feature is that during a jaws tandem
session the person accessing another's computer remotely will be able to
hear the other's person's sound effects. No comment necessary.
I didn't really care to listen any further, but check out the podcast for
yourselves as it might be of some interest to you.
HTH
Matthew
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