[Blind-Computing] Test - Please, Don't Bother To Open
Seems I'm getting dual copies of every e-mail sent to the Blind Computing list; I'm sending this message to the list so I can determine if I accidentally subscribed two different personal e-mail addresses or if the list is sending off two copies. Holland's Boy, Bill - “Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option” - gabrielita For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] PDF Documents I don't know how to Access
It's entirely possible that the Table of Contents was entered into the PDF as text input and the main body of the manual was inserted as a photocopied image -- in which case you'll need to pass the file through some Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software such as FineReader, ReadIris or the utilities provided by OpenBook or Kurzweil. Holland's Person, Bill - The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook. - Andy Rooney - Personal Note: Thought this an appropriate quote after the Holiday splurging! -Original Message- From: Sharon Hooley Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 6:02 PM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: [Blind-Computing] PDF Documents I don't know how to Access Hi! I'm trying to read a user manual that is a PDF document. I can read the table of contents, but so far I can't seem to read exactly the instructions I want. Is there a way I don't know about, or are there just some documents that are not accessible? Thanks! Sharon For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Computer Components
What I think Trish is asking for is how to go into the Device Manager and discover exactly what hardware components are configured for her system. For example, I can do this by: 1) Opening the SETTINGS item on the main menu and selecting Control Panel 2) Selecting Device Manager (or selecting System and then finding the Device Manager tab) 3) Once the Device Manager is open, browsing (and opening closed elements - the component list. One needs to be careful not to modify any of those settings once in Device Manager unless they are certain of what they are doing, but this isn't really very risky since cancelling out is fairly obvious. This procedure gives one an exhaustive list of exactly what his/her PC is comprised of concerning hardware. Does not Windows 7 provide a Device Manager interface; perhaps it isn't called that in that OS? Holland's Person, Bill - The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook. - Andy Rooney - Personal Note: Thought this an appropriate quote after the Holiday splurging! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Looking for a Specialized Printer
Can anyone on this list suggest a specialized printer? What I'm looking for is a small, compact printer that would feature a sort of mini tray for source paper; paper specifically the size of a typical check. I realize that the QuickBooks type of checks are available, but I personally dislike using those and would prefer to be able to print out checks from a regular checkbook. I'd sure appreciate if anybody could steer me toward such a small,, special-purpose printer. Thanks! To You Yours: A Very Merry Christmas Happy New Year !!! Holland Bill - `There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,' returned the nephew. `Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!' - A Christmas Carol, 1843, Charles Dickens For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Adding a second sound card
Several years ago, I purchased a Turtle Beach USB sound device (to call it a card hardly seems appropriate -- it looks much like a flash memory stick) and have no regrets. It does have some limitations such as not producing a broad range of volume and tone differentiation such as one might configure for upper case voicing and spelling mode differentiation, but if your intention is to use this secondary sound card for your JAWS output it is quite adequate and not very expensive. This will give you the ability to control the normal sound differently from your JAWS speech output and I do believe you will be quite satisfied. Also, this was something I was experimenting with when my beloved died; my intention was to deploy the Turtle Beach USB Sound device for JAWS with a set of earphones and install Naturally Speaking as a voice recognition using the native sound card to handle that application. My thought was that the two separate sound devices would, as a result of being deployed for the two differing purposes, allow JAWS and Naturally Speaking to play nice with each other. I realize this last thought is somewhat off the topic of this thread, but I thought it may be a useful thought to throw out there since I never pursued any further after Carol's death. To You Yours: A Very Merry Christmas Happy New Year !!! Holland Bill - `There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,' returned the nephew. `Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!' - A Christmas Carol, 1843, Charles Dickens -Original Message- From: Shari Sent: Monday, December 26, 2011 1:19 PM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: [Blind-Computing] Adding a second sound card Hi All, I'm using Jaws 13 and Vista on a laptop. Right now I have only the internal sound card. I want to add an external sound card. I went to Amazon, thinking this would just be a simple purchase, but of course, there are tons of choices, and I have no clue what I need. I was initially looking for a USB external card. Then I also saw there are cards that connect to speakers, and then several items called adaptors showed up in the results list, too. Actually, there were only a couple options for USB sound cards amidst the long list, and customer ratings weren't all that good. I don't need anything with lots of bells and whistles, and I don't care where I order from. I just went to Amazon because I thought I could make a quick purchase and be done. I simply want to be able to have Jaws coming from a sound card separate from music or sporting events so I can control the volumes separately. Any pointers on how to make a selection would be a big help. Thank you, Shari For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Editing a Contact in Windows Live Mail 2011
Windows Live Mail seems to be a very different animal. I've encountered what I thought is exactly what you're running into except that I started using Select All in any given field, cutting it out, then saving (pasting) the contents of the save to a notepad session. Then, going into Notepad and pasting that data to that application, I was able to edit the particular field at will -- but you need to leave your cursor in the Windows Live Mail contact edit at the location where you got the editted info in the first place. Then, from Notepad, make desired changes, Select the new value and cut it from the Notepad session and returning to Windows Live Mail to paste the new information in that field. The other thing you mentioned is you're having difficulty getting focus on the correct contact; seems you are there but when you go to select edit another contact comes up, right? Well, just keep bankging on the SPACE Bar, and repeatedldy route the JAWS Key to the PC Key and visa versa. I don't know which try works, but it seems to get true focus on the correct contact. Holland's Person, Bill - Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled. - source unknown For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Character code for check mark in MS Word 2007
This probably isn't quite what you're looking for, but a Check list can be created in older versions of Word by selecting the FORMAT drop down menu and select the item that refers to Bullets and Numbering - exactly wording escapes me just now. At any rate, Check Mark is one of the list demarcation options. Holland's Person, Bill - Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled. - source unknown, but wish I had originated it. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] moving files onto an external hard drive
First, when you formatted the external drive did you not have an option as to whether to use FAT or NTFS? Second, it really doesn't matter if the external drive is NTFS if you use a Copy and Paste procedure to get files from your existing drive on to the external drive. The software on the PC will simply call writes to the external drive and the drive itself should take care of any house keeping issues to convert said folders/files to NTFS. Now, if your Windows 98 PC cannot recognize the external drive, you may need to reformat the external drive as a FAT file system. Or if you could link your old PC to your new PC and run the backup from you new PC with the old PC being networked to the newer one, that should likewise resolve your dilemma. Holland's Person, Bill - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] moving files onto an external hard drive
Jason, Anything you've copied by any means to the external hard drive will be wiped out if you reformat it. One question is this, can your Windows 98 PC recognize the presence of the external drive at all? Holland's Person, Bill - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Formatting Flash Drives
This is a perplexing situation. You're right in that there should be n o difference whatsoever between the space available on 3 identical drives. -Original Message- From: Mike Barbara In Arcadia Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 5:40 PM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Formatting Flash Drives Hi Bill, I have scanned all the drives, all 3 are okay. Any other ways that I can get the 1 drive to have the same available space as the other 2? Thank you very much for your help. Take care. Mike - Original Message - From: Bill Gallik To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, June 10, 2011 2:17 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Formatting Flash Drives First thing I'd recommend is that you run a scan on all three just to make sure there aren't some bad areas on the drive with the lesser available space. Holland's Person, Bill - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Holland's Person, Bill - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Formatting Flash Drives
First thing I'd recommend is that you run a scan on all three just to make sure there aren't some bad areas on the drive with the lesser available space. Holland's Person, Bill - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Internet explorer?
I have Vista and JAWS 10; I suppose that's why I was having trouble with IE 9. Holland's Person, Bill - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Internet explorer?
Trouble is, when I open the Control Panel and select Programs, there is no entry in the list for Internet Explorer of any version! How do I uninstall IE 9 without that? Holland's Person, Bill - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] windows live mail
Pardon me, but I'm not at all certain I understand your question. I presume that you are asking how to configure JAWS to identify unread messages in Windows Live Mail, here's how: In the main screen, set JAWS to SayAll. Then activate the JAWS cursor. Position the JAWS cursor to a preview line that you know for certain to be a new message -- a message you might send to yourself works. Then position the JAWS cursor over the obvious graphic that preceeds the preview line and using the JAWS Graphics Labeler, identify New Message to be the text associated with that graphic. Set the Graphics Labeler for application and save it. You should now hear New Message for each new message. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; -- Watson, on the death of Selden in The Hound of the Baskervilles For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Backing Out of IE 9 Back to IE8
There was a link sent on this list with directions as how to best go back from IE9 to IE 8, could somebody please send them again? Thanks! Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; -- Watson, on the death of Selden in The Hound of the Baskervilles For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] saving an attachment in windows live mail?
It's a lot simpler than that. Yes, you do need to open the e-mail message that has the attachment you want to save. Then just enter ALT-Key+F to open the default menu and select the Save item. That will open a sub-menu where the second choice is to save attachments, select that and follow the prompts in the resulting dialog box. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - US Humorist, Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Another dating question
Cliff asks: Other than typing the information: Is there a way to insert the present into a non-excel document? A word document, to be precise. Cliff, I'm going to presume that you meant the present date; use the CNTRL+, key sequence for the date - if it's the current time then type CNTRL+. And for future reference on how to do something with the keyboard, you can always open the keyboard manager for the specific application and look for the specific task you want to perform. If there's a key sequence to do it, it will be listed in the keyboard manager. Give a man a fish and you've fed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you've fed him for a lifetime. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - US Humorist, Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Another dating question
Cliff, My sincerest apologies, the key sequences I offered were incorrect. The correct key sequences (for Excel) are: current date - CONTROL+; current Time - CONTROL+SHIFT+; Lest those lines are confusing, the basic sequence is to use the control key along with the semi-colon key, that will insert the current date; if you include the SHIFT key in the key sequence the current time will be inserted. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - US Humorist, Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Another dating question
Oh! I thought it was an Excel question so I gave you the key sequences for that app. Another person offered the keys for Word. -Original Message- From: Cliff Smales Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 4:40 PM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Another dating question I forgot to mention: I'm using word 2003. Cliff Smales - Original Message - From: Cliff Smales csma...@att.net To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2011 2:07 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] Another dating question Other than typing the information: Is there a way to insert the present into a non-excel document? A word document, to be precise. Cliff Smales For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - US Humorist, Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] editing a group in WLM
What I'm going to offer here is using WLM on Vista, but I should think it would be the same on Windows 7. If I want to manipulate a group (or category as WLM refers to it) I do the following: 1) enter the address book -- usually by hitting CONTROL+3 from the main WLM screen) 2) usually starting on the list of addressees, I tab backwards (SHIFT+TAB) and find myself in the category list 3) arrow up/down until I've selected the category (group) I want to manipulate 4) move back to the addressee list (TAB) 5) arrow up/down until I select the member I want to delete 6) hit the right mouse key (key above the 9 key on a standard numeric keypad) 7) this should open a menu with various options as what to do with the selected addressee - remove from category is one option NOTE: I often experience problems getting the correct addressee to be recognized so I hit the JAWS to PC key and then the PC to JAWS keys and initially select Edit so I'm certain I'm working with the correct addressee. Also, if you select that addressee from the general address list (and not the category list) you'll wind up deleting entirely from your address book. HTH Holland's Person, Bill - Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. - US Humorist, Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com
Re: [Blind-Computing] editing a group in WLM
Lenny writes: everything is ok until I reach step 6. When I right click I only have the option to send an email. Oh, Oh, should've known it wouldn't be that simple! Sorry Lenny, can't figure what's happening to your WLM menus. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - A WOMAN'S MIND IS CLEANER THAN A MAN'S BECAUSE SHE CHANGES IT MORE OFTEN! - Source Unknown For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com
[Blind-Computing] Is Crystal Reports Accessible
I'm interested in applying for a couple of IT jobs and one of the main requirements is working with Crystal Reports. Can anybody advise me whether or not Crystal Reports is accessible with JAWS? If not JAWS, is Crystal Reports accessible with another screen reader? Holland's Person, Bill ☺ - It’s a shame what the 21st Century Republican Party has done to democracy - they're wrong-headed, not right-wing. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com
Re: [Blind-Computing] Is there a gadget ...
Niamh (apparently) asks: Is there a gadget which would allow me to connect two computers to one monitor? my problem is I am having to run a laptop and destop at work.i don't want to ask my employer for help,but increasingly i need sighted help and a simple switch would help. You can purchase a device referred to as a KVM Switch (Keyboard, Video, Mouse), this will permit a pair of PCs (desktop and/or laptop) to use a single Keyboard, Video (monitor) and Mouse. Some of these KVM switches also support a keystroke that will execute the switch over from one PC to the other. Bear in mind that this will not allow for activities on both PCs to be visible on the Video screen simultaneously, only one PC at a time can interact with the Keyboard, Video and Mouse via this configuration. I suppose, if it were necessary to be able to watch what was going on both PCs the video connection could be ignored on this gadget and regular channels could be used to utilize the monitors per each PC. And I can't say whether or not the video output on the laptop might not still appear on the laptop's screen in addition to the monitor connected via the KVM (when I used my KVM Switch, it was connected to a pair of desktops). Holland's Person, Bill - The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook. - Andy Rooney For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com
Re: [Blind-Computing] question about Contacts in Windows Mail
Does this happen to Explorer with any other folders? Sounds like your CONTACTS folder may be corrupted. Holland's Person, Bill - The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook. - Andy Rooney For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com
Re: [Blind-Computing] question about Contacts in Windows Mail
Try going to My Files, then when you open that locate the Contacts folder and open that. Now you should be able to see a series of *.CONTACT files, highlight the specific contact you want to modify and open the FILE (ALT+F) menu and select OPEN or NEW, depending on whether you want to edit an existing contact or create a new contact you should find yourself in the Name E-Mail tab. Note that if you select NEW you need to select the Contact option. HTH -Original Message- From: Wayne Scott Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 1:35 PM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: [Blind-Computing] question about Contacts in Windows Mail I am using Jaws 11 and Vista. Every time I open my contacts folder in Windows Mail, it opens, but I can't do anything in it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Wayne Scott A merry heart does good like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com Holland's Person, Bill - The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook. - Andy Rooney For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com
Re: [Blind-Computing] question about Contacts in Windows Mail
Don't you have a My Files icon on your desktop? -Original Message- From: Wayne Scott Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 4:17 PM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] question about Contacts in Windows Mail Where do I find the Files? I even tried to go in through my folder. It still doesn't respond. A merry heart does good like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones. - Original Message - From: Bill Gallik billgal...@centurytel.net To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 12:57 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] question about Contacts in Windows Mail Try going to My Files, then when you open that locate the Contacts folder and open that. Now you should be able to see a series of *.CONTACT files, highlight the specific contact you want to modify and open the FILE (ALT+F) menu and select OPEN or NEW, depending on whether you want to edit an existing contact or create a new contact you should find yourself in the Name E-Mail tab. Note that if you select NEW you need to select the Contact option. HTH -Original Message- From: Wayne Scott Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 1:35 PM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: [Blind-Computing] question about Contacts in Windows Mail I am using Jaws 11 and Vista. Every time I open my contacts folder in Windows Mail, it opens, but I can't do anything in it. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Wayne Scott A merry heart does good like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com Holland's Person, Bill - The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook. - Andy Rooney For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com Holland's Person, Bill - The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook. - Andy Rooney For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com
Re: [Blind-Computing] excel question
Hi Cliff, I can't answer your question directly but why not try opening Excel and then opening the JAWS keyboard Manager and let that utility tip you off. -Original Message- From: Cliff Smales Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2011 7:30 AM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: [Blind-Computing] excel'question I need to add up to ten fresh worksheets to my workbook. I'm using excel 2003. The commands I've been given, unless I'm doing something wrong, don't produce the new worksheets. Using 2003, how do I accomplish this needed addition? Cliff Smales For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com
Re: [Blind-Computing] Looking to purchase a Mr. Coffee Junior coffeemaker
You might tried: http://www.MrCoffee.com The upper case M and C in MrCoffee aren't required, you can use the lower case letters but I thought it would sound better if you're using a screen reader. HTH Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him. - Sir Arthur Konan Doyle; -- Watson, on the death of Selden in The Hound of the Baskervilles For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] internet explorer not letting me download Microsoft security essentials
Pardon me, but the subject line for this thread was driving me nuts. I had to correct it. Thank You Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - A WOMAN'S MIND IS CLEANER THAN A MAN'S BECAUSE SHE CHANGES IT MORE OFTEN! - Source Unknown For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Moving Back To Windows Mail
David wrote: uninstall the windows live 2011, and go back to the earlier version. if you wish to do this, I could send you the earlier version since I kept the executable. I don't think you can find the earlier version out their on the net. Response: I have that executable from the JAWS programs page. also, if you uninstall WLM2011, and try going back to your windows mail, perhaps you just need to re-do your email account settings. I don't understand why, just because you installed WLM, your windows mail would stop working, since you should have receive a message, windows live is not your default email client, do you want to make it your default client? Yes? no? obviously you would choose no? Response: Windows Mail (not Windows Live Mail) got corrupted and would not respond when sending or receiving messages. When the OS asked me if I wanted to do a repair I chose to attempt a repair. That's when I was directed to Microsoft's software page and linked to Windows Live Mail. Before I even realized it, WLM was being installed and since Windows Mail wasn't working I opted to try WLM. But, NO, I would not choose WLM as my default e-mail client if I had a functioning version of Windows Mail on the PC. And, I was not able to change settings in Windows Mail neither -- I do believe a DLL or maybe two were corrupted and so Windows Mail isn't able to interact with those particular components of e-mail services. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - A WOMAN'S MIND IS CLEANER THAN A MAN'S BECAUSE SHE CHANGES IT MORE OFTEN! - Source Unknown For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Moving Back To Windows Mail
Dave asks: you said you had problems with your windows mail, what were the problems? There are two issues here: 1) My original Windows Mail component (I presume) lost a key DLL because it couldn't interact with my account(s) information. When I'd try to send an e-mail it would just hang forever (or so it seemed) and would eventually tell me (the OS I presume here) that the program was going to respond. It then asked me if (the OS again I presume) if I wanted to repair the problem. To which, naturally, I eventually answered in the affirmative. Then . . . 2) This no good, damn excuse of an e-mail client (Windows Live Mail) was downloaded and installed on my PC in lieu of Windows Mail (Outlook Express). Then if that wasn't bad enough, I got an innocent enough message one bright morning asking me if I wanted to upgrade my Windows Live Mail; to which, naturally, I answered in the affirmative. Now I have this absolutely crazy interface, can't get to my contacts data, can't do all sorts of things that I used to be able to do like forwarding an e-mail message as an attachment (unless I save the targeted message as a file and attach it to a new message that way). I CANNOT STAND this Windows Live Mail!!! Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - A WOMAN'S MIND IS CLEANER THAN A MAN'S BECAUSE SHE CHANGES IT MORE OFTEN! - Source Unknown For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Moving Back To Windows Mail
I haven't tried uninstalling Windows Live Mail. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - A WOMAN'S MIND IS CLEANER THAN A MAN'S BECAUSE SHE CHANGES IT MORE OFTEN! - Source Unknown For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Moving Back To Windows Mail
All, Several months back I was forced into Windows Live mail and simply can't stand the interface. Can anybody advise me as how best to reinstall Windows Mail (Outlook Express)? I had a problem with Windows Mail and when I went to the Repair It feature I wound up with this lousy Windows Live Mail. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - A WOMAN'S MIND IS CLEANER THAN A MAN'S BECAUSE SHE CHANGES IT MORE OFTEN! - Source Unknown For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Windows Live Mail Update Is Impossible
OK Graham, something is really amiss here because I'm finding it difficult to: 1) rearrange the columns in the header page 2) send replies (or any compose any e-mail) Which version of JAWS are you using? Perhaps that's the difference. I find no appreciable relief when switching to JAWS 11 over JAWS 10. -Original Message- From: Graham Smith Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 10:31 AM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Windows Live Mail Update Is Impossible Sorry dont agree with you, works just fine here after finding out how and where. I would agree with you if you were talking about messinger. Graham For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Windows Live Mail Update Is Impossible
Thanks for those great tips! -Original Message- From: Graham Smith Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 10:56 AM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Windows Live Mail Update Is Impossible Hi Ah perhaps that is the difference I am using Jaws 12. I have just pressed Control r and here I am. Try pressing f6 until you hear Mail and then arrow down util you hear contacts and press enter. You will now be in the list of your contacts where you can right clink on the desired contact to email them. To get back to the maill window press f6 again until you hear Mail and press enter. Not sure about altering columns, dont use that much, but I am sure I altered them once because I removed the sender name fom a particular folder and found it did it to all folders which I did not want soe I turned it back on so I believe things can be done with columns. I must admit when replying to a message it is not all together clear where you are but a quick tab or shift tab will move jaws so as you know here you are etc., I also find when I am in the message area it is silent and to have to press insert Z to turn off the current navigation mode otherwise it will not type. Once you have sent your message remember to press Insert Z again otherwise messages will not be read automaticaly. Best of luck Graham -Original Message- From: Bill Gallik Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 6:52 AM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Windows Live Mail Update Is Impossible OK Graham, something is really amiss here because I'm finding it difficult to: 1) rearrange the columns in the header page 2) send replies (or any compose any e-mail) Which version of JAWS are you using? Perhaps that's the difference. I find no appreciable relief when switching to JAWS 11 over JAWS 10. -Original Message- From: Graham Smith Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2010 10:31 AM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Windows Live Mail Update Is Impossible Sorry dont agree with you, works just fine here after finding out how and where. I would agree with you if you were talking about messinger. Graham For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - A WOMAN'S MIND IS CLEANER THAN A MAN'S BECAUSE SHE CHANGES IT MORE OFTEN! - Source Unknown For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Windows Live Mail Update Is Impossible
Well Gang, I did some updates this morning and now have what I believe is the latest version of Windows Live Mail. My advice: stay the Hell away from this garbage. It's near impossible to navigate if you're totally blind (I have no idea how it is if one has sight). Microsoft has completely changed the menus. I can't find the procedures to change the order of items in message headers and this entire user interface rework is nothing short of a load of . . . well, better keep it clean. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - A WOMAN'S MIND IS CLEANER THAN A MAN'S BECAUSE SHE CHANGES IT MORE OFTEN! - Source Unknown For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Noting Some Quirks In JAWS 10 Windows Live Mail
I've been running Windows Live Mail on a Vista system with JAWS 10 and have noted two of the following quirks: 1) After replying to an e-mail (usually, I navigate to the bottom of the reply, highlight everything above my signature lines and delete them),I find that subsequently opening more messages that JAWS does not read them -- at all. 2) This one is sinister; after collapsing and deleting a block of messages JAWS will read the following message header as if it were from the thread I've j ust deleted. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - A WOMAN'S MIND IS CLEANER THAN A MAN'S BECAUSE SHE CHANGES IT MORE OFTEN! - Source Unknown For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Noting Some Quirks In JAWS 10 Windows LiveMail
Version 2009. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - A WOMAN'S MIND IS CLEANER THAN A MAN'S BECAUSE SHE CHANGES IT MORE OFTEN! - Source Unknown For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Another KUDOS To The List - Was: memo to the list
David, Rick, Bob, et al, I know this thread is going to generate a LOT of positive traffic for you guys so I've decided to change the subject line so it needn't be opened for others to appreciate the content. I completely agree with Jenny and the rest that this list has been a blessing and that you as moderators/list-owners have done a great job of overseeing it. A huge, sincere, heart-felt THANK YOU! Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - Every path has some puddles. - Country Wisdoms - source unknown For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] issues with the windows addressbook in live mailon windows 7
You didn't say, but is your To: field being populated? And, exactly what are you referring when you say automatically populated? Are you talking about typing a few characters for the desired contact(s) or something entirely different? One tip I can offer is that if you select the Select From Contacts . . . TOOLS item, you need to use the space bar to make your selections consistently. Also, when in the list I get the actual e-mail addresses but if I hit the tab I then get the names to select from. Windows Live Mail is not nearly so JAWS-friendly as Outlook Express or just plain Windows mail were. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Windows Live Mail Sending Error
Many of you might recall that I recently migrated (unsuspectingly) from Outlook Express/Windows Mail to Windows Live Mail. You might also recall that I suffered much consternation in that some of my messages were not being sent; instead getting bogged down in the Outbox because of a sending error. Well, I'm posting this to warn all of you of a couple of little nasty features (I consider them bugs) in Windows Live Mail. For those of you that use or formerly used Outlook Express/Windows Mail that entries in the address book permitted several e-mail addresses to be listed for any single contact. And you might also know that if you did in fact list several e-mail addresses for any given contact that one of those addresses was identified as the default address and that's the address Outlook Express/Windows Mail would use if you typed the person's name in any of the address fields. Hence, you could keep a running list of a friend's e-mail addresses as they might migrate from service to service, never needing to get rid of the old address(es). Well, Windows Live Mail doesn't quite work that way. If it should find your old Contacts list from Windows Mail or your old address book from Outlook Express it will use the first e-mail address in the specific addressee's specifications. To boot (as if this isn't bad enough), if that now invalid address just happens to resolve to the same domain as yourself the e-mail will not get sent. So, here's what happened to my e-mail procedures that caused me so much consternation: 1) a school boy friend had changed his ISP from Centurytel to Charter so I had two addresses for him: MyBuddy'sn...@centurytel.net MyBuddy'sn...@charter.net (the current one and default) 2) as you may know, centurytel.net is the domain of my own ISP 3) addressing Loren placed the centurytel.net address in the To: list (rather than the charter.net one) 4) in sending out jokes, I have several groups established with about 45 addressees and naturally Loren is in one of those lists 5) since Loren's address included my own ISP domain, it was (apparently) checked for validity before sending to any of the addressees. 6) the message would go out to none of the addressees, getting stuck in the Outbox with a sending error flagged at the bottom of the page 7) knowing I had Loren's address right, I started testing, sending to each member of the lists individually and naturally not bothering to send to Loren since I knew his address was correct. 8) when I finally had to suppose that Loren's address was incorrect, I tried sending to him -- found the failing recipient, but why 9) Took me another hour or so to discover that the old (first) address was being placed in the address field. Now, I've tried this specifically with a mail ID I pretty well can assume is incorrect: NoBody@ where I sent a message to both nob...@centurytel.net (immediately failed) and to nob...@charter.net (got sent, but naturally bounced). Just thought you may want to know about this to save you the grief, frustration, consternation and agitation I experienced. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. - US Editor and Satirist, H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] NEW VERSION OF JAWS WORKS WELL WITH WINDOWS LIVEMAIL
Wow John, thanks for all those terrific tips concerning JAWS 11 and Windows Live Mail. This ought to save me a few strands of hair on my already too sparsely covered scalp! Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. - US Editor and Satirist, H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Accessing Local Contacts Via Windows Live Mail
OK Gang, Who out there knows how to efficiently/conveniently access the local Contacts (the ones in the Contacts folder of your PC) for selecting as addressees when composing e-mail messages and using JAWS? Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. - US Editor and Satirist, H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Accessing Local Contacts Via Windows Live Mail
Deanne writes: -- From: Deanne Miller jawsstude...@gmail.com If you're using Windows Vista and Windows mail, I'm pretty sure the command is control plus shift plus C when you're focused on your inbox. This should place you in your contacts list. When you locate the contact you want to email, go to the file menu, then new, then message, and press enter. Thank you Deanne for trying to answer my question. I'm not sure if you really meant Windows Mail or if you are referring to Windows Live Mail; they are certainly different animals. When I was using Windows Mail I could bring up a composition session, then go to the Recipients item under the TOOLS menu and select each and any entry in my Contacts. But when I try to go to Select From Contacts in Windows Live Mail I get a message from JAWS that this particular TOOL menu item is not available. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. - US Editor and Satirist, H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] JSay verses jTools
Annette, Have you considered using a secondary sound device for your JAWS output? For example, you can buy a Turtle Beach USB sound device and configure JAWS to speak through that device. I'd suspect that you could then use headphones with the USB sound device to listen to JAWS while the native sound card would be free to process Dragon input. The Turtle Beach USB sound device is quite reasonably priced -- around $15 or so. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. - US Humorist, Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Is NTI Legit
Are any of you on this list familiar with National Telecommuting Institute? If so, is this a legitimate work at home outfit? Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. - US Humorist, Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] What Is Windows Sound Recorder Was: Audacity - Extracting A Snippet From A CDTrack
OK, just what is Windows Sound Recorder? Will it open an existing audio file such a WAV or MP3? Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. - US Humorist, Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] accessing blackberry
There are lists that do focus exclusively on cell phones and usage by blind individuals. One particular list is the Blind Accessible Cell Phones Discussion List, you can subscribe by sending an e-mail message to: blindphones-requ...@mosenexplosion.com with the single word subscribe (without the quotation marks) in the body of your message. Bill Gallik E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. - US Editor and Satirist, H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) - Original Message - From: Moderator modera...@jaws-users.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 9:54 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] accessing blackberry Let's take the cel phone conversation off-list. Richard Q. Justice-list moderator blind-computing@jaws-users.com jaws-users-l...@jaws-users.com - Original Message - From: Rick Watson rwat...@eckeranch.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 9:15 AM Subject: [Blind-Computing] accessing blackberry Good morning listers, I was asked by my supervisor if blackberry development was possible for me. is there anyone out there using the orator screenreader for blackberry. I would appreciate any thoughts on this subject. thanks rick ECKE RANCH Providing Integrity, Innovation, Grower Solutions for 3 Generations! This communication (including any attachments) may contain privileged or confidential information of Paul Ecke Ranch and is intended for a specific individual. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this communication, including any attachments without reading or saving them in any manner, and you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this communication, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Excel 2007 | Totaling - New Rows Are Added
Bill, I've encountered the same problem as you. When you set up the formula -- SUM(C5:C10) -- and then insert another row ahead of Row 5 the value in the new C5 is not reflected in the sum. I tried this at least 4 times with the same results. Here's how I would go about doing this, I would employ a NIL cell at C4 (or C5 if there's some reason you can't use Row 4 and then use the formula - SUM(C5:C11) - and then as you insert row above Row 5 the formula will automatically adjust to increase the last cell of the formula to reflect the new row number it occupies. In other words, C11 will become C12, then C13, then C14, etc. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. - German Aphorist, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799) For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Digital Talking Book Player - Library Guide intext format
Did you all know that if you do not insert a book cartridge in the player and push ANY of the buttons the function of said button is described in detail for you? And, again if you do not insert a book cartridge, if you press the play button and keep it pressed for several seconds the user guide will be read to you? Just thought you should know -- if you don't. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. - German Aphorist, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799) For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] ethernet card not recognized
Was that ethernet card recently installed? If not (meaning it has been in the PC for a while), was it ever recognized? It may be that your ethernet card has bit the dust, or it could mean that there is no driver software or the driver software has gotten corrupted. If you have the CD that came with the ethernet card try re-installing the driver software., Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. - US Humorist, Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] TaxAct?
TaxACT is both a software application and a web site; both designed to assist persons obligated to file income tax forms with the United States department of revenue. More than that, it also has state modules where such persons can also file state tax forms. I used the software application for many years; until my personal data got a bit more complicated than I could conveniently scan for data entry (as I'm totally blind, I'd need to depend on scanning to read pertinent information from tax documents). Now my brother files my tax forms for a small fee (he's a bookkeeper and does taxes as a side business) and he also uses the commercial version of TaxACT. I can tell you that the onboard application (as opposed to the web site) is very accessible although you do need to modify JAWS scripts because each executable is named for the year (i.e., TaxACT04, TaxACT05, TaxACT06, etc) so you need to have equivalent script files appropriately named to function for the variance in program name -- this is not difficult at all. As for the web, never used it personally so can't speak to that. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. - US Editor and Satirist, H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Jaws keystrokes for IE8
As a general point of reference, using the JAWS Keyboard Manager for any given application will give you the exact set of key strokes available both from JAWS and the application itself. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. - US Editor and Satirist, H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] TaxAct?
You can call Second Story Software at 319.373.4514 -or- Go to the web site at: http://www.TaxAct.com/ There's provisions for purchasing and downloading their bundles where you can get the Federal and your specific state module with your choice of downloading it or requesting a CD. HTH Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. - US Editor and Satirist, H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] the A tilda
An octal digit is a number in base 8. The number system of that sort counts like this: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 30, The character representation to distinguish an octal digit from a decimal digit is the leading 0 so 6 and 06 are in fact the same value; but 23 and 023 are entirely different values where the 023 is the octal digit and is equivalent to the decimal value of 19 (023 being 2 8's and 3 single units). To go a bit further, hexadecimal digits are those with a 16 base; counting in hexadecimal would be as follows: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, 1E, 20, Hexadecimal digits are designated as such by a leading 0x or 0X so the numbers 0x20 and 20 likewise represent entirely different values; 0x20 is equivalent to 32 (2 16's and 0 single units). Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Calendar Programs - Which One to Install
OK Gang, Which of the calendar programs available on the JAWS Users site is preferable. I see Personal Reminder and Sunbird are both available, but which one to choose. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. - US Editor and Satirist, H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] the A tilda
Remember that when a number begins with a zero (0) that indicates an octal digit. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. - US Editor and Satirist, H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) - Original Message - From: Mike Barbara mb69ma...@charter.net To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 12:34 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] the A tilda Hi Martina Jacob; Would either of you or anyone else on the list have a complete list of characters / symbols with the numbers keystrokes that are used in conjunction with the alt key? Or, could someone tell us what number to start and end with for the characters / symbols without 0's in front of them and what number we would start / end with when a 0 is supposed to be included at the front of the number? All help will be appreciated enormously by a great many people. Thanks much. Take care. Mike - Original Message - From: Jacob Kruger To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] the A tilda If this is the character you want: ñ It's windows character code is 164, so you can type it by turning on numlock, and then use the alt key along with typing that code on the numpad. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' - Original Message - From: Randy Tijerina rtijeri...@satx.rr.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 1:10 AM Subject: [Blind-Computing] the A tilda Friends, I'm sorry. I can't find the A tilda. is it listed differently in the symbols? I am using windows xp. jaws 11. Randy./ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4957 (20100319) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4961 (20100320) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4961 (20100320) __ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Friends I'd like to use this symbol whencomposing a message
Are you using JAWS? I ask because if you are, you could use the JAWS-Key+4 keystrokes to insert those sorts of letters. That is, if á, é, í, ó, ú and ý will serve your purposes. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. - US Editor and Satirist, H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] the A tilda
Randy, It's referred to as a acute and A acute. I'm not sure that's the solution though because it seems to me that the a with a tilde may be different from á, etc. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. - US Editor and Satirist, H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) - Original Message - From: Randy Tijerina rtijeri...@satx.rr.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 6:10 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] the A tilda Friends, I'm sorry. I can't find the A tilda. is it listed differently in the symbols? I am using windows xp. jaws 11. Randy./ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Juno Accounts with Outlook Express/Windows Mail
Is it possible to set up a Juno e-mail account and use Outlook Express/Windows Mail to download messages from that account onto the PC? If so, is there any instructions as how to best establish the account in the Microsoft e-mail client (Outlook Express/Windows Mail)? Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - A book is a mirror. If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out. - Written two centuries ago by a German wit named Lichtenberg. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Word Template for Standard Checks
Several years ago I had an MS-Office Tutorial from CrissCross Technologies and one of the features addressed in the Word section discussed how to set up a template for printing standard sized checks. Does anybody on this list have such a template? If so, would you be willing to send it to me? Or, can anybody offer suggestions as how to best design a template for printing standard sized checks? As I recall, the template was a form where you could fill in the pertinent information (i.e., payee, date, amount, memo, etc.) and then, after adjusting your printer paper feed and inserting in a blank check, that check would be filled in by the printer with the information provided. I imagine the document would need to be in Landscape mode so it could run through the printer. Any help would be appreciated. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - A book is a mirror. If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out. - Written two centuries ago by a German wit named Lichtenberg, but I think the same thing applies today to a computer screen. P.S. I do have the Talking Checkbook program and the Quickbooks style checks, but these are excessively expensive and I'd like to be able to print out checks from my alternate account. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] running cron in Unix
Kevin, Have you read the cron manual page? Try this: man cron There are a number of questions that arise from this very brief description you offer. Honestly, it would be much better to speak to somebody over the telephone because there are a series of Did you do . . .? Then you have to do . . . scenarios. If you are in the contiguous United States and send me your telephone number with a best time to call I'll try helping you out. I'm not a Linux administrator, but I was a professional Unix® Systems programmer for almost 20 years at Bell Labs; I have quite a lot of experience with cron jobs because I used to set up and maintain such animals for some of the DB administration I handled. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] running cron in Unix
Oh yeah, Kevin, I almost forgot, to set up a cron entry you need to use the crontab command. Check that out by executing the command: man crontab crontab -l: list the cron entries for user crontab -d: delete user's cron entry crontab: set ups an input session where you are required to type in the desired entries The best way to do this crontab stuff is to creat a flat (text) file with the appropriate tab delimited fields, then you can do this: crontab yourTextFile (the less than tells the shell to take input from the listed file rather than from the standard input (keyboard) Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] USB adaptor
That's an interesting question. I'm presuming that what you're talking about is a cable with a mail USB connector on one end to plug into the PC and a block with 4 female connectors for receiving various USB devices? And do you have multiple USB ports on your PC? Here's what I'm supposing: you have two or three of these adapters and maybe 4 USB ports on your PC, you're wondering if you can plug all three of the USB adapters into three of the USB ports on the PC and maybe another device on the 4th PC port for a total of 13 total devices (3 adapters × 4 female receivers plus the 1 raw port)? Why don't you try it and let the rest of us know how it turned out? Seriously, I don't see any reason this would not work! But what in the world would you need with all those USB devices? One thing for sure, you can swap USB adapters and devices in/out as you need them. Just be careful to close out any device before you physically remove it from the PC configuration. In Vista there is a Safely Remove option in the FILE menu, I have no idea if this is available in earlier versions of Windows but be sure to use something akin to this procedure just to make sure your PC is not performing I/O on the device being removed. -- Merry Christmas Holland, Chillie Bill From Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Nephew Fred admonishes Scrooge for his lack of Christmas spirit: `There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,' returned the nephew. `Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!' For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] USB adaptor
If you have 2 external hard drives and they're both USB devices you can simply attach both of them to whatever USB ports you have at your disposal. Then, if you go to My Computer and check out the list of available drives, you should be able to distinguish which drive has the files you want to save and which drive you wish to copy the files onto. Simply go to the determined source drive, select the folders/files you want to save to the other drive, execute a COPY and change focus to the other (receiving) drive. Once you're in the folder on the receiving drive where you want to save these files, execute a PASTE and that should be it. Unless, of course, you do not want folder and file hierarchy to math that of the source drive. Then it would get more cumbersome. Good Luck. HTH -- Merry Christmas Holland, Chillie Bill From Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, Nephew Fred admonishes Scrooge for his lack of Christmas spirit: `There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say,' returned the nephew. `Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!' For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] I took the plunge and am Now trying to go withThunderbird
I'm completely confused as to why, if folks are experiencing so much difficulty, they are prone to use browsers and e-mail clients other than Internet Explorer and Windows Mail or Outlook. I understand the glamour of being able to identify one's self as a non-conformist and hence using tools other than those provided by Microsoft, but considering the difficulties I've seen on various lists I wouldn't touch any of these tools with someone else's screen reader. Obviously, JAWS has been developed and delivered complete with strong support files to interact with Internet Explorer and any of the Microsoft e-mail clients. I presume the same can be said for WindowEyes. So, why not not use what works best given the framework of needing to use a screen reader? I guess, that since I was a software developer for so many years, I find no personal satisfaction in being able to say I am not a conformist. I just want to use what works the best given my limitations. If the reason for using the non-Microsoft tools is enhanced security, then why not take the entire plunge and move to Linux? Merry Christmas Happy New Year!!! Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net In the opening paragraphs of A Christmas Carol Dickens is overwrought to express that Jacob Marley is dead: Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Windows 7 E-Mail Clients - Was: I took the plunge and am Now trying togowithThunderbird
Is that right, no Windows Mail in Windows 7? Actually, I believe that Outlook Express and Windows Mail are the same basic program, but nonetheless if neither are available in Windows 7, well if that isn't hors**it! Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net In the opening paragraphs of A Christmas Carol Dickens is overwrought to express that Jacob Marley is dead: Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Windows 7 E-Mail Clients - Was: I tookthe plunge and am Now trying togowithThunderbird
Rose, I agree 100%! Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net In the opening paragraphs of A Christmas Carol Dickens is overwrought to express that Jacob Marley is dead: Mind! I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a door-nail. - Original Message - From: ROSEMARIE CHAVARRIA knitqueen2...@verizon.net To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 9:41 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Windows 7 E-Mail Clients - Was: I tookthe plunge and am Now trying togowithThunderbird Hi, Bill, A friend of mine just got windows 7 and she said there wasn't an email program like outlook express or windows mail in it. I suggested to her that she download thunderbird because it's free but she went and ordered microsoft outlook and paid a very high price for it. I would have just gotten thunderbird instead of paying 99 bucks for outlook. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] .WAB file to text
Why would you need to convert this address book from a WAV file to text? The address book can be exported as a CSV or as individual business cards referred to as VCF files. Bill Gallik billgal...@centurytel.net - Why is it, whether you sit up or sit down, the result is the same? For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] JAWS Keyboard Manager As Help - Was: WAB file to text
Often when I find myself at a loss as how best to perform some function in an unfamiliar application (i.e., MS-Excel) using the keyboard I find that opening the JAWS Keyboard Manager for that specific application offers a wealth of insights. Bill Gallik billgal...@centurytel.net - Why is it, whether you sit up or sit down, the result is the same? For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Defining Groups in Vista/Windows Mail
The Outlook Express address book provided for creating groups where a list of e-mail recipients could be declared. Is there a way to do this in Vista/Windows Mail? I often send out messages to the same folks and it would be nice if I could take advantage of this very convenient to name recipients. Thanks for any and all suggestions. Bill Gallik billgal...@centurytel.net - Why is it, whether you sit up or sit down, the result is the same? For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Kindle DX
Is it true that the Kindle DX has inaccessible menus? Bill Gallik billgal...@centurytel.net - Why is it, whether you sit up or sit down, the result is the same? For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Text to speech conversion
You have to pay for Text Aloud, but ATT does have a demo page where you can select the voice you want to test and then type in a limited amount of text to have read aloud. The web address for this demo site is: http://www.research.att.com/projects/tts/demo.html HTH Bill Gallik billgal...@centurytel.net - Why is it, whether you sit up or sit down, the result is the same? For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Splitting mp3s with JAWS
I suspect Tyler is running on a Vista computer. I have quite a few Windows 2000/XP applications that will not run on Vista. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Formula for Compound Interest
Can anybody tell me how to enter the formula for compound interest into the native onboard calculator? I'm having particular trouble with the power entry. Total = (P + (P*I)N) where: P is the principle I is the interest rate N is the number of years being calculated for (should be to the Nth power) Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Old Menus with New MS-Office
Hey Gang, I now have a PC running Vista and I've had to buy a new copy of MS-Office (2007). Some time ago I recall there was some discussion of methods to incorporate the old menu layout into MS-Office 2007, could somebody kindly refresh my memory as how to do this? Thanks! Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] This stupid outlook express message
Would help to go up to Local Folders and close it, then do the compacting routine? Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] OUTLOOK EXPRESS, EXPANDED MESSAGE ANNOUNCEMENT
For starters, expanded means that all messages of a given thread (your original e-mail and my and all subsequent replies for example) are listed individually in the review screen for the particular folder. On the other hand, collapsed means that there's only one message listed per thread so if this thread were collapsed arrowing up and down the folder screen would reveal only the top-most message (your original inquiry). It seems to me that the later versions of JAWS (8 and beyond) were terrible at keeping this information straight on older versions of the OS. Now that I'm on Vista this annoyance h as disappeared -- hardly the solution one wants to have to facilitate. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Using Audacity
OK, I've heard from members of this list that Audacity is the way to go insofar as getting slices of audio files. How would one go about taking a slice of an MP3 file, say from second 43 to second 58, and saving it in a 15-second sound clip of MP3 persuasion? Does the MP3 encoder need to be installed? If so, where one be gotten? Is this something a totally blind user could do? Are there JAWS scripts to facilitate the interface for Audacity? I'm finding that there's a lot of buttons on the screen that are not labeled. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Using Audacity
Went to that web page -- or should I say I tired to go there -- but got an error message that the site couldn't be found. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! - Original Message - From: Jacob Kruger jac...@mailzone.co.za To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Using Audacity You have to download the lame MP3 encoder to get it to export directly to MP3 files - think there's a link to it in that tutorial page I sent you last time, and it also tells you how to implement it. Apart from that, Ctrl + Shift + I would let you import the said file, and you would then be in the selection section of it's interface, Ctrl + F6 will take you to the next relevant section, tab to the start and end controls and move left and right into the relevant HH, MM, SS sections and type in the values there, but tab in and out to double the settings/selections. You would then, on the file menu, choose export selection, and there you go. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Audacity Documentation
Where is the user documentation for Audacity? Seems to me this is why I blew this tool off on my Windows 2000 system. That help feature is a piece of crap if you're totally blind. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Vista Is OK
Hmmm, after all the negative information I heard about Vista I must admit I was quite reluctant to go with this OS. Now that I've been pounding the keyboard for a week now though, I find that I'm liking this OS very much. There are features built in that I used to have to set up as hot keys or play some other tricks to enhance my personal efficiency. Now that I'm learning some of the nuances of this OS I find myself liking it better and better. I would say that for someone who is more inclined to keyboard operation this is a very nice system. Now, I wonder how Windows 7 will be? I don't think I'll be so timid in the future. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Audacity Documentation
Thank You Jacob! Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Taking A Slice from an MP3 File
Can anybody advise me as to a good program to take a slice from an MP3 file and save it as user named. In short, I've ripped the sound tracks from a music CD and would like to isolate a small sample of one of the songs to use as a ring tone on my cell phone. For example, I would like to take a slice of Don't Tell Mama from Gary Alan to use as the ring tone when my Mom's phone number calls me. In fact, I would like to have a specific song for each contact in my contact list; then I could turn off caller announcement when out in public and I'd be able to tell who's calling by the ring tone. That is why I bought the extra memory for my cell phone in the first place. Any advice will be appreciated. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Taking A Slice from an MP3 File
Got a wonderful snippet of Fleetwood Mac's Tell Me Lies and have assigned that as the Ring Tone for several of the gals that call me from time to time. Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Taking A Slice from an MP3 File
How accessible is Audacity and can I get a free copy? Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Windows Mail Popping Into Folders
OK, I have three e-mail accounts so I have mail rules to load messages from two of the accounts into alternative folders. As I arrow up and down the folder list Windows Mail automatically pops into ANY AND ALL (including the Sent Items, Deleted Items and Junk E-mail) folders if any of them should contain messages -- regardless if there are new messages are only previously read messages. How can I disable this terribly annoying habit of Windows Mail? Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Another Windows Mail Issue
OK Gang, now I've done something I really didn't want to do. While trying to set up my wireless router I apparently made some changes that causes Windows Mail to display the connection screens each and every time the e-mail client goes out to poll my ISP for messages. Given that I have JAWS reading the screens it does get a bit annoying. Can anybody offer me any advice as to how to turn off this very annoying -- damn annoying -- display? Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Windows Mail Prompt
I just bought a new PC with Vista Premium installed and am now using Windows Mail (although it looks a lot like Outlook Express to me). I'm encountering a prompt I really don't much care for; when I have a conversation collapsed and delete the first message I'm prompted as to whether or not I want to delete all items in the conversation. I have my messages presented such that conversations are expanded and I then deliberately collapse the list in order to delete the entire conversation with a single delete stroke. Can anybody advise me as how to turn off that darn prompt? Thanks! Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - The early bird may get the worm, - but the second mouse gets the cheese. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Windows Mail Prompt
Thanks Rick, that problem solved. But, now another question comes to mind; why wasn't JAWS reading the check box correctly in that dialog? Had JAWS read that control properly to me I never would've needed to ask the original question in the first place. Here's the deal; when I tabbed to what I now know to be the Don't Ask Me This Again check box JAWS would read out, Windows Mail rather than pronouncing the checkbox prompt. Any ideas on this? Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese! For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Shopping List Software
Does anybody know of a program that will allow the user to: 1) create and print a customized shopping list. 2) create specific categories of items to serve as headings on the printed list. 3) provide for several standing lists. 4) create a master list from which items will be selected. I realize this is not a difficult project in a Word document, but I thought a program to do this sort of thing might be convenient. Let's offer a for instance here; Joe needs to print up a shopping list to go to the hardware store. He would have created a hardware master list at some previous time and he could then launch the Shopping List Manager program, select the type of list as hardware store and select items from his master list for hardware. The application would then have options to save this current list and print it out. Now, suppose Joe's wife Joanne needs to go grocery shopping; she could launch the program and open her last grocery list, add and delete items from a master grocery list and save and print the new list. The Shopping List Manager would provide options to create various master lists and add/delete items from each list. It would also print out clean lists with only the items desired appearing. And each item might be preceded by a hollow bullet so the shopper could check each item as it is located. And, oh yeah, the program should provide for caveats for items; i.e., 1 Pint Raspberries (unless they exceed $2.50/Pint) --- Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - As the skunk said when he fired a shot upwind, it all comes back to me now. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Question regarding lenox and jaws.
Couple of things from an ex-Bell-Labber: 1) It is Linux, not Lenox. 2) It is not a program, it is an Operating System. ---*---*---*---*---*---*--- Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - Anonymous (from my source of goofy stuff) - Eggs and Bacon for Breakfast - An entire day commitment for a Hen. - A Lifetime Commitment for a Hog For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] friends, how do you uninstall and reinstall windows without formatting?
Randy, Have you done a Disk Defrag lately? It just may be that each of the DBX files where messages are stored in Outlook Express are severely defragmented; especially if you are not cleaning your Deleted folder. ---*---*---*---*---*---*--- Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - Anonymous (from my source of goofy stuff) - Eggs and Bacon for Breakfast - An entire day commitment for a Hen. - A Lifetime Commitment for a Hog For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] Question regarding lenox and jaws.
My sincerest apologies if my post sounded like a scolding. The reason I brought attention to the misspelling is because for members of the list that are totally blind (as am I) it's important that Linux be spelled correctly for referencing search engines and the like. I also pointed out that Linux is an Operating system (as opposed to a mere program) because folks that depend on JAWS or WindowEyes would be hard-pressed to use JAWS with Linux -- directly any way. So again, I apologize if I seemed preachy, stuffy or any other know it all characteristic, sure didn't mean to come off that way! --- Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - As the skunk said when he fired a shot upwind, it all comes back to me now. - Original Message - From: kim kelly kim...@clearwire.net To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 8:16 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] Question regarding lenox and jaws. Well, sorry for the miss spelling. LOL. I know it is an operating system. my goof. LOL. Thanks for the scolding. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] scanner help
Let's remember to not confuse the special scanning applications developed by Kurzweil and Freedom Scientific (OpenBook) with the utilities that accompany most scanner peripherals these days. Kurzweil and OpenBook are designed to work specifically with blind users and are integrated with the on-board scanning peripheral(s) available on any given PC configuration. On the other hand, the software utilities that usually come with a newly purchased scanner are general user packages that may or may not work well with screen reading software. What I've discovered with my new Dell AIO 810 is that the included scanning utility software will allow much higher resolution (up to 2400 DPI if memory serves); the image is then translated into text via the on-board Optical Scanning Recognition (OCR) software I happen to have (which is ABBY on my system). I find it much more convenient to use my Kurzweil software because it is designed to work effectively with screen reading software. I suspect that if I run into a particularly tough document to scan accurately I could (and have) resort to the accompanying utility that would allow me to up the scanning resolution dramatically. Ultimately though, it all falls to the OCR to convert the scanned image into a text based document. The utility that comes with my new Dell all-in-one scanner is somewhat clumsy for me to use with JAWS and I found the utility that came with my old HP PSC 1315 to be likewise clumsy to use as my main document scanning utility. But these components -- the scanning software utilities, the image scanner and the OCR all work together to yield what we need. ---*---*---*---*---*---*--- Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - Anonymous (from my source of goofy stuff) - Eggs and Bacon for Breakfast - An entire day commitment for a chicken. - A Lifetime Commitment for a Pig For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] scanner help
Reading Edge was a dedicated Text-To-Speech reading system that was essentially a PC configured with a scanning component, an OCR component and a TTS component. By dedicated I mean there was nothing you could do with this system other than scan documentation. The advantage to such a system is that the processor need only handle the bare essentials of resource management and process handling. You could get away with a smaller, less efficient CPU and supposedly have satisfactory throughput for reading documents. Apparently though, it wasn't quite satisfactory enough because it has apparently disappeared from the market. ---*---*---*---*---*---*--- Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net - Anonymous (from my source of goofy stuff) - Eggs and Bacon for Breakfast - An entire day commitment for a chicken. - A Lifetime Commitment for a Pig For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] making greeting cards using microsoft word
I believe you could do this by modifying the page orientation to landscape and then setting the margins accordingly. For example, suppose you are using a standard letter size (8.5 × 11) sheet of paper: 1) Open the FILE menu and select the PAGE SETUP item. 2) In the MARGINS tab minimally set the left margin to some value beyond 5.5 - possibly 6.5 (be careful to allow some printing space on the right side of the page). a: Remember you'll be folding this sheet of paper in half and printing on only the right side of both pages (11 ÷ 2). b: You'll probably want to adjust the right margin as well to equal the true left margin size, setting the left margin to 6.5 will render a true printing margin of 1 on the side where printing occurs; maybe set the right margin to 1 so your printed pages will be horizontally centered. c: you may likewise want to adjust the top and bottom margins so you'll have a nicely centered printed page. 3) Tab to the PAPER SIZE dialog and make certain the Landmark option (not PORTRAIT) is selected. 4) You will likely want to go to the LAYOUT dialog to set the VERTICAL ALIGNMENT to centered. 5) You may want to save this blank Greeting Card as a .DOT (Document Template) file. Now remember that when placing text and objects in this Greeting Card that you'll have only one half of the sheet of paper on each side for printing material. When the print is run, if things were set up correctly, you should be able to fold the paper in half (like a greeting card) and the front page and the right side of the inside should have anything on them. Actually, I know this works because I've done it. HTH ---*---*---*---*---*--- Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they make the best of everything they have. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] Outlook Express CCapp.exe
I've had a situation on my desk top for almost two years now and I've decided to ask if anybody on this list has a more appropriate solution than I've been using. Here's the problem; Outlook Express (and Internet Explorer) loses connection to the outside world. I find that if I go to the RUN item on the START menu and manually launch CCapp.exe the problem goes away. I'm configured for my ISP as LAN to connect via the DSL broadband modem. Can anybody offer any insights? ---*---*---*---*---*--- Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they make the best of everything they have. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
Re: [Blind-Computing] AVG Accessibility
Thanks to all of you that offered their insights to my question regarding accessibility for AVG. I ESPECIALLY APPRECIATE that each of you offered advice beyond strictly AVG per se and included other anti-virus utilities. I should have titled the thread Anti-Virus Accessibility rather than AVG Accessibility because that is what I was truly looking for, but you folks came through with the answers I am seeking. Again, MUCH THANKS for such valuable advice! ---*---*---*---*---*--- Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they make the best of everything they have. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
[Blind-Computing] AVG Accessibility
IS AVG accessible via JAWS? Are there other anti-virus programs that are effective and accessible? Frankly, I'm really tired of Norton, it's such a resource hog! ---*---*---*---*---*--- Holland's Person, Bill E-Mail: billgal...@centurytel.net The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they make the best of everything they have. For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/
