[Blind-Computing] UPDATES TO THE WEBSITE

2008-01-14 Thread Rick Justice
http://www.blind-computing.com/personal/personal_data.php Contact Keeper: personal imformation manager. http://www.blind-computing.com/audio/audio.php mp3 direct cut mp3 cd doctor lite mute.exe DrO_Plugin_Pack_2_0_21_Build_140: Lame encoder for WinAmp:

Re: [Blind-Computing] JAWS KEY?

2008-01-14 Thread Chris Hallsworth
Hi, the JAWS key is what Freedom Scientific refers to when performing a JAWS-related command. So, for example, to read the Window title, you press JAWS key plus the letter t. The JAWS key can be one of the following: caps lock (default for laptops), extended/numpad insert (default for

Re: [Blind-Computing] JAWS AND WINAMP

2008-01-14 Thread Chris Hallsworth
Hi, try looking in the JAWS help topics for Winamp. Hope that helps. At 00:44 14/01/2008, you wrote: Hello, Is there a tutorial available on using JAWS with WINAMP? Thanks, Steve Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives:

Re: [Blind-Computing] More Word Woes

2008-01-14 Thread Jacob Kruger
For some reason, on my machine I can't find that normal.dot file, and I have FWIW, Office 2003. Either way, I think that if you simply delete (maybe rather move that file to somewhere else in case you need it later), then MS Word should automatically recreate it back to the default the next

Re: [Blind-Computing] games by Jim Kitchen

2008-01-14 Thread Jacob Kruger
Pretty sure it'll be fine since I don't think either of my laptops really have top-end soundcards and to be honest, even though I have downloaded a bunch of other more action specific games, I've honestly played Jim Kitchen's monopoly and (lately) hangman more than anything else recently. Stay

[Blind-Computing] NORMAL.DOT

2008-01-14 Thread Rick Justice
Hi Jacob, Try this: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates\Normal.dot You may need to substitute your name, for Owner, in the file path. HTH, Richard Q. Justice www.blind-computing.com Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for

Re: [Blind-Computing] NORMAL.DOT

2008-01-14 Thread Jacob Kruger
Ok. Is there - wonder why when I did a search on that whole drive it didn't return that file/path - suppose it could have something to do with some or other file attribute that I hadn't 'included' in the search or something. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...Fate had

Re: [Blind-Computing] jaws and virtual private networking

2008-01-14 Thread Frank Ventura
I spoke to someone at FS a while ago about this, but as you know sometimes you can ask 4 different people the same questions and get 4 different responses, so verify this info for yourself. It may have changed since I checked it out. I as told you will need two licenses of JFW both of which will

Re: [Blind-Computing] games by Jim Kitchen

2008-01-14 Thread Chris Hallsworth
Hi, if the sound card isn't multichannel, then yes there'd be problems. For example, if JAWS was speaking then any other sounds won't be heard as JAWS at the time is taking over the soundcard. At 03:39 14/01/2008, you wrote: Hi, everyone. When I was visiting some friends on New Year's weekend,

Re: [Blind-Computing] UPDATES TO THE WEBSITE

2008-01-14 Thread Devona Abel
I don't want to seem like a dummy but can you put better descriptions of this stuff here. Devona - Original Message - From: Rick Justice To: blind-computing Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 2:32 AM Subject: [Blind-Computing] UPDATES TO THE WEBSITE

Re: [Blind-Computing] games by Jim Kitchen

2008-01-14 Thread Rick Justice
Hi Kerby, Unless it is an old computer, it is most likely that the soundcard is a multi channel. HTH, Richard Q. Justice www.blind-computing.com - Original Message - From: Kerby Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 8:58 AM Subject: Re:

Re: [Blind-Computing] NORMAL.DOT

2008-01-14 Thread Rick Justice
Hi Jacob, If you don't have hidden files shown, and did not set the search parameters to include hidden files, the search would have failed to find it. Just a possibility. HTH, Richard Q. Justice www.blind-computing.com - Original Message - From: Jacob Kruger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: [Blind-Computing] UPDATES TO THE WEBSITE

2008-01-14 Thread Rick Justice
Hi Devona, If you visit the pages that were listed, you will find more imformation. Also, on each page, for each program, there is usually a link for additional imformation. If I took the time to write in-depth info in an e-mail message, I would essentially be re-writing the web page. HTH,

Re: [Blind-Computing] games by Jim Kitchen

2008-01-14 Thread Rob Monitor
HI, The Jim Kitchen games are self voicing so you don't have to worry about them working they will work on just about any computer... ROB FROM MINNESOTA - Original Message - From: Rick Justice [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 10:38

[Blind-Computing] Help regarding my pen drive!

2008-01-14 Thread Mamta
Hello! I am trying to format my pen drive: this is the error message which I am getting, Please help me to solve this problem! I am pasting this message for you! (Formatting Removable Disk (J:) Windows cannot format this drive. Quit any disk utilities or other programs that are using this

Re: [Blind-Computing] More Word Woes

2008-01-14 Thread Patricia Dunbar
I fixed it by removing that anti-spywre someone recently posted and it is back to normal. I think the file in question is located in the recent folder, but nothing like that has ever happened before and I've used Office 2000 since 2001 and can't be dealing with messups right now for the sake of

[Blind-Computing] help with reading a document

2008-01-14 Thread Rosemarie Chavarria
Hi, everyone. I just download a voter regristeration form for our presidential primary election which is on February 5th but now I can't access it to be able to print it out. I'm using acrobat reader 5.0 but don't know what to do to access the document. Could I please get some help with

Re: [Blind-Computing] help with reading a document

2008-01-14 Thread Stu
You might need to get a newer version of adobe. Stu [EMAIL PROTECTED] IF YOU WORRY, YOU DIDN'T PRAY. IF YOU HAVE PRAYED, DON'T WORRY. - Original Message - From: Rosemarie Chavarria To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 12:55 PM Subject:

Re: [Blind-Computing] help with reading a document

2008-01-14 Thread Marilyn Walker
Have you considered upgrading to adobe reader 8? marilyn Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe

Re: [Blind-Computing] help with reading a document

2008-01-14 Thread Marilyn Walker
I think it is on the jaws users home page or you can go to adobe.com marilyn Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to

Re: [Blind-Computing] Blind-Computing Digest, Vol 33, Issue 3

2008-01-14 Thread David Ferrin
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Re: [Blind-Computing] NORMAL.DOT

2008-01-14 Thread Jacob Kruger
My hidden file viewing is in fact on, and if I check the file attributes of that specific file, it isn't actually marked as hidden, and when I now again did that search, it did in fact find it - who knows, maybe I was typing something wrong last time - LOL! (FWIW, I am/was in fact searching for

Re: [Blind-Computing] help with reading a document

2008-01-14 Thread Chris Hallsworth
Hi, I suggest you upgrade to at least 8.0, unless you have an earlier version of Windows. This may solve the problem of accessing forms. Hope that helps. At 18:55 14/01/2008, you wrote: Hi, everyone. I just download a voter regristeration form for our presidential primary election which is on

Re: [Blind-Computing] RAR Files

2008-01-14 Thread Rick Justice
Hi Marsha, .rar, is compressed file format, much like.zip You can use either WinRar, or 7zip, both of which can be found at: http://www.blind-computing.com/file_utilities/file_utilities.php HTH, Richard Q. Justice www.blind-computing.com - Original Message - From: Munchie Lady [EMAIL

[Blind-Computing] RAR Files

2008-01-14 Thread Munchie Lady
What are RAR files? What will open them? Marsha Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from

Re: [Blind-Computing] NORMAL.DOT

2008-01-14 Thread Patricia Dunbar
I guess this doesn't apply to me using Office 2000? Since I posted the problem with that normal popping up in the first place? I wonder if it happened because when the anti-spyware was being installed it asked me if I wanted to allow it to run some kind of report and analyze my computer and send

Re: [Blind-Computing] games by Jim Kitchen

2008-01-14 Thread torgersonenator
Hi Where does one down load the games? God bless, Mark God loves you! My ham radio lists. http://lists.topica.com/lists/funhamradio. http://groups.google.com/group/funhamradio-list MSS and MSP scripting list http://groups.google.com:80/group/msscripting?hl=en - Original Message - From:

[Blind-Computing] question about a folder on a external drive

2008-01-14 Thread Mich
hi all. I was looking around on one of my external drives today. When I terned it off windows said that it couldn't save a hole folder that I had and that the files were lost. The funny thing is that whenI went back and termed it on not more then 1 second later the folder and all the files

Re: [Blind-Computing] games by Jim Kitchen

2008-01-14 Thread Joseph Lee
Hi, Go to www.kitchensinc.net then go to the link that says, Click here for free Windows Text-to-speech games. Cheers, Joseph - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Date sent: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:56:30 -0800 Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] games

Re: [Blind-Computing] RAR Files

2008-01-14 Thread Chris Hallsworth
Hi, rar files are like zip files in that they contain files in a compressed format. The free utility 7-Zip will read and extract them. Hope that helps. At 22:17 14/01/2008, you wrote: What are RAR files? What will open them? Marsha Visit the JAWS Users List home page at:

Re: [Blind-Computing] NORMAL.DOT

2008-01-14 Thread Jacob Kruger
It might still be relevant. Not sure if this is relevant, but FWIW, some of those templates might contain some code snippets in a language specific to Office applications, called VBA (Visual Basic for Applications), and because of that, certain spyware/anti-virus programs might in fact sort of

[Blind-Computing] MP 3 TO WAVE?

2008-01-14 Thread Steve Crews
Hello, MY sighted brother just loaded several thousand songs and books onto my external hard drive. They are all in MP 3 format. I will eventually want to load them onto a ZEN STONE PLUS that I received for Christmas. But for now I would like to just create some CDs in WAVE format. I have

Re: [Blind-Computing] games by Jim Kitchen

2008-01-14 Thread Kerby Hill
you go to kitchensinc.net. Kerby - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 5:56 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] games by Jim Kitchen Hi Where does one down load the games? God bless, Mark God loves you! My

[Blind-Computing] blocking a web site

2008-01-14 Thread Melvin Reynolds
Is there a way to block web sites that you don't want people going to on your computer? If so how is it done. Thanks. Mel Teddy Nature delights in diversity, why don't humans? Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Address for the list archives:

Re: [Blind-Computing] blocking a web site

2008-01-14 Thread Nimer
What version of windows and IE are you using? Nimer J Melvin Reynolds wrote: Is there a way to block web sites that you don't want people going to on your computer? If so how is it done. Thanks. Mel Teddy Nature delights in diversity, why don't humans? Visit the JAWS Users List home

Re: [Blind-Computing] blocking a web site

2008-01-14 Thread Patricia Dunbar
can't it be done through the privacy or is it security tabs in tools/options within IE? - Original Message - From: Nimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 7:54 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] blocking a web site What version of

Re: [Blind-Computing] help with reading a document

2008-01-14 Thread Rosemarie Chavarria
Hi, Chris. I'll go to the programs page on the jaws users website and look at the acrobate reader 8. Thanks again for your help. Rosemarie - Original Message - From: Chris Hallsworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 2:11 PM Subject:

Re: [Blind-Computing] games by Jim Kitchen

2008-01-14 Thread Rosemarie Chavarria
Hi, Mark. I think this is the correct link to download the games. It's www.kitchensinc.net Hope this is right. Rosemarie - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 2:56 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] games by Jim

Re: [Blind-Computing] blocking a web site

2008-01-14 Thread Rick Justice
Hi Patricia, Close, I was just looking, and it appears that the privacy tab only gives control over cookie handling. The security tab, seems to control active x controls, and scripts, but, the content tab, allows you to control the type of internet content displayed on the computer. I didn't

Re: [Blind-Computing] blocking a web site

2008-01-14 Thread Patricia Dunbar
That's right...I played around with that one day just for fun being as no one uses this but me and it was a headache having to give a password as I remember to prevent going to a site I think it's set up for parents with kids which leaves me out, grins - Original Message - From: Rick

Re: [Blind-Computing] blocking a web site

2008-01-14 Thread Rick Justice
Yeah, I remember playing around with it several years ago, and it was some what of a pain. smile Richard Q. Justice www.blind-computing.com - Original Message - From: Patricia Dunbar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 10:31 PM Subject: Re:

Re: [Blind-Computing] RAR Files

2008-01-14 Thread Lali
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Re: [Blind-Computing] blocking a web site

2008-01-14 Thread Rick Justice
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Re: [Blind-Computing] games by Jim Kitchen

2008-01-14 Thread torgersonenator
Hi Thank you to all those who sent me the link to the web site. I am now happy playing computer golf. Smile. God bless, Mark God loves you! My ham radio lists. http://lists.topica.com/lists/funhamradio. http://groups.google.com/group/funhamradio-list MSS and MSP scripting list

Re: [Blind-Computing] MP 3 TO WAVE?

2008-01-14 Thread Negoslav Sabev
Hello By saying wave format, do you meen you want to burn audio CDs? If so, you don't need to convert them first if you have nero. Nero will do this for you. Negoslav - Original Message - From: Steve Crews [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Tuesday, January 15,

Re: [Blind-Computing] MP 3 TO WAVE?

2008-01-14 Thread Jacob Kruger
I use a program called Switch: http://www.nch.com.au/switch/index.html Basically it seems to be shareware, and also adds itself to the context menus for sound files, and can do various formats - sometimes needing to download the necessary codec the first time you try to implement a specific