Yes, but it does not fit into a laptop case, or at least none in mine.  

Rose Combs
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-----Original Message-----
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2015 1:03 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Taking notes for meeting, Mac or iPad?

This is my point, a regular usb keyboard, and it is still on about the most 
efficient way to type freely as secretary at a meeting.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Neal Ewers" <neal.ew...@ravenswood.org>
To: <viphone@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 10:48 PM
Subject: RE: Taking notes for meeting, Mac or iPad?


What about a regular 101 key USB keyboard? Sorry, Now I have likely made this 
off topic.

Neal


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From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Rose Combs
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 4:22 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Taking notes for meeting, Mac or iPad?

I feel your pain, I am doing a project at church in a few weeks and they asked 
if I had a laptop, I do, and at home I connect a 
wireless keyboard.  However, if I were to carry it around with me not an option 
and I am constantly hitting the touch pad on a 
Lenovo laptop and sending it to who knows where, I hate how far the keyboard is 
back, makes me lean forward and I keep resting the 
palm of either hand on the stupid thing,  On the Toshiba my husband had, very 
old, I could turn that off with function key 9, can't 
seem to do it on the Lenovo with any key, not even through the control panel, 
maybe it can be done, but so far not by me.

I'd much rather type notes etc. but for now it looks like I will learn the 
Focus 14 commands which I did not have time for last 
spring when I bought the device and braille.  I love braille, don't get me 
wrong, however, in the past nearly 40 years I have typed 
8 hours or more a day,  brailed just maybe a couple of times a week or less.  I 
once was very fast but now am not, especially on 
tiny keys on a braille display.  Well have to devote time to this instead of 
other things to make it work for me, I use the Focus 
minimally thus far as I was working full time in the spring, transitioning to a 
new company not by my choice, then ill, was 
terminated and am now retired earlier than I wished to be.

Any display users, especially of the Focus are welcome to contact me at 
roseco...@q.com

I read braille perfectly, recognize mistakes easily but, these little keys are 
going to be my downfall.  I used a Braille note for 
years, loved it but, probably will need something I can use where others can 
see what is happening is the reason I was asked about a 
laptop or I device.  My iPad is wifi only and bought just at the end of its 
cycle in early September 2013 as a present after I 
taught my husband how to use one with VO and zoom for him not me.  He bought me 
a mini after that and just before new announcements 
were made.  First gen so although I use it at home, it isn't going anywhere and 
his was donated to a friend who spent months on a 
ventilator unable to talk but very much mentally with it.  I helped set it up 
so it could talk for him after my husband passed a 
year ago in the spring.
So choice now looks like either hooking the Focus to the laptop via Bluetooth, 
if I can or using my iPhone which would be less to 
carry.
My Braille note is an mPower, and if no one needed to see what I was doing, and 
if I could get it to connect to my home network so I 
could load it easier it would be my choice.

I still use it but cannot get it to connect to anything even with a network 
card these days.  Never truly worked well in that regard 
anyway.  However, makes it useless as an e-mail client also and probably would 
not open the documents I will be sent.
Long story as to why I did not upgrade it, let's just say HW and I are no 
longer friendly.

Rose Combs
roseco...@q.com
A picture may be worth a thousand words but it takes up three times the memory!


-----Original Message-----
From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of 
Mary Otten
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2015 11:06 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com; macvisionar...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Taking notes for meeting, Mac or iPad?

I have been asked to substitute as a minutes take her for an upcoming meeting. 
I used to do this on a PC laptop in MS Word with 
complete confidence and competence. However, that laptop is long since gone and 
buried.
At this point, my choices are to use my eye pad with a Bluetooth keyboard and 
pray that I don't get bit by the Bluetooth bug in iOS 
9, choosing among apps such as voice dream writer or the new notes app. Or I 
could borrow my husbands 11 inch MacBook air, with 
which I am not that familiar, and use something like text at it. Neither 
prospect is exciting. I'm looking for something that is 
going to be reliable and foolproof. As in me being a fool and screwing up their 
minutes. What do people think would be the easiest 
thing to do the most foolproof thing? This is, assuming I don't get the 
Bluetooth bug that wipes out my iPad? Most about using the 
MacBook is hitting that darned oversized touchpad and ending up somewhere where 
I really don't want to be and not having a clue how 
to get back where I need to be in the text writing app.
Mary

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