[Blindtlk] One thing I'm tired of

Sun Aug 26 04:26:19 UTC 2012

Excellent advice, Ray.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
Behalf Of Ray Foret Jr
Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 11:05 AM
To: Blind Talk Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] One thing I'm tired of

Ah, now, that's a very subjective thing.  The Mac may be perfect for you;
but, to be honest, it may not be either.  That very much depends on what you
want to do.  Look, take some advice before you plunge.

1.  Decide exactly what you want your potentially new computer to do for
you.

2.  Take a good hard look at both the Mac and the new windows machines.
Decide, based on what you find out, exactly which direction you need to go
and then, once you've made a decition, don't mind what everybody else says.

To get yourself started looking at the Mac, I'd go here.

www.blindcooltech.com
and do a page search for "Mac demo" without the quotes.  These recordings
are, perhaps a little dated now, but, there's a lot of good basic Mac
navigation being demonstrated; and, you'll get a decent notion of what
you're in for.

Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!

Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!

Skype name:
barefootedray

On Aug 25, 2012, at 12:37 PM, "Nikki" <daizies304 at gmail.com> wrote:

>   Ray, would you suggest that I go mac?
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Ray Foret Jr
> Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 12:27 PM
> To: Blind Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] One thing I'm tired of
> 
> ANd yet, they charge over $1000.00 and make it impossible for a
finantially poor blind person to buy it?  Don't that make you wonder?  Oh
yeah, and they sue everybody and their brother if anybody but them uses any
name with the words freedom and scientific in it?  Hmm.  Seems to me it's
time for a new business moddel.
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
> 
> Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!
> 
> Skype name:
> barefootedray
> 
> On Aug 25, 2012, at 12:09 PM, David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com> wrote:
> 
>> Myself, and my AT staff have found JAWS (recent releases) to be somewhat
unstable.  Lockups are relatively common, and if anything it seems to be
getting worse with each update.
>> 
>> Dave
>> 
>> At 11:52 AM 8/25/2012, you wrote:
>>> Hello David and everyone,
>>> 
>>>   We're using JAWS 13. The problem is occurring in Windows XP and 7.
>>> 
>>> Peter Donahue
>>> 
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
>>> To: "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 11:48 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] One thing I'm tired of
>>> 
>>> 
>>> JAWS 10 was never designed to work with Windows 7.  This could be 
>>> causing some of your problems.
>>> 
>>> Dave
>>> 
>>> At 11:09 PM 8/24/2012, you wrote:
>>> >Ok. Phew! I'm not the only one experiencing issues with JAWS not 
>>> >responding. I think it's a number of things with my computer. #1. I 
>>> >have JAWS 10 on a windows 7 laptop. #2. I let a friend talk me into 
>>> >downloading all these different programs that will help speed up my 
>>> >computer. It helped, but started causing problems. It is quite 
>>> >frustrating to hear a chimed dialog box but nothing is said. The 
>>> >other day, as it was starting up, it had a starting windows repair 
>>> >window open saying not to turn off or restart the computer, but 
>>> >JAWS didn't say that. My 7 year old son read it to me and asked me 
>>> >if I wanted him to close the window. The computer would have been 
>>> >sitting here with that window open and I would have been getting 
>>> >upset and worried that my computer wasn't starting up properly. 
>>> >Right now, I have a window open for an adobe flash player update, 
>>> >but I don't know how to get to it. Occasionally JAWS will say, 
>>> >"update ready to be installed" and that's it. I have issues with 
>>> >Fire Fox as well. Every time I open it, I have to use the "alt tab" 
>>> >command twice in order to use the program. Sometimes, when I hit 
>>> >the applications key and scroll up to "send to," it will stop 
>>> >talking before or just after I reach it. IDK if there is an auto 
>>> >correct in Word 2007, but, I'll be typing along and I'll want to go 
>>> >back, re read what I just typed, and somehow my sentences were 
>>> >broken up and rearranged. It does it in my email as well.
>>> >I use Windows Live Mail because I don't know how to use gmail on 
>>> >the site. -----Original
>>> >Message----- From: Sherry Gomes Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 10:31 
>>> >PM To: 'Blind Talk Mailing List' Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] One thing 
>>> >I'm tired of I have that happen a lot with internet explorer 9, and 
>>> >it is the application, not jaws, because when everything starts up 
>>> >again, there's a message saying internet explorer stopped working. 
>>> >Outlook too, oh man, it hangs a lot, just freezes and locks up the 
>>> >whole darn computer, particularly first thing in the morning. 
>>> >-----Original Message----- From:
>>> >blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org
>>> >[mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Mike Freeman 
>>> >Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012
>>> >8:50 PM To: 'Blind Talk Mailing List' Subject:
>>> >Re: [Blindtlk] One thing I'm tired of Perhaps the application 
>>> >you're using has stopped responding for some reason. I find this 
>>> >happens periodically in windows 7. Mike -----Original
>>> >Message----- From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org 
>>> >[mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Nikki Sent: 
>>> >Friday, August 24, 2012 7:27 PM
>>> >To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org Subject: [Blindtlk] One
>>> >thing I'm tired of     In the middle of a task,
>>> >command, or navigating the net, JAWS just stops talking, sometimes 
>>> >with a stutter or short muffle. IDK what itï¿½s doing or why, but 
>>> >there are times when I end up turning offf or restarting. Sometimes 
>>> >I can get JAWS back on.
>>> >Any thoughts as to why this is happening?
>>> >_______________________________________________
>> 
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