[Blindtlk] One thing I'm tired of
Ray Foret Jr
rforetjr at att.net
Sun Aug 26 05:35:07 UTC 2012
Thanks. Look, nothing wrong with putting a little effort in to what you may perhaps intend to do.
Sincerely,
The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!!
Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!!
Skype name:
barefootedray
On Aug 25, 2012, at 11:26 PM, "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:
> 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 it�s 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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