[Blindtlk] /Monopoly

[Judy Jones]

Hi, Mark,

Please don't feel badly.  We all started someplace - at the beginning.  The 
first question I remember asking a tech person once I got a computer is, "My 
computer isn't working, where do I start?"

A URL is the address of a web site.  It begins with a form of the letters 
http, sometimes https, then colon, two forward slashes, then most times WWW 
dot whatever the rest of the address is.  Not all addresses have the www 
after the slashes, but the majority do.  When you are on a web page and you 
want to know what its address is with JAWS you press alt D, and your machine 
will read it to you.  Then you can copy it to your clipboard if you want to 
send it to someone, paste it in Facebook, send it to someone in an e-mail, 
whatever.

I hope this didn't further confuse you, but don't worry if it did.  Keep on 
asking any questions.

Judy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Tardif" <markspark at roadrunner.com>
To: "Blind Talk Mailing List" <blindtlk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] /Monopoly


> Mike, I hate to sound like a complete idiot, but this is part of the 
> problem, my ignorance.  I hate to admit it in this group, but I don't even 
> no what a URL is, so I can't tell you.  God I hate looking stupid like 
> this, but this is part of the frustration.  Everyone else seems to know 
> this stuff, I feel like I'm from the dark ages.  Is this a 64 bit machine? 
> I think so.  I know this version of JAWS is 64 bits.  All I know is that 
> with my old clunker of a machine and XP, it was so much easier to do some 
> of this stuff.  I have been struggling ever since I got this thing.
>
>
>
> Mark Tardif
> Nuclear arms will not hold you.
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Mike Freeman
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 7:12 PM
> To: 'Blind Talk Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] /Monopoly
>
> Mark:
>
> I can't help you on the game but if you'll give me a URL, I'll see if I 
> can download it.
>
> Don't be so hasty to vilify windows 7. There are a few features that are 
> different and, therefore, take some getting used to by an inveterate XP 
> aficionado. However, there are some features in Windows 7 that are very 
> handy. It may not be Windows 7 at all: is your machine a 64-bit machine? 
> Do you know if the Monopoly game will work on 64-bit systems?
>
> Let's put our thinking caps on.
>
> Mike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blindtlk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On 
> Behalf Of Mark Tardif
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2012 6:39 PM
> To: NFB of Florida Internet Mailing List; Blind Talk Mailing List
> Subject: [Blindtlk] /Monopoly
>
> Hello, friends,
>
> I’m going to “lower the boom”, so to speak.  Any of you familiar with Jim 
> Kitchen and his text to speech games?  Those of you on these lists who 
> have heard me whining about Windows 7 and how limited I think it is and 
> are sick and tired of it, please feel free to tweet me out if there is a 
> tweet filter.  Jim Kitchen has wonderful free games, including my all-time 
> favorite, monopoly.  Yes, I am probably addicted.  Anyway, I have been 
> trying and trying to download it properly and I have become convinced that 
> it is not workable with Windows 7.  Of course it is possible that my 
> settings are off, which would be nothing new with this machine, I suppose 
> that’s what you get when you purchase a computer at Wal-Mart.  When I try 
> to unzip files, I get weird messages such as “can’t create an output file 
> and it doesn’t work.  I challenge anyone to tell me that this is workable. 
> Don’t mind my tone, I’m just frustrated that the idiots at Microsoft 
> inadvertently limited us this way.  So, do you have any ideas, and if not, 
> does anyone know of a talking speech-friendly monopoly game?  Also, does 
> anyone know how to get autocomplete on Windows live mail.  Thank you, 
> before my JAWS runs out.
> Mark Tardif
> Nuclear arms will not hold you.
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