[Dtb-talk] learning ally is there a trick to it?

[Dan Burke]

Mike, glad to hear it works well on Windows.

Jim, very interesting that Learning Ally moved ahead without bringing
its Mac clients with it ... once again.

Working in higher ed the past few years, there was a pretty sharp rise
in students coming to college with Macs.  What a relief when there was
finally a downloader for the Mac ...

Dan


On 3/5/12, Mike Freeman <k7uij at panix.com> wrote:
> Can't quarrel with that.
>
> Mike Freeman
> sent via iPhone
>
>
> On Mar 5, 2012, at 13:37, Jim Barbour <jbar at barcore.com> wrote:
>
>> Yeah, but it's gui based and only runs on windows.  This is probably
>> good for the 80%, not so much for me <grin>
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 01:33:46PM -0800, Mike Freeman wrote:
>>> Actually, the new download manager isn't bad once one gets used to it. It
>>> will let you download to external devices such as the Stream directly if
>>> you wish.
>>>
>>> Mike Freeman
>>> sent via iPhone
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 5, 2012, at 13:24, Dan Burke <burke.dall at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You have to use their download manager.  You can't download it like an
>>>> NLS book.
>>>>
>>>> At least not with the old system.  As for the new system, it looks
>>>> more like a web-managed sort of thing when I briefly took a look at
>>>> it.  I decided to go the route of the RFBD download manager since I
>>>> don't see myself downloading much from Learning Ally now that I'm out
>>>> of higher ed.
>>>>
>>>> Dan
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 3/5/12, Jim Barbour <jbar at barcore.com> wrote:
>>>>> You'll need some kind of book downloader.  The web server hands you a
>>>>> file that contains a list of files and their URLs.  Some software on
>>>>> your machine, usually the book downloader" has to take that file and
>>>>> download the pieces and concatenate them together.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've written some perl to do this on Linux machines, and I suspect it
>>>>> would also work on Macs.  Please email me if you're interested.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jim
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 12:23:19PM -0800, Mike Gilmore wrote:
>>>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd like to download some stuff from Learning Ally's web site. When I
>>>>>> go
>>>>>> to download something, it opens a new window and there's some book
>>>>>> manager
>>>>>> program or something that needs to be downloaded. Is there ar eason
>>>>>> why we
>>>>>> can't download them like we would an NLS book and then put it in the
>>>>>> DTB
>>>>>> folder on the Stream? Is there a trick or shortcut that I'm missing?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mike
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