[Electronics-talk] New Victor Stream and Newsline

[Jim Barbour]

Hey Tracy,

I'm glad you like the new stream and its newsline feature.

Unfortunately, I wanted to let you know that you'll probably not be
able to use your stream on hotel or coffee shop wifi.  In order to use
these public wifi services, the device connecting to the wifi needs to
bring up a web page and let you agree to their terms of service.
Unfortunately, the stream doesn't have any way to do this.

The best I've been able to do with my stream, away from home and work,
is to tether if off my cell phone.

Again, I'm glad you like the new stream.

Jim

On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 08:21:03AM -0400, Tracy Carcione wrote:
> Humanware recently put out an upgrade to the new Victor Stream so that it
> can connect to Newsline and Bookshare.  I connected mine to Newsline
> yesterday, and thought people might be interested to hear about it.
> I read the relevant section of the manual twice, and the FAQ, but I still
> had to call the charmers at Humanware tech support to get it working.  It
> didn't take them long to straighten me out, though.
> The Stream stays connected until I turn off "airplane mode", so I can just
> hit the online button to switch between the SD bookshelf and the online
> bookshelf.  I put a couple newspapers and a couple magazines in my "Newsline
> in your pocket", and there they all are, sitting on my online bookshelf.  I
> can open whichever I want and skip around the headers, just as I would with
> any other publication I had downloaded.  I can copy the "book" to my SD
> card, so I will still have it when I go offline.  It only took 1 or 2
> seconds to copy the latest Braille Monitor, for instance.
> I really like it.  Yesterday, I sat around at lunchtime, reading the paper.
> Today, I'm going to copy it to the SD, so I can read it while I'm waiting at
> an appointment.  Next week, my husband and I are taking a short vacation.
> I'm going to try logging into the hotel's wifi and getting the paper, so I
> can lounge around drinking coffee and reading the newspaper, as so many
> other people do, but I've never done. And, if the papers are ready early
> enough, I can snag it before I go out to catch my bus to work, and read the
> paper on the bus, as other commuters do.  It's great!
> Tracy
> 
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