[Nfbmt] (no subject)

Fri Jan 10 17:14:11 UTC 2014

Hi Sheila.  I agree with you.  I very much prefer to type.  I only use the
touch screen  on my iphone because siri always screws up my dictation but it
is so cumbersome hitting each key three times to type a word.  I don't text
much any more because of it.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of sheila
Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 9:58 AM
To: NFB of Montana Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Nfbmt] (no subject)

hi to throw another oppinnion in to the mix, I'm not a fan of touch screens.
I like using a keyboard and I know you can get a keyboard for ipads but
don't know about iphones. Because I don't like touch screens, I don't see an
iphone in my future at least now.
On 1/10/2014 6:38 AM, Rebecca Stewart wrote:
> Hi Jim.  I am also an Iphone user.  I think you are probably directing 
> your message to me although you address everyone in your greeting, 
> it's not entirely clear to me.  I am an iphone user although I don't 
> think I've gotten as much training on it as all of you.  Dar was just 
> telling me yesterday of an ap that will give me tons of information 
> about using the Iphone which I've never heard of.  I have been 
> impressed with the things I've been doing on my Iphone and now I'm 
> learning from Dar that apparently there are many more things I can do 
> with it.  I'll have to pursue learning about that ap some time in the
future.
> Becca
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of James 
> Aldrich
> Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2014 8:38 PM
> To: nfbmt at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Nfbmt] (no subject)
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'd say we have compared notes and asked questions and discussed many 
> things through the years since we've known each other for some time.
> This has helpped.  I too had some help with the PC from a friend but 
> have pretty much gone on my own and learned what I know today.
>
> I'll briefly say Dan Burke, Dar and myself are the only ones who 
> actively use the IPhone other than yourself.  We certainly would be 
> happy to share what we know!
>
> Jim
>
>
> Original message:
>> When I was mentioning Microsoft Word, I was thinking of Sheila 
>> because I don't remember if she has that on her computer or not.
>> Were you able to get the information I sent you about the fact sheets?
>> I can't speak for Bruce, but I can tell you that I went to a school 
>> for the blind at a young age and got a good grounding in Braille 
>> there.  Bruce grew up in the same town as the blind school in 
>> California, and his parents refused to send him there.  As far as 
>> cooking is concerned, I am pretty much self-taught.  My mom was 
>> afraid to let me in the kitchen for fear I'd burn the place down.  
>> Truth was she didn't have the patience to teach me what she knew.  It 
>> was just easier for her to do it herself.  She was a good cook, too.  
>> So I got out on my own and learned through trial and error.  I didn't 
>> get training in cooking.  When I was old enough, the home ec class at 
>> the high school didn't know how to incorporate me, and the one at the 
>> blind school didn't exist because there weren't enough of us.  I went 
>> to public school my last two years of high school and I don't know if 
>> there would have been time for home ec then.  I would have loved it, 
>> though.  It seems funny to me that my mom had the attitude she did 
>> about me in the kitchen, because in every other way I was treated as 
>> normally as possible and expected to do chores and have 
>> responsibilities and be just a regular kid.  My parents even moved to 
>> the same town where the blind school is, so that I could go to school
> every day and come home and be with my family in my neighborhood at 
> night like every other kid.
>
>> I had known typing since something like second or third grade because 
>> we were taught it in school, so jumping to computers was relatively 
>> easy, especially in the Dos days before Windows.  As new things have 
>> come along, I have learned a few things by having a computer expert 
>> familiar with screen readers come and show me a few things to get me 
>> started, but now I learn more by reading tutorials and just trying
things.
>> Have they said why they don't want you to come to CCB?  That doesn't 
>> seem in character for them.  Maybe your application is just taking a
> while.
>
>> Maybe the reason Bruce and I do as well as we do is because we have to.
>> Necessity is the mother of invention.  Nobody is here to do things 
>> for us, so we have had to figure out ways of doing them ourselves.  
>> You learn how to do certain things after a lifetime of living a 
>> certain way.  I suppose you could call it immersion training.  Joy 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Rebecca 
>> Stewart
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 8:22 PM
>> To: 'NFB of Montana Discussion List'
>> Subject: Re: [Nfbmt] (no subject)
>> Hi Joy.  I have Word 2013 in my computer.  No.  I'm sure the problem 
>> lies with the operator.  I'm not very good at using a computer.  I 
>> had hoped to learn better computer skills and so much more at CCB 
>> since they offer all of that but for some reason they appear to not 
>> want me to come to CCB so I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm in 
>> quite a pickle.  I don't know how to use a computer beyond a few 
>> things my friend showed me, I can't read Braille and I'm not very 
>> competent at cooking.  These are all things I had hoped to get at 
>> CCB.  Did you get
> training at CCB or some other school for the blind?
>> Just tell me if it's none of my business.  I'm curious because you 
>> and Bruce are both blind.  It must be difficult for you guys to 
>> manage unless one or both of you received training.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Nfbmt [mailto:nfbmt-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Bruce&Joy 
>> Breslauer
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2014 6:53 PM
>> To: 'NFB of Montana Discussion List'
>> Subject: Re: [Nfbmt] (no subject)
>> I'm wondering if, since these are in Microsoft Word and you don't 
>> have that on your computer, (I don't think), that's why you can't access
them.
>> Otherwise, I don't have any other bright ideas.  But we got it solved 
>> anyway.  Joy
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