[Nfbmt] (no subject)

Fri Jan 10 22:52:21 UTC 2014

Hi Rebecca,

Yes!  I did address the entire list!  You certainly can be counted to 
be among the happy IPhone users here!  I was simply saying  when you 
have IPhone questions, you can turn to Dan, Dar and myself to get 
answers to many of your questions. I'm certain there are others in this 
state who use IPhones but they aren't on this list presently! You have 
the right to be pleased with every milestone you reach in your learning 
of the phone.  It is better to learn at your pace and learn everything 
well rather than feel you must compete with everyone!  The IPhone is a 
complex device and it has many uses!  I'm still discovering new things 
which can be accomplished with this phone.  You may use your phone 
differently than how I use mine and that's okay! Dar and I both like 
the VO Tutorial from the LookTel People.  I believe it will help you 
learn many IPhone Basics in a pleasant and fun way!  I wish I would 
have had that app when I first got started.  This is the same people 
who developed the LookTell Money Reader you have used for some time now!

Please feel free to contact us when you have questions!

Jim

Original message:
> 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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