[stylist] Happy New Year
Amy McGarrah
amyemcgarrah at gmail.com
Thu Jan 2 13:15:07 UTC 2014
Hello April,
Happy new Year to you as well.
I'm glad to hear that the Braille is coming along.
Do you live anywhere near Maryland or DC? If so I might be able
to help both with the Braille and the Mac stuff as I am also a
Mac user.
Amy
----- Original Message -----
From: April Brown <aprilbrownshade at gmail.com
To: stylist at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 07:05:05 -0500
Subject: [stylist] Happy New Year
Happy New Year!
I haven't posted in several months. It seems the time has been
filled with doctors appointments.
I am learning braille, though it's a slow process. My goal for
this year is to read a braille book.
I not only have severe vision loss I have severe hearing loss as
well. So, listening to the talking books is more exhausting than
reading on the screen.
My Windows computer crashed twice and had to be reformatted
twice. We determined that cost wise, rather than buying all the
programs for Windows, It would be cheaper to buy a Mac Mini. I
lost probably a week reformatting my computer twice. I have
spent the last week learning how to use the Mac Mini. I have
found that Dictation works well in social media, and not badly on
e-mail. Though talking is exhausting. Sometimes it has trouble
understanding me.
Now using it in Pages is another matter. It seems to crash if I
work in a large file. Or, is it because the files were
originally written in Word? Somehow, dictation doesn't seem to
work nearly as well in Pages I am not sure why.
I am learning to use the speech command, although that too can
be exhausting. Listening for long times is not easy. I have
attempted to start using Voiceover. That program is really
overwhelming. Of course, I never did use keyboard commands, as
they confuse me. And the few that I did use are no longer
relevant.
So I haven't been writing much. Although I have worked on my
cookbook. It is coming along nicely.
Have a great day,
April Brown
Writing dramatic adventure novels uncovering the myths we hide
behind.
aprilbrownwrite at gmail.com
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/uncoveredmyths/
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