Hi, Well, I believe EchoLink does exist on the Mac-side as EchoMac, last I heard and extremely accessible.
As for using Windows, it's all probably about taking the plunge to a new operating system and letting go of Windows. I've pretty much completed that step, but there is only one minor thing. Mudding. That is the only thing I actually do on Windows now. I did hear the developer of the MUD-client Atlantis might be adding VoiceOver support, hopefully. Otherwise I'll just use Terminal. I use VUScan and ReadIris for my scanning needs. As for virtual machines, mine runs quite efficiently. It all depends how you have set the ram allocation. Make sure not to set it too high, otherwise memory swapping will occur. A good idea is to test different setups before installing any screen reader licenses such as authorization keys for JAWS and so-forth. Otherwise when changing the ram for your Windows machine, JAWS will think it is a new computer and require you to reactivate. Window-Eyes is probably the same way. Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Oct 21, 2009, at 9:16 AM, Tony Bernedal wrote: > > Hi Anouk. > I have also used my mac for around 3 months now, and like you I still > use windows for a couple of things. I trying to get the scanning and > ocr to work on the mac but for now windows and omnipage have to do the > jobb. I had a license for windows xp lying on the shelf from a no > longer working laptop and I installed xp with vmware as a virtual > machine and doing my scanning there and it works good but the virtual > machine is very slow. I also use windows for Echolink, wich is a > ham-radio software wich don't exist on the mac. Also the software to > setup and program my hamradio stations is only windows programs. I'm > very happy mac user now and after some updates to snow leopard my > problems with it is gone. > I hope the issue with the thumbkey on your display can be solved. I > have same issue with alva satelite. > I also have a battle with EyeTV software wich for some odd reason > doesn't find my tv channels on the cable network. And it is also very > tricky to use with VO. I use VLC for webradio and movies and it works > great (vlc version 1.x doesn't work under windows and linux at all > with screenreader, only on mac, great!). > And I also like the speed, starting my windows pc here at works take > forever and the mac is at the desktop in almost 0 time. And, the sleep > works well too. > So I'm happy with my mac system. > Good luck with your mac! > Regards Tony > > 2009/10/21, a radix <anou...@home.nl>: >> Hello, I have been using my mac for about 2 months now especially >> at school >> although at home I still often use my pc and I will explain below >> why. In >> general my experiences with the mac have been very positive >> especially after >> installing snow leopard. I can use skype and msn just as well as on >> my pc. >> And after I dumped itunes and started using vlc instead watching >> movies and >> listening to music became a breeze. I recently bought apples office >> suite >> because I prefer that over using textedit or the free text editors/ >> office >> suits that are available. I am also intending to go and use garage >> band in >> the future if I can get that working with my yamaha keyboard. I >> like the >> built-in speakers and sound quality alhtough listening through its >> sound >> output with my own in ear monitors is nothing special. I still find >> using >> the internet on the mac a bit mor ework then i did while using my >> pc and it >> goes a bit slower also when reading docucments i notice that I cannot >> endlessly use the right thumb key on my braille display to continue >> reading, >> eventually i have to press the right arrow on my normal keyboard if >> I want >> to read onm. This does become irritating after a while if you need >> to read >> long documents. >> At home I still mostly use my windows pc although i now have gotten >> mail >> working on the mac as well because 1. I use omnipage pro 16 under >> windows to >> scan my books for school, while I know that there are some scanning >> solutions for the mac that i will probbably try once the hp drivers >> for sl >> have been released I just dont know if they will be as good and >> easy as >> using omnipage pro 16 and am a bit hesistant to try it because of >> that (I >> really really hope that a full version of finereader will >> eventually be >> released for the mac since I have heard it can rival omnipage pro). >> Secondly there is filesharing, i will be brief. Ftp does work on >> the mac >> with transmit which I rather like although I have not registered it >> yet, >> questions i asked its support team went unanswered. Usenet also >> works but >> udner windows I preferred to use other programs which are not >> available on >> the mac. >> The third point is playing games which I do a lot on the pec >> especially >> interactive fiction and muds. There is an interpreter for interactive >> fiction called zoom which I tried and although I can open games >> with it >> saved games were a problem for me since I could not open a saved >> game file >> (made in frotz). >> For muds the situation on the mac is not so good, I play them all >> the time >> on windows but there is only one mudclient that I know of which >> works under >> sl and which is still being developed, jamochamud which works under >> java. It >> is not too accessible at the moment but the programmer has promised >> to look >> at it, still it does not offer all the features even then that I am >> used to >> on a windows client. >> As soon as windows 7 becomes officially available I am planning to >> install >> it on my mac (probbably via bootcamp) so that I at least can use my >> mac all >> the time even if I need to use windows, hopefully for the scanning >> and >> downloading tasks I will in the future be able to use the mac and I >> have >> hopes for muds as well but for now at least my mac is mostly used >> at school >> and in the library. >> Greetings, Anouk, >>> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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