Hey Tony, Nice to hear from you! (the world is a small place) Funny we started our mac journey at the seem time. I am curious, can you broadcast on the mac? I guess otsjuke wont work and obiously shoutcast wont either. I was thinking of running windows with vmware but now I am just thinking to ask my brother to help me install windows 7 via bootcamp instead. Has anyone got experience with installing windows via bootcamp as dual boot? Is it diffucult? I presume the drivers for windows 7 for the macbook pro will be available from apple? I still want to try vuescan an dreadiris, in fact i have the programs on my computer bu tI want to wait till hp releases the drivers for my scanner that are native to sl, also I hope by that time abbyy will have released a demo of finereader for the mac that is native to sl. I am just concerned that either adf wont work, scanning iwll be very slow or dutch character recognition wont be as good as omnipage. I am surprised that you also have the thumbkey problem, i thought it was something stupid on my part, corrupt install whatever. I guess we will both have to mail apple accessibility about this. So, you are using a tv tuner with your mac? This is the next thing i want to taccle since now I have an analog tv standing on my desk and it is taking up space that I could use otherwise. I did have digital tv in the past bu tI had a lot of trouble with it and in the end just went back to analog. There are not that many tuners for the mac I think (analog or otherwise) and I guess even less that are available in Europe. Which do you use? I guess as long as I get one with a remote things will be ok (if it indeed can find the channels). I too LOVE the sleep features of the mac, i never turn mine off, just close the lid and thats it. Greetings, Anouk, ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tony Bernedal" <t...@bernedal.net> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:16 AM Subject: Re: my 2 months with a mac
> > 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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