Hi again folks, Yes, broadcasts can certainly be done. Nicecast from Rogue Amoeba http://rogueamoeba.com works extremely well. The only issue seems to be the effects scroll area, but I hope they'll be working on that. Otherwise, it works ridiculously well, in fact, and I have nothing to complain about.
I'm not exactly sure about your Thumbkey thing. I don't get it. If you can elaborate? Maybe I'm being dense here. :). As for VLC, I've never actually tried it out, and I personally love using Safari for web browsing. For me, everything is much faster. Also, which braille display are you using? Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Oct 21, 2009, at 10:22 AM, Tony Bernedal wrote: > > Hi again. > Wow. Echomac, never heard of it but when I google it I found > http://echomac.sourceforge.net/ > I'll try it when I'm back home from work. > Anouk, I had a fire dtv reciever and used it with dvb viewer on > windows and Eye tv have driver for it so I gave it a try but it > doesn't work as I want at the moment. > I have readiris on the disk and I'm going to try it out and see how it > works with swedish language and so on. > I have heard of some broadcast tools for mac but at the moment I > haven't looked in to it. I don't broadcast at the moment so it doesn't > have so high priority. I still have my studio pc sitting under the > desk so I can use stationplaylist and all the broadcast stuff if I > want to. > Regards Tony > > 2009/10/21, a radix <anou...@home.nl>: >> >> 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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