Hi, Oh, I guess it wouldn't be. Window Eyes is more like a serial you enter I think. That's nice. Well, JAWS doesn't like it for obvious reason, but it can be annoying.
Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Oct 21, 2009, at 11:21 AM, Portia wrote: > > Hello, > > Nope, Window-Eyes isn't like that. > > Nicolai Svendsen wrote: >> 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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