Hi list, Please let me introduce myself in my first message here. The person who brought this list to my attention is Anouk Radix, also a list member, and a friend of mine here in Holland.
I'm Paul Erkens from the Netherlands, 38, blind from birth, and very excited about the mac since I went through all the podcasts on it, on www.blindcooltech.com done by Mike Arrigo, and another few on www.maccessibility.net. I'm still waiting for my macbook pro to arrive, and each time the door bell rings, I hope it is my mac finally arriving. I'm waiting for 2 weeks now. . My background is some visual basic for dos programming, along with some assembly language for the 80386 family of processors. That was all way back in the nineties. I've always been an i t enthousiast, and I'm a windows user since 1995 or so. I use a computer for every day tasks, but on top of that, I use it to create music. Sometimes compositions I create for my own leasure, but mostly backing tracks for interested parties wanting a little demo cd that they sing on. I have a kidney disease, and I'm on dialyses. During these treatments, 4 hours each day except on Saturdays, I have my hands and mind free to explore the new mac world. After some 20 podcasts even without having the mac myself so far, I do believe I'm going to love it. The way Voice Over works, as it leaves what you want to read in your own hands, rather than deciding what is important on the screen. The new operating system, based on unix, and its smooth work flow. What excites me most of all is rather a lot. To mention a few: I think I'm going to love to be able to get out of trouble if my mac can't start from its internal drive. Booting from an external u s b drive from super duper is fabulous, as is the ability to have speech during o s installations or upgrades. Running xp as a task on the mac by using fusion, is another thing I'm looking forward to. Pro tools is something I will want to explore to the best of my ability, as that will expand my musical possibilities even further than they are for now. I'm a documentation lover, so I'll have more than enough to explore in the months to come. I heard a podcast on maccessibility.net about pro tools becoming accessible in April next year, and I'm very much looking forward to laying my hands on it. I hope it will be a smoother experience than I daily have in sonar for windows. With an open mind to all that is new, I'm hoping to be a part of this community soon. Regarding this list, here's a question. To make it possible for a message rule to sort all mail coming from this list into its own mail folder, is there any way for an email program to recognize mac visionaries messages? The mail I see from here, seems to come from the individual senders of the messages, rather than from one list server. Similarly, I can't think of a way to recognize mac visionary messages by tag in the subject field, because there is none. How do you folks deal with this? Interested to know. Best, Paul. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
