Cheree: Hi and congrats. It's always nice to hear from people who find good help, not to mention people who win things. Glad you have a good one to one team available to you. Take care Carolyn ch:) On Sep 4, 2010, at 10:46 PM, Cheree Heppe wrote:
> Cheree Heppe here: > > Just to prove that amazing things do happen to people, I won an IPad in a > contest. > > I took the IPad to the Mac Store in Portland, Oregon for some assistance > operating it and getting it started in VoiceOver, and have made tremendous > progress using it and in synching the IPad with my NetBook. > > It amazes me that my NetBook, the wireless keyboard and the IPad all fit into > this little Columbia Sports bag that might in an earlier day held make-up. > > The guys at the Portland, Oregon store invite any blind person in the area to > come and investigate Apple computers and IPads. They said they will show > people how to operate the devices and let people play and learn. > > The Apple Corporate store is also very helpful, but the Mac Store has more > one on one availability, at least at this point. > > That IPad now has every bit of music I ever put on my NetBook, quite a few > Gigs worth, it turns out and is playing the whole lot, making very > interesting juxtapositions. > > The Mac Store sells a wider variety of accessories for Apple products than > the Corporate store. I found a lovely leather case for the IPad. The case > looks like a leather book or folio that, if you didn't look too closely at > the "pages," would seem to have fallen right out of the sixteenth or > seventeenth century library in some noble house. > > They also sell a stand that looks like nothing so much as a modern book > stand, like what old dictionaries and such sit upon. This stand is > lightweight metal, gray, not packable in my little Columbia bag and more of a > desk item, but multi-positionable from mirror-type vertical to table-top > flatness, great for all of our tapping and swishing gestures. This stand > would be great for elevating the IPad at a table where people were eating, > preventing the device from being on the level of the plates and glasses. It > would be lovely positioned in a kitchen for quickly looking up the weather or > recipes or playing music, but as long as I have a teenager in this house, > that's where it's never going. > > > Regards, > Cheree Heppe > > -- > 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. > > -- 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.
