DO not use parallels, it pretty much sucks the big one in terms of performance
and fusion is much more accessible.
Also, audio is not a problem under fusion. I'm not sure what you heard but I
run tons of apps under fusion at the same time as apps on the Mac and no
problems. Streaming, the TTS for jfw, music, no problems at all.
Next, installing windows is pretty easy. Just follow the prompts in
fusion and you'll be good to go enough to start the internal tts with windows
which will get you going enough to install JFW or Window-eyes (insert your
screen reader of choice).
Enjoy
Scott
On Oct 13, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Brent Harding wrote:
> Hi there. I've been looking at running Windows on my Mac to play a couple
> games and maybe to do a little streaming, probably with Stationplaylist. I
> heard Sara's demo of Fusion and how incredibly bad the audio was almost like
> a buffered stream or something. Is Parallels any better in this regard? How
> is switching between Mac and the Windows virtual machine handled with
> Parallels, and will it create conflicts with Jaws in hot key assignments?
> This thing gave me trouble with trying Boot Camp under SL before, it's
> probably from late 2007 or 08 and when it tells you to restart with the
> Windows disk, it does, but stays on a blank screen with a flashing cursor and
> no error no matter how long you wait, with two different XP disks, C on
> startup, or any other way of telling it to boot from CD I know of. I called
> Apple about this awhile ago, but they won't help me because the warranty I
> had (all 6 months of it) when I got the thing used on Ebay was done for
> anyways. There's no Apple store in my area. Is there any other way to force
> windows xp down this thing since it's the laptop I have and the need is still
> around for software that is Win only? I know it's definitely Intel, or it
> says it is, never know with stuff you buy used, but it should be. Will I get
> the multiple streams or whatever they call that where Jaws can mix with
> whatever else I'm doing, running Parallels if I went that way? My dad
> suggested that as he knew a guy for this company whose been using that for
> awhile now. I don't know that they do much audio from the Windows side, but I
> don't know how to take the HD out, stick it in a PC, and install Win XP on
> the second partition that way to force it to do what Apple says is supported.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jonathan Cohn" <jon.c.c...@gmail.com>
> To: <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 4:57 PM
> Subject: Re: general Mac questions / Captchas
>
>
>> I don't have an answer for this, but I wonder... VO-Shift-M on a
>> picture will bring up a contextual menu. Could one put a send image
>> to Abby Reader as an acttion in there?
>> That would solve this problem.
>> Jon
>>
>>
>>>> My next question is regarding using the Web. Captchas-need I say more? On
>>>> the Windows side, one would remedy this problem by downloading and using
>>>> Firefox with the Web Visum plug-in, which performed OCR on the captcha
>>>> image
>>>> and placed it on the clipboard for convenient pasting into the
>>>> appropriate
>>>> edit box. Also, if you didn't wish to use Firefox, there was usually an
>>>> audio alternative. I am trying to create an iChat account on the Mac.
>>>> Naturally, this requires the use of the AOL web site. Before I can
>>>> proceed
>>>> to create my account, the web site requires that a captcha be entered.
>>>> Although they provide an audio alternative, Safari is completely unable
>>>> to
>>>> use it and the link (upon checking) is java scripted. I know that Firefox
>>>> is
>>>> not at all accessible on the Mac side (at least from the information I
>>>> received on this list), so are there any alternatives for captchas? Also
>>>> web-related, how do I go about obtaining Webkit-as some seem to think this
>>>> a
>>>> better web browsing solution in general? Your contributions, time, and
>>>> patience are appreciated.
>>>> Thanks:)
>>>> Robert Hooper
>>>> hooper...@buckeyemail.osu.edu<mailto:hooper...@buckeyemail.osu.edu>
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