Hi Gigi, Thanks for sending me all this. I felt pretty confident that the Edge would be a good choice, but am glad to hear that it is working so well for you. I think I'll move ahead as soon as I can sell my Alva. Cheers, Donna On Mar 6, 2013, at 5:51 PM, Eugenia Firth <gigifi...@me.com> wrote:
> Hi Donna > I have a braille Edge 40, and I like it a lot. What offhand, I can't think > of anything except one little small thing. If you use the Bluetooth option, > and then you switch to the USB option to put it on your Mac, there is this > Weird thing where you can't go with the space G option to grade to an > computer braille. I got around this by usingeither the Bluetooth option most > of the time. I think they'll fix that eventually. > I guess the only other small thing that I can think of what offhand has > nothing to do with the Mac or the iPhone or any iOS device. If you use the > standalone option for writing and reading files, there is a slight bug for > displaying with BRF files. If you tell the braille edge that you don't want > to see special characters, every now and then you will get displayed what > appears to be a blank line. This is more noticeable in web braille files. I > just go right past it and keep going. > You can easily go back and forth between the braille edge and the map, and > then that never knows you left. The little card that is inside the Burlage > can be put into the slot in a MacBook Pro, and it works real good. The only > thing is, it will put these weird little files in there that I ignore most of > the time, but you can delete them. They are very obvious, and I have been > told that it is the Macintosh computer that is putting the files on there. > > If you want one, I think you will be doing yourself a good thing by getting a > Bralinch. I'm glad I got mine. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Mar 6, 2013, at 7:33 AM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm considering purchasing a Braille Edge from HIMS, which I would like to >> pair with my Mac, and my i-devices (iPhone, iPod). Could anyone using that >> display drop me a line and let me know what you think of it, and how well it >> works with these devices? Is there anything about it that doesn't work well? >> >> Thanks for any info you can provide. >> Best, >> Donna >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
