Trying To Keep JuiceReceiver Alive

2013-03-12 Thread Kane Brolin
Maybe this is the same psychology that compels someone to wear the same pair of slippers for years and years ... but I still love the JuiceReceiver podcatcher program, and I have kept it with me through several computers and a few different operating systems. It even worked great, surprisingly e

Re: Clarifying My Problem With Laptop's Not Recording Sound Card Output

2011-10-27 Thread Kane Brolin
On 10/27/11, Steve Jacobson wrote: > Are you now using Windows 7 and have your past successful experiences been > with Windows XP? ... There are things about Windows 7 that I > don't completely understand. For example, I've accidentally had Eloquence > come > out of my headphones while Windows

Clarifying My Problem With Laptop's Not Recording Sound Card Output

2011-10-27 Thread Kane Brolin
On 10/27/11, Brett Boyer wrote: > is it that you are not able to see stereo mix in your sound control > dialog box? Yes, Brett, this is indeed part of the problem. In all the reading I had done about laptops and direct sound recording, a consistent message seems to indicate that I need to specif

Any JAWS Scripts For I-Sound Recorder?

2011-10-22 Thread Kane Brolin
Hello. Not long ago I wrote to the BlindReplay list and to this list asking for solutions in respect to why I am not able to capture audio output directly from my Dell Precision notebook's sound card in Replay AV. Having received no answer from either list, I did some digging and discovered that

Trouble Recording From Sound Card With Latest Replay AV

2011-10-18 Thread Kane Brolin
Hello. I am a blind user of Applian's Replay Suite, and not long ago I installed Version 8.3 of this program after I had upgraded my notebook to run the Windows 7 64-bit Professional operating system. To my disappointment, I found at first that portions of the latest Replay suite seem inaccessi

Some Questions About Optimizing Graphical & Display Settings In Windows 7 w/JFW

2011-08-23 Thread Kane Brolin
Hello, CathyAnne and Anna. First of all, I have been greatly enjoying the material I purchased from each of you on understanding Windows 7 with JAWS and the iPod Touch/iPhone, respectively. It's very detailed, and I have absorbed truly only a fraction of what you two have written. But these are

Re: Skype 4.0 with screen readers

2009-03-26 Thread Kane Brolin
Hello. I have limited experience using Skype, but have experimented with this increasingly over the last few months. I use Skype 4.0 with JFW 10 and have found that with the third party scripts it is simple to modify settings, to search for and add contacts, etc. I have also found that this is q

Two Items of Accessible Broadcast Equipment for Sale

2009-03-25 Thread Kane Brolin
hese would command at this time. Captek's Web site may be found at http://www.captek.net/Site/Welcome.html If interested, please reply to this message, or phone me at the numbers listed below. Sincerely, Kane Brolin Office: (574)254-9192, Ext. 1 Wireless: (574)386-8868 To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org

Trouble Capturing Real Media Streams with Replay A/V

2009-03-23 Thread Kane Brolin
Greetings. I want to start by saying that I've been quite happy overall with the capture of Internet radio streams I've been able to do using Replay A/V. But I have encountered one massive obstacle: the inability to listen to streams that represent stations transmitting in .RM (Real Media) format

Re: Descriptive Video on Commercial DVDs and Downloads

2009-03-05 Thread KANE BROLIN
> > > NFB and their ilk kind of did it to us when they got the feds to say that it > > was no longer a requirement. So now if you really want descriptive > > programming you have to find it outside of our shores. > > > > -Original Message- > > From: pc

Descriptive Video on Commercial DVDs and Downloads

2009-03-05 Thread Kane Brolin
Hi, folks. I'm probably about to ask a question that's painfully obvious to many. But I'm showing up at the descriptive video/SAP party much later than some. I'm writing to the JAWS list because I am a JAWS user. I'm writing to the Blind iPod list because purchasing video content on iTunes is n

Re: J-Tunes 4.0 is released!

2008-10-19 Thread KANE BROLIN
Ken: If you're not familiar with iTunes, how to use it, or how accessibility software can make this useful for the blind, I suggest you read some of the content shown on the Web site developed by T&T Consulting, the developers of the J-tunes accessibility program: http://www.tandt-consultancy.com.

Re: Online GoldWave class starting October 28

2008-10-19 Thread KANE BROLIN
Steve: Is the beginners' audio editing class available in any form from Web Conduit? I'm contemplating the purchase of GoldWave. I would say I'm on the strong end of the intermediate PC using category with excellent keyboarding skills. But I've never performed a digital audio edit to this point.

Re: MLB game day audio and BrailleSense

2008-03-04 Thread Kane Brolin
for an unrelated reason, you'll have to opt for the original media player again next time you turn on a game feed. As long as you don't delete cookies, you'll not have to make that selection each time; GameDay Audio will default to the original media player setting -Kane > - Or

Re: MLB game day audio and BrailleSense

2008-03-03 Thread Kane Brolin
gton Nationals' flagship station this season. Usually the video feeds, while not named after a station, are named by the type or speed of the Web stream: such as 750K or 400K. Happy listening. Play ball! -Kane > - Original Message - > From: "KANE BROLIN" <[EMAIL PR

Re: MLB game day audio and BrailleSense

2008-03-02 Thread KANE BROLIN
HHi, Gary and others. I've run MLB's GameDay Audio on a PC for ten years now. Just this year, I've discovered that MLB tends now to play most of its multimedia content inside a Microsoft SilverLight frame--somewhat somilar to an Adobe Flash Player frame, except it's Microsoft's proprietary flash

Re: T&T PodCast and J-Tunes 3.2 information

2008-03-02 Thread KANE BROLIN
Terrific! Glad to read aabout the new functionality, as several enhancements mentioned here are things I'd specifically requested. Good show! -Kane Audio List Help, Guidelines, Archives and more... http://www.pc-audio.org To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECT

Accessibility Problem with Microsoft Silverlight?

2007-12-13 Thread Kane Brolin
I've run into an unusual problem involving the Microsoft Silverlight 1.0 plugin: something I didn't even know about until recently. Not long ago, a few sites I visit started encoding multimedia content onto Web pages using Silverlight. This requires the installation of a plugin. One of these sit

Feedback On JLC Internet TV Tuner

2007-10-10 Thread Kane Brolin
Hi, folks. Having just reconnected to this list, someone might have covered this in the past. A friend recently sent me a blurb about a supposedly 100% accessible TV tuner software program known as JLC Internet TV Tuner. This is said to be completely free, unlike many other programs of its kind

Re: Bookport and other assistive technology

2007-09-03 Thread Kane Brolin
There is supposed to be a discussion forum on APH products at http://www.aph.org/. But the FORUM link is dead; I keep getting a "Cannot Find Server" error message. So either the forum has been eliminated or there are changes needed to the design of APH's site. -Kane On 9/3/07, albert griffith <

RFB&D: Victor Reader vs. Bookport

2007-09-02 Thread KANE BROLIN
I've been following the discussion--(I think it was on this list)--about portable media players other than the iPod, that can play different file types. I get the impression -that the iPod cannot play the protected format used by Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic in the production of its digit

Re: Updated Napster Scripts for JFW?

2007-08-31 Thread KANE BROLIN
Brian: Thanks for the tips. I've played around more extensively now with Napster and think I know what to do to find and purchase albums linked to a certain artist. I'm sure I will have additional questions as I gradually get to know Napster. Yes, please send me anything you have written about

Re: verification messages on sites

2007-08-31 Thread KANE BROLIN
Perhaps Google will find a way to fix this YouTube problem, as it has done with originsites such as Gmail. Note that Google did not invent YouTube. It just recently acquired it. You do not, by the way, have to subscribe to YouTube or to get around CAPTCHAs to listen to audio or watch videos, unle

Updated Napster Scripts for JFW?

2007-08-31 Thread Kane Brolin
Near the end of 2003 I downloaded a short set of scripts for Napster that were designed for Napster Client 2.0.7.2. These were offered, I believe, on AccessiblePrograms.com, but are not any more. Since the iTunes Music Store is largely inaccessible to me as a blind PC user, especially when it com

Re: Cassette deck for Digitizing Audio

2007-08-29 Thread Kane Brolin
DJ, I have forwarded your questions to a friend who operates a small computer business nextdoor to me and who is an avid audiophile and music digitizer/collector. It's easy to find places who will sell you equipment, but not nearly as easy to tell which products truly are reliable or which sites w

Re: Cassette deck for Digitizing Audio

2007-08-29 Thread Kane Brolin
Just a correction. The firm you were trying to refer to, DJ, actually is Numark, spelled with a u. A site offering Numark's USB turntable is as follows: http://www.floridamusicco.com/proddetail~prod~numark_ttusb.htm I'm not sure whether Numark offers a stand-alone cassette deck like this; but I g

Re: How to subscribe to podcasts in itunes,

2007-08-25 Thread KANE BROLIN
Sunshine: I don't know a thing about how iTunes works with respect to Window-Eyes, though I suspect somehow it does. I can tell you what I do in JFW 8. The same thing works for lower versions of JFW between 5.0 and 7.1, in case you've not upgraded. There are three different ways I can think of

Re: Quicktime Movie File Not Playing or Converting

2007-08-22 Thread KANE BROLIN
it's using > quick time to do the conversion and it needs the plug in, too. ~Merrill > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of Kane Brolin > Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 4:57 PM > To: Blind iPod Mailing List; P

Dedicated Internet Radio Listening Devices

2007-08-22 Thread Kane Brolin
I recently have heard advertisements for a device, I think sold by C Crane, which permits someone to select and listen to direct streams live from the Internet, without the need for a full-featured PC. This might be a great device with which to travel, because all one needs (according to the ad) i

FM Transmitters: Which One?

2007-08-22 Thread Kane Brolin
I'm becoming more and more interested in a simple FM transmitter that will take output from a computer's sound card--such as something streaming across the Net--and transmit this at low power to an FM frequency of my choosing so the output may be heard throughout my building. I know these have com

Converting WMV Files to iPod Friendly Format

2007-08-22 Thread Kane Brolin
This is related somewhat to my prior post, about a Quicktime .MOV file that would not convert to any other format using SoundTaxi. I found the same podcast I wanted, except with episodes delivered via Juice in a .WMV format (used for Windows movies). SoundTaxi this time didn't even think about co

Quicktime Movie File Not Playing or Converting

2007-08-22 Thread Kane Brolin
Out of the blue I've run into a frustrating situation: One of the podcasts I've subscribed to has an episode that came across as a .MOV file, meant to be played in Quicktime. The file downloads fine in either Juice or iTunes. But when I tried to copy it to my iPod automatically with iTunes, just

Sean's Question About Yahoo! Groups

2007-08-02 Thread Kane Brolin
Sean: I don't know for sure what you need in terms of Yahoo! Groups. But I do use this part of Yahoo! for various purposes and would help you manage them for yourself if I know what you're trying to turn on or turn off. Please write off-list to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you still need assistance. -K

Re: Listening to TV on my computer

2007-07-28 Thread KANE BROLIN
Mike: You say most people who buy these satellite TV reception programs regret their purchase. Why? Is it because these programs wre unnecessary in spite of working well? or is it because they create a backdoor for malware, spyware, and viruses to destroy a system? -Kane Audio List Help, Gui