I actually have both a Braillenote and a laptop, and I wouldn't like
to be without either. I use the braillenote primarily as, well, a
notetaker, and I love to be able to write away quietly in meetings
without the need for an earphone with speech in one ear and the
meeting in the other ear. A lot of access technology is expensive and
sadly, unlike screen readers, we're not going to get an open source
note taker, but I like my braillenote with all it's problems, and I
love the GPS.
Talk soon
John Ramm
At 09:12 19/03/2008, you wrote:
if you want, do that.
you'll see lots of advantages to this.
orhan.
On Wednesday, March 19, 2008 3:59 AM Iyana Kellerman wrote:
Okay, then, what about a laptop, drop the notetaker completely?
Iyana
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From: "KD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Iyana Kellerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date sent: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:45:43 -0500
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Comments ((slightly) harsh)
I've actually heard that the Omni is not better at all. My
friend has one,
and he's having problems. I think we all have to face the fact
that there's
no such thing as a perfect notetaker, and it's solely a matter of
preference.
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From: "Iyana Kellerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Grant Hardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Comments ((slightly) harsh)
What about the Omni? It's a lot better.
Iyana
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Date sent: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:34:57 -0700
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Comments ((slightly) harsh)
Hello,
Though I don't normally reply to these types of threads, I have
this to say.
I have a PAC Mate right now. A PAC Mate BX400. And I'm trying
my hardest
to get a BrailleNote mPower instead.
Why? Because perhaps the BrailleNote has some bugs that need
ironing out, but the PAC Mate is just pure marketing. It is
sluggish.
There's no proper
way to read in Braille; there are no thumb keys, only "advance
buttons", which are rather like cursor router buttons - can you
imagine panning like that? Skype is too sluggish to even try - if
you don't believe me, I'll be glad to call you on it to prove a
point. Word files don't open
at all in
Freedom Scientific's editor, and in Pocket Word (now Office
Mobile), the support is quite laughable (i.e. numbering doesn't
show up at all). To take a Rich Text file and save it in their
standard braille document, you must save to two different file
formats. You cannot open or save
files under
more than one level of subdirectory without using a file manager
and manually copying them there. There are problems with web page
encodings in Pocket Internet Explorer, that pose reading problems
to JAWS.
When pasting
information from web pages or text documents into braille files,
they are not automatically translated. You need a third-party
program to play MP3 streams, and you can't control the volume
separately from that of the speech. If, while saving a document,
the drive you are saving to is inaccessible, you will lose your
work. You'll pay money for
DAISY readers
and database managers. No interactive fiction client is
accessible. Multilanguage support is dreadful.
Is that enough of a rant? I personally look forward to getting
rid of this thing in favour of a BrailleNote. Since I took
advantage of FS's trade-in program, my school work has suffered
enormously. So, while I remember that some of the BrailleNote's
quirks were challenging, they are nothing compared to the PAC
Mate's horrible flaws.
Grant
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:57 PM, James Scholes
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Hi,
I completely agree with your comments, and am glad to say that as
soon as my
education is finished, I will be getting rid of the bn for good
thank god! On Tuesday, March 18, 2008 6:15 PM, you wrote:
You said Humanware doesn't have a presence on the list and
doesn't care. I agree with you. I have only twice seen the list
manager send an email in the past three months. And I don't
remember it being anything important. It was never even "We'll
look into this." They just ignored all the things we asked for.
They say they might put MSN on Version 8. You know what they'll
say? "Oh, we couldn't do it ..." and not give a good explanation
of why. Plus, HumanWare products are priced ridiculously high.
Is it true that PacMates without the Braille display are
something like 1500 dollars, but BrailleNotes, not including the
display, seem to be around 3000 dollars, and the Braille displays
are ridiculously expensive. You can get wireless cards for 300
dollars??? Ridiculous! Ethernet cards for 200 dollars???
Ridiculous! If I were to go buy an ethernet or wireless card
normally, they might be less expensive. It seems like
BrailleNotes have been completely forgotten, except to get more
money. And this thing about the older Braille displays not being
serviced? I have an older display, and to replace it would be
over 3000 dollars, right? This is simply ridiculous!!
(No offense meant to anyone)
Iyana
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