Hi all, I have found a few things with 9.1: 1. The reset now seems to beep twice, once when the button is pressed and once when the unit actually resets.
2. During a reset, numbers appear on the right side of the display. I guess they are like a percentage of how far along the bn is in the booting process but am not sure. 3. It is true that, as was said in the presentation, no "connection configuration to use" prompt appears. However, this introduces a rather large bug: if you have wifi off, or for some other reason cannot get online, the bn will say "the page cannot be displayed" instead of turning on wifi like it did in previous versions. 4. The enter-4-5-6 keystroke in terminal mode, used with iOS devices to pass the next keystroke directly to iOS instead of having it interpreted by keysoft, works well. For example, hit enter-4-5-6, then hit space-h. Instead of help coming up, the Home button is activated. The only problem here is that this cannot be locked, so you must press it every time you want to use a keystroke which keysoft normally interprets as a command. BTW, the scroll wheel is still not active in terminal mode with iOS. 5. The apex now acts as a braille terminal for jaws 12 on my windows 7 64-bit machine, and the setup was easy. However, I cannot figure out how to use grade 2 entry; everything is in computer braille for some reason. This is likely my fault and not a bug, though. Oh, and the scroll wheel does indeed work, with the center button being enter, scrolling forward seeming to be arrowing down (and scrolling back arrowing up), and I am not clear on the other four buttons. I have not yet figured out how to enter modifier keys or other commands. 6. Needless to say, the installation was great. I got the license and put it on a thumb drive. I went to the main menu and put in the drive and a prompt came up saying to perform a reset to install licenses or packages. After the reset, I saw that one license had been installed. I then repeated the process with the upgrade file itself. It took probably five minutes or so, with the bn telling me which step it was on and the percentage. The longest process was the extraction of the actual rom image, and that had no progress. My speech and braille preferences were used for this display. Once the installation was done and the machine had rebooted, it installed some documents and the manual and it was done. Very slick! 7. The ability to action links and view tables in Word files is really handy and offers a significantly expanded range of files to the bn, whereas before we would have seen an exception message. I am disappointed that docx support was not included, as that was promised for this upgrade back when the apex came out. Hopefully hw will include this in a future release as a maintenance upgrade for 9.1 and it will still be free, but who knows? That is not to say that I am disappointed in the upgrade; hw did a wonderful job on the updated keyword and it is nice to not have to worry about a document crashing the program just because there is a link in it. -- Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from GMail website) [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap ___ Replies to this message will go directly to the sender. If your reply would be useful to the list, please send a copy to the list as well. To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [email protected] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
