Hi Penny. I have no doubt that this world is a bit smaller than we can possibly imagine. I always wanted to experience life in a new country, in particular countries where english is the native language. So glad that there's people outside this world of corruption and making things better for the mankind.
Great question. What I want my Mac to do? The thing is, besides the basics like text and web stuff, I'd love to be able to work with music production. Although we have lots of things pretty well designed for PCs, I think that this music production stuff still fits better on Mac systems. I was checking the US store and found that even the iMacs has a large environment to work on. There was a time when I thought that we could make things work on a PC on our own way, but then one day you grow and then you see the treatment you receive when you buy a mac system. Probably I'll work with Logic because it appears to be the best music workstation to deal with, although I couldn't find a comfortable way to use it with JAWS when it was Logic 5.5 for PC by EMagic. But I see a lot of people working with it and saving a lot of time. Or maybe I keep with the hardware synth I have and then use the computer only to transfer audio data to a multitrack audio editor. I have an Yamaha Motif-ES synthesizer and they made a board called mLan16E, that allows you to transfer for example, drum parts to audio tracks on a computer through a single firewire cable. This makes easy for you to transfer all the data you need up to 15 parts or so, at the same time. I guess that many things I want to use are already on the mac; a music jukebox, the browser, the LAME encoder (that now works even with iTunes) or an AAC encoder in case I come to distribute content in these formats to sell or whatever. The intention here is to let Windows go and start a new life, so if we have lots of stuff to enjoy only with Mac it'll be more than fine. Hi Anne. Wow, I'll check this sites to see their tools. So good to know that VoiceOver is not closed on these cases. This will help me a lot in many different ways. Do you know if Nuance provides speech softwares (like Eloquence) for mac and, will they work with VoiceOver? I love their way of approaching punctuations when reading text. Thank you all, Edu Camargo. -----Mensagem Original----- De: "Penny Stevenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Para: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind" <[email protected]> Enviada em: quinta-feira, 22 de novembro de 2007 00:22 Assunto: Re: Greetings from Brazil. Hi there Edu, I have actually just been working with a guy called Fabiano from Brazil who is over here in Australia as a cadet Guide Dog instructor who wants to start a school in Brazil. Small world? I think that before you make the decision to leap the pond to a Mac you should look at what things you want to be able to do with your mac. Perhaps you could put together a list of programs you currently use and ask this list which of those have equivalents on the mac that are voiceover compatible. The good thing about a mac is that for those programs that don't currently have a mac alternative you can always run windows on the same machine through bootcamp. In terms of the different computers around there are basically 2 main types. A desktop or a laptop. The desktops come in a few different versions, the Mac mini, the iMac and I think the big one is the Mac Pro. Then in laptops there are two main categories, the MacBook and the MacBook Pro. The MacBooks are your basic version. The various different models have different cd drives, and hard disc sizes. The Mac Book pros are for editing and stuff and I think have better graphics cards and more inputs (where you can plug stuff in) I just went into my Mac store, told them what I would be using my machine for and told them I didn't want much internal storage space so I ended up with the middle size MacBook - the one with the dual CD / DVD burner. It is suiting my needs perfectly. Take Care, From Penny
