You can read more about RFB&D at: www.rfbd.org
and about Newsline at either: www.nfbNewsline.org or: www.nfbNewslineOnline.org Note that these services are primarily for those in the United States. Enjoy, Wayne On 6/18/10, qubit <[email protected]> wrote: > GW Micro Announces New BookSense Buddy Softwarehow do you get onto newsline? > I got the file key for downloading and reading books from BARD. Is newsline > kind of like that? > What about rfbd? > > My booksense is already full of books and movie soundtracks. I have the > internal flash memory full, the spare sd card full, and my 16GB thumb drive > filled with all the movies it could hold I think it is kind of funny to > have all that plugged into this little device. I'll never get through all of > it. I also got hearing aids that are bluetooth enabled, so I can plug a > little thing into the booksense and listen to whatever, and no one else > needs to know -- unless I am preoccupied and don't answer their > questions...*smile* > Unfortunately, the hearing aids require a special device in order to use > the bluetooth, so I can't use the builtin bluetooth on the booksense. I was > kind of annoyed about that. But with the device I can listen to the > booksense with half volume and the rest of the volume is surrounding sounds. > So I'm not totally detached from the world. > The point is, if I plugged in a little microphone and the power plug plus > all the other stuff, then every jack on the unit would be connected to > something and I'd be happily listening to it via bluetooth...lol > you know i really don't have time to play with all these gadgets, but so > far it has been fun when I do. > > Take care and happy listening. > --le > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Christopher Chaltain > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 8:01 PM > Subject: RE: [GW-Booksense] GW Micro Announces New BookSense Buddy > Software > > > True, I just thought it would be more convenient to manage all of my > booksense content from one application. I mean technically speaking, > Booksense Buddy isn’t necessary at all, since I already have other ways to > transfer any content I want to the Booksense. Incorporating Newsline support > into Booksense Buddy might pose some technical challenges though, and of > course cooperation from NFB, so I would definitely understand if it didn’t > turn out to be worth the effort. > > > > -- > > Christopher > > [email protected] > > > > From: Aaron Smith [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 7:27 PM > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [GW-Booksense] GW Micro Announces New BookSense Buddy > Software > > > > I believe that NFB Newsline has its own transfer software, so I'm not sure > that's necessary. > > Aaron > > On 6/18/2010 5:38 PM, Christopher Chaltain wrote: > > I haven’t played around with this software yet, but any chance that NFB > Newsline support would be incorporated into the Booksense Buddy? > > > > -- > > Christopher > > [email protected] > > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 11:19 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [GW-Booksense] GW Micro Announces New BookSense Buddy Software > > > > GW Micro is proud to announce the BookSense Buddy. The BookSense Buddy is > a software application designed to provide beginner BookSense users a > consistent and comfortable interface for transferring extracted or zipped > DAISY books (Bookshare, NLS, and RFB&D), Audible audio books, supported > documents (BRF, BRL, TXT, etc.) and audio files (MP3, OGG, FLAC, etc.) to > BookSense devices. BookSense Buddy also provides direct access to the latest > version of the BookSense firmware. > > The current version of BookSense Buddy is a beta, and should be treated as > such. If you have questions or comments on BookSense Buddy, please call us > at 260-489-3671, email [email protected], or join the gw-booksense email > list (www.gwmicro.com/listserv), and discuss BookSense Buddy with other > BookSense users. > > You can access more information about BookSense Buddy and obtain the > current version from www.gwmicro.com/booksensebuddy. > > Enjoy! > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is > related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your > message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. To > manage your subscription to gw-booksense, visit: > http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv If you reply to this message it will be > delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others > on the list andyour message is related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then > please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the > entire list will receive it. To manage your subscription to gw-booksense, > visit: http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv > > > > -- Aaron Smith Product Support Specialist * Web DevelopmentGW Micro, Inc. * > 725 Airport North Office Park, Fort Wayne, IN 46825260-489-3671 * > gwmicro.comIf you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original > sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message > is related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your > message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > To manage your subscription to gw-booksense, visit: > > http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv > > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender > only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is > related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your > message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. > > To manage your subscription to gw-booksense, visit: > > http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv -- Follow me on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/wcmerritt My websites: www.wayneism.com www.whitecaneday.org If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list andyour message is related to GW Micro or the BookSense, then please consider sending your message to [email protected] so the entire list will receive it. To manage your subscription to gw-booksense, visit: http://www.gwmicro.com/listserv
