Re: Braille: do you guys still use it in this digitalized world?
I too use braille... quite a lot actually. At work I use my braille note touch plus as an always-on notepad and for meeting notes where I don't want to carry a laptop. Braille is far better than speech for doing things like de
Re: Honeygain, actually not a scam
Heh, in some countries, HoneyGain actually allows you to opt in to sharing the content (what you're browsing). I happen to have a few spair boxes lying around and so I use it to finance my monthly ISP bill. But those boxes are ones I use for pen testing or
playing audio games on the mac?
Hey all, does anyone have experience getting windows games to work on the mac using wine? I got "a hero's call" working using a handy tutorial I found linked from twitter, but I think it only worked so well as the game didn't need to be installed as so many o
Re: MKSpeech: Open source, Low cost notetaker
Manuel, I for one would look forward to owning one of these. For one thing, a tablet with a keyboard dock is too big and takes up too much surface area, especially for those who travel a lot as I do. To be able to have something more along the s
Re: accesible video editors?
People have had good luck with IMovie, there's even a couple of youtube tutorials on the net about it
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Re: accessible two-way radios?
What CW said, these UV's don't have any kind of transmission governors like higher end radios do, which means that you could transmit on frequencies for which you don't have a permit and potentially make someone in the FCC somewhat miffed with you.
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Re: Dating United states
[[wow]]... petto much?
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Re: accessible two-way radios?
Hi Aaron, nah, you definitely don't need special permition to transmit on the family radio service band for example. However, you would have to program those frequencies into the UV5r/82.
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Re: accessible two-way radios?
Well, Chirp is not accessible at all on the PC or Mac Side, but BaoFeng has a "VIP" section on their site with windows programming software that seems to be quite useable with Jaws / NVDA. The truly tough part of the process is finding a programming cable that
Re: accessible two-way radios?
Well, actually, the most accessible handheld two way on the market is the BaoFeng UV5r or UV82 series. They have some speech, and all the menu options are voiced given proper use of the manual to know what numeric option corresponds to.
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Re: Need Help from Canadians
Whaaat? Wind isn't selling the over priced 5s and 5c refurbs anymore? Is this your first cell plan? If not, the best way to get good cell rates in canada is by making use of loyalty pricing. My 7gb rogers plan is about half of market value. Though, Bell and its
Re: Olympus recorders.
Hi Lori, I do use olympus recorders, I owned a dm4 and now a dm720, and they are the best recorders you can get because of one key, and admittedly half assed feature, voice guidance. When you turn the recorder for the first time, you should be able to mash the okay bu
Re: Preventing me to rent a house because of my guide dog
Seb, if that ever happens again, know you can get the landlord under the Ontario human rights tribunal lickady split. My policy is to never mention pets of any kind when I'm renting a place, because even if its a cat, that can be fou
Re: any bitcoin users out there?
Look up BreadWallet for IOS, that's how I use bitcoin
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Re: looking into a laptop
Good choice I'd say any dell model should work for you, though the new small XPS's are really nice. If you're buying a laptop though, I'd suggest getting a more expensive one that is future proof where specs are concerned. That way, you can stick with the same one
Re: Why doesn't my back button work?
You know, when I posted about this, my back button started working again. Might it have something to do with that whole "get windows 10" icon that keeps popping up? When I got rid of that, I started getting a good deal of jaws cursor accessibility back i
Why doesn't my back button work?
I've noticed recently that when I look at a subtopic of this forum, I'm now unable to use my alt left arrow "back" button to get back to the parent forum. Instead I have to scroll to the bottom of the page and use the links seperated by "rightwards arrows" t
Re: looking into a laptop
If you live in any country with a microsoft store and want a windows laptop, I highly recommend getting your laptop there. They have excellent warranty coverage (on par with apple care and somewhat beyond because they give you free "replacements" for things like li
Re: What Are Your Favorite Lighters
Ah, you're talking about the ones that are more rectangular in shape, I've found those to be a pain in the arss generally. When I was a smoker I always gravitated to the more ovoid shaped Bicks that did not come with a flame adjustment nob under where the
Re: What Are Your Favorite Lighters
Head back to the smoke shop, he should be able to sell you a decent butane lighter. You can light a pipe with a standard Bick, but its painful on the thumb and you really have to practice aiming the flame to get into and around the pipe bowl. A butane wil
Re: virtual mac on a windows machine?
Chris, I was installing mac OSX on a windows copy of VMWare
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Re: virtual mac on a windows machine?
Well, I got it to work, running the latest version of OSX Yosemite, using the unlocker and a virtual machine I found online. I got speech during setup of the mac, but you're right, everything's a bit slow and the control alt arrow keys don't work, so I
Re: virtual mac on a windows machine?
Well, I got it to work, running the latest version of OSX Yosemite, using the unlocker and a virtual machine I found online. I got speech during setup of the mac, but you're right, everything's a bit slow and the control alt arrow keys don't work, so I
virtual mac on a windows machine?
Hey all, I'm trying to do something that hasn't been done very much in the VI community and I'm wondering what you guys think. I'm doing a lot of user experience testing for various web development companies and I need access to a mac as well as a PC while
Re: what is the most imbarrosing/ occward situation you have ever been in?
Lol, I can empathize with a lot of these stories. A woman was once running across the top of an escalator I was walking off of, tripped over my cane and did a sliding face plant. Then she proceeded to bounce back to
Re: Wondering if Tracktor DJ is accessible
Um, DJay 2...
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Re: Wondering if Tracktor DJ is accessible
Hmmm, my guess would be that it probably is, at least somewhat due to Apple's app submition guidelines. However, I wouldn't risk buying it given it's accessibility on the PC and Mac side. It seems NI made it such that it'd run in its own custom GUI
Re: The Coolest Little Computer!
Interesting thoughts. I'd store memory on flash media, primarily because an external hdd is going to consume a lot of extra power due to its moving parts etc. Personally, I'd give the PC stick technology some time to mature, I know from experience that Intel
Re: The Coolest Little Computer!
Interesting thoughts. I'd store memory on flash media, primarily because an external hdd is going to consume a lot of extra power due to its moving parts etc. Personally, I'd give the PC stick technology some time to mature, I know from experience that Intel
Re: I need help with my g930 headset.
Hi Will, your problem is that the g930 only uses virtual surround sound. In order to properly play audio games with it you'll have to uninstall the logitech drivers and use the generic ones offered by windows. You'll lose all surround, but you will be a
Re: in search of a new braille display, any advice?
Get the Baum Vario ultra, it is hands down the best new braille display out on the market. It has features like (and surpassing) the braille edge, but those wonderful Baum braille cells. I found that the cells on the braille edge are too s
Re: Demons
This was a very interesting topic to read. Rachel, I definitely don't understand what you're going through having been born blind myself. As others have said, don't make a permenant decision you may one day regret. This world is mostly designed for the sighted and you would have
Re: a proposal, jaws lite shareware by freedom scientific
Interesting discussion. I'm hearing rumblings around the library and education industries in Canada that NVDA is the next big thing for them. Governments are becoming motivated by the fact that they can comply with existing accessibi
Re: Weird stuff found on a new braille note?
Lol, I think your initial question should have been, what are some of the wierd things you've found on a new (to you) but actually refurbished BrailleNote. Thanks to this thread, I don't intend to get a braille note repaired, think of the poor co
Re: Favorite sports? favorite teams?
Lol I can't remember that organization's name either, but from what I hear, its quite vibrant. Many of my goal ball colleagues here in Toronto have fond stories about the players from Québec.
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Re: Anyone here know a blind radio broadcaster/host/producer?
I was a broadcast media professional working in both radio and TV in Canada. I have since switched my career to access technology instruction due to inaccessibility in the in house software that is part of every day life in Canad
Re: Favorite sports? favorite teams?
Of course I'm a habs fan! I'm casual like Tward but will never, ever root for the leafs. I don't understand why their fans are so loyal with such a losing record.
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Re: reinstalling windows 8
Man, install 7 ultimate and have a google for a program called "windows loader".
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Re: Favorite sports? favorite teams?
I did moved to Canada as soon as I turned 19. I'm (mostly) a Torontonian now
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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating
I just created an account and have absolutely 0 matches. Guess there's nobody in my age range
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Re: Favorite sports? favorite teams?
Awesome! I too grew up in Montreal and will be a Bleu Blanc et Rouge fan till the day I die.
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Re: martial arts discussion
I did Karate for a while but its kinda difficult to properly learn if you can't spar without the risk of seriously hurting your partner. However, being able to run through katas flawlessly will get you out of a street fight more often than not.
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Re: [New service] Free phone system for friendship/dating
Philip, on behalf of the many, many older or newly blind clients I train on a weekly basis, thank you! I will be telling them about BlindDateLine within the next week. All of you detracting from what Philip has done, keep in mind the
Re: Cute girls
Lol this was a nice bit of comic relief, thanks Seth! If you want to date a blind/VIP girl, hang out at your local NFB chapter, get involved, etc. Personally I find it much easier to date sightlings.
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Re: How much does spelling matter
In addition to what has been written above, misspelling also effects the site in google search rankings. Also, you can tell who actually reads as opposed to those who just use speech as their primary way of interacting with text and computers.
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Re: Linux Questions
Hi Guitarman, don't bother buying the dvds from amazon, downloading ubuntu will get you the same thing, if not, a more up to date version. You can set up a linux virtual machine under windows 7 using VMWare workstation, and you are correct about how a dual boot works. Ho
Re: Navigon and blindsquare.
I've owned navigon for about 4 years now and I can tell you that they've greatly improved accessibility since it came out close to the time of the IPhone 3gs. I know it works with blind square, but I've never successfuly gotten it to give me turn by turn directi
Re: Traveling to Canada, any tips?
Man I wish we had audible subtitles, I still want to watch crouching tiger hidden dragon. We only got our audible bus announcements recently, and it took two lawsuits by a blind lawyer to get them. I have high hopes for the future though, by 2025, the ontarians
Re: Traveling to Canada, any tips?
Ah I'm with Rogers too and you're right, I do pay up the arss for it. I found Wind's data speeds to be too slow when compared to LTE data so sprung for the 6gb plan.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=177280#p177280
Re: Traveling to Canada, any tips?
One of the reasons Wind Mobile and Mobilicity are so cheep is that they don't use GSM. They use the AWS network which shares some GSM frequencies but a different communication method. Also, you won't get LTE data with them as their networks only support HSPA+
Re: Traveling to Canada, any tips?
Cansino: you should worry more about your IPhone than your GF's nexus4, the nexus series is pentaband which means they'll support any network in the world. Your 4s, not so much unfortunately. Regarding housing, as I said before, look to the west of downtown alo
Re: Traveling to Canada, any tips?
Hey Fastfinge, a fellow Torontonian eh? Awesome! His advice is dead on. If you're looking for places to live, I spoke with one of the city of Toronto's urban planners not too long ago and she suggested that if you're looking for a place to live, your best bet i
Re: Traveling to Canada, any tips?
Hey Fastfinge, a fellow Torontonian eh? Awesome! His advice is dead on. If you're looking for places to live, I spoke with one of the city of Toronto's urban planners not too long ago and she suggested that if you're looking for a place to live, your best bet i
Re: Stereo Microphones..
Hrm, a stereo mic for pc? If you want to use it for skyping etc you really don't need a stereo mic. What did you have in mind to use such a setup for?URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=177003#p177003
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Re: Searching for a portable binaural recording system
Stereo recording is when you have a left and right mic facing forward or in whatever direction. Panning those stereo mics will only give you a wider stereo image. Binaural means that the mics are acting like your ears would. Ears don't liste
Re: Searching for a portable binaural recording system
You know, I've been looking for a similar system, but there's none to be found in Canada and I don't want to pay huge duties to import it from the US. There's a big difference between stereo and binaural recording. The Olympus DM and LS seri
Re: why do we fear the blind?
Hey never turn down free money. Sighted people fear us because they don't know how we do what we do. They try and put themselves in our shoes and realise how screwed they'd be without those eyeballs they take so much for granted. Hearing loss is one thing, but take
Re: the touch experience?
Alex on an IPhone 6? I'd think that'd be quite the battery hog no? While we're on the subject, I'm not going to be a happy person when IPhones start getting massive screens. If I'm walking around using a GPS app, I like that I can reach all over my phone's screen with m
Re: Free Anonymous bittorrent vpn
I figured as much, running a vpn isn't exactly cheep where bandwidth is concerned. I'd be curious if it could actually give you download speeds as fast as your internet connection could handle. Personally, I use a seedbox which, incidentally, comes with a free O
Re: Any way to get Eloquence for android free?
Well, there's always the option of getting someone else to buy it for you. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=176045#p176045
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Re: what do you fear of?
Haha agree with ya there, I never know if the insect buzzing around me is a fly (which I can safely squish), or a wasp (which I may try to squish but then get stung). Its quite the connundram.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175939#p175939
Re: the touch experience?
I for one would much rather have a device with no touch screen and a qwerty keyboard. If designed properly, it can be no slower to navigate, especially if you were able to enable "first letter navigation". Thus, if you unlock your phone to a home screen and hit the "M"
Re: what do you fear of?
An interesting topic indeed. My biggest fear is forgetting who and what I am. It happened to me a couple years back due to some chemical assistance gone horribly wrong and it was bar none the scariest experience of my life to date.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtop
Re: breaking news: skype video calling now free
Its about time, regardless of whether we use it or not, Google Talk / hangouts and Facetime have been free for how long?URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175415#p175415
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