Re: [Blind-Computing] A Question About Copying to an External HardDrive

Hi Linda, Here are the steps to take for copying to an external hard drive. 1.. On your desktop you should have an icon called My Computer. There you should press enter so you'll see the list of drives you have on your computer. In that list will be the 2 drives you'll be working with. On

Re: [Blind-Computing] confusion about CD types

Hi there, A CD-R is a type of compact disc that can be written - that is, things like audio and data can be copied to. This kind of disc cannot be erased. Cheers, Joseph - Original Message - From: "Linda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 8:12 PM Subject: Re: [Bl

Re: [Blind-Computing] A Question About Copying to an External Hard Drive

I am probably the least advanced user on here. Could you tell me step by step how to copy to an external hard drive? I don't want to lose any data. Linda Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-

Re: [Blind-Computing] confusion about CD types

What exactly is a CDR? Linda Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send email to blind-computing@jaws-users.com To unsubscribe from this group,

Re: [Blind-Computing] Google Books

David, is there a "contact us" link or some way that you could write Google for directions? marilyn Visit the Blind Computing List home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/blind-computing@jaws-users.com/ To post to this group, send

Re: [Blind-Computing] jaws 7 saying top of windo and boddem ofwindo inOE wile going through messages

o ok i thought that there was sorry. - Original Message - From: "David Ferrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:45 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-Computing] jaws 7 saying top of windo and boddem ofwindo inOE wile going through messages > In my information there is n

Re: [Blind-Computing] jaws 7 saying top of windo and boddem of windo inOE wile going through messages

In my information there is nobody from FS on this list. David Ferrin www.jaws-users.com - Original Message - From: "Mich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "blind-computing @jaws-users.com" Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 9:36 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] jaws 7 saying top of windo and boddem

Re: [Blind-Computing] Google Books Apology

Thanks David Richard Justice-list moderator Richard Justice-website ownner www.blind-computing.com - Original Message - From: "David Griffith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 8:21 PM Subject: [Blind-Computing] Google Books Apology > To blind computing list. >

[Blind-Computing] jaws 7 saying top of windo and boddem of windo in OE wile going through messages

hello all. This message is to the list as a hole and also to any one from fs like Eric Damerey. I am using jaws 7.0. I have had a problem for the last almost year now when I use OE I will be arrowing through the messages in my in box and then all of a sudden wile I still have messages to go thro

Re: [Blind-Computing] Is there a search function in outlook?

Yes in Outlook the search function is found by pressing F4. I am not sure what it is in Outlook Express. If you are reading a digest a quick way to navigate is to press F4 and type Message: as your search entry. When you press F4 again Message: will still be there and you only have to press ente

[Blind-Computing] Is there a search function in outlook?

I'm grateful for this list, but don't have braille and have to wade through pages of "greater" to find the dashes in these emails. I like this list, and wonder if There's any way to quickly navigate to the next number. Ctrl+f won't do it. Any suggestions? John Simpson Visit the Blind Comput

[Blind-Computing] Google Books Apology

To blind computing list. Apologies for cross posting. This was a mistake and not intentional. Regards David Griffith -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Moderator Sent: Wednesday, 12 December 2007 23:33 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [

Re: [Blind-Computing] Google Books

Hello The link in my post should give some more information. Basically Google Books is a project by Google to digitise books and make them freely available on the web. Some books only allow partial viewing. The problem in the pasts is that the pages are image scans rather than OCR scanned. Howeve

Re: [Blind-Computing] Google Books

Hello David, What is Google Books? Thanks, Steve -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Griffith Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 5:23 PM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Blind-Computing] Google Books Dear

[Blind-Computing] Google Books

Dear List I have just read an article on an attempt to make Google Books accessible to Jaws. Allegedly there is a "hidden" link available to Jaws users which will enable them to access an OCR text version of the images of pages normally inaccessible to us. This OCR link is apparently only availa

Re: [Blind-Computing] FW: A possibly dangerous spam message to 'avoid'

Let's refrain from posting these types of messages to the list. If you feel that the content is relative to the list, send it to the management team, and we will handle it. Richard Justice-list moderator Richard Justice-website ownner www.blind-computing.com - Original Message - From: "Ja

Re: [Blind-Computing] question about a problem i had and is now fixt

TSI sold a special lens that could be used to read the computer screen. I am an old computer programmer and used such a lens before talking computers. George R. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Annette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 4:20

[Blind-Computing] odd winamp and jaws behavior

Ok. now when I start winamp my jaws and my default sounds drop in volume a lot. I am using winamp 5.3, I think and jaws 7.0, and the direct sound out pluggin. any ideas? I have to restart winamp to get it back and htis starts when I start a file. Thanks SA&G The holidays are upon us. visit http

Re: [Blind-Computing] microsoft word problem

Hi Stephen: You may want to try ins+F10 to bring up the list of open applications. Arrow to MSWord and press enter. Sometimes I find that it is a focus issue and this solves my problem, hth Deb. - Original Message - From: "stephen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 20

[Blind-Computing] FW: A possibly dangerous spam message to 'avoid'

FWIW, shortly after posting a message to the blind-computing mailing list, I received the below one. Although, when you read it, for example, the e-mail address therein may look 'harmless', it's relatively possible that, for example, although it may 'read' as an e-mail address, it is in fact an

[Blind-Computing] memo to the list

All right folks, here's the deal at this time. Confused is not an acceptable subject line. I've tried to change it to no avail. David Ferrin www.jaws-users.com - Original Message - From: "Victor Gouveia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 12:01 AM Subject: Re: [B

Re: [Blind-Computing] confused;

You can only use a data or audio cd ater you close (or finalize) the session that contains the ingo you want to use or listen to. Data cds will never work on a standard cd player; they are formatted diffently during the write process. And cdrw disks, regardless of claiming they are an audio or da

Re: [Blind-Computing] question about a problem i had and is now fixt

I'm wondering if it is an Opticon. But I did not know they could read text from a screen Annette -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jacob Kruger Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 2:46 AM To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Subject: Re: [Bli

Re: [Blind-Computing] microsoft word problem

Don't really know what causes these problems, but FWIW, on my one computer (both run Jaws 8.0.1177 at this stage, and MS Word 2003), I can't really use the say all key combo since it will sort of read varying bits of text. I either have to go down line by line, or sometimes paragraph by paragrap

Re: [Blind-Computing] question about a problem i had and is now fixt

FWIW, although my KNFB Reader can't read screens since it's apparently something to do with light etc., the woman who sort of got me back onto computers last year, in fact uses a small hand-held thing that renders whatevers under it's surface into braille on her palm, and she does in fact somet