Re: [Blind-Computing] programs tahat work on start up

2011-01-21 Thread Alasdair King
are not there Yvonne For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ Send any questions regarding list management to: blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com -- Alasdair King For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws

Re: [Blind-Computing] Narrator in Vista

2010-12-20 Thread Alasdair King
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Re: [Blind-Computing] SpeakOn

2010-11-04 Thread Alasdair King
SpeakOn has been developed by Isaac Porat for many years. It's freely available from here: http://www.a-technic.net/speakon.htm It's designed as a key-based, and screenreader-friendly alternative to standard Windows applications. Alasdair King WebbIE On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 10:39 PM, ROSEMARIE

Re: [Blind-Computing] Subject: Re: nvda autoplay

2010-08-20 Thread Alasdair King
Windows Vista and 7 clamped down on Autoplay. You'll find there's no way to make a disk that just runs. You'll always get the windows menu. The autofun.inf can be used to make NVDA the default if the user presses return, but that's it. Alasdair King On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:06 AM, slcb slcbl

Re: [Blind-Computing] Difference between MS-DOS and Windows TXTfiles / Weird Issues with Word Perfect

2010-07-26 Thread Alasdair King
, I don't have a Greek synthesizer. Talk soon, Eleni PS. I adore WebbIE but are there any plans of updating it?  It no longer works on certain webpages. On 7/25/10, Alasdair King alasdairk...@gmail.com wrote: There are two unrelated issues here. 1 How characters are encoded in the file

Re: [Blind-Computing] Difference between MS-DOS and Windows TXT files / Weird Issues with Word Perfect

2010-07-25 Thread Alasdair King
- Greek, for example - and accepting that files with Unicode and non-Greek character will be mangled on your system. Best wishes, Alasdair King WebbIE On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:42 AM, Eleni Vamvakari magkis...@gmail.com wrote:  So today, I decided to see how Word Perfect 5.1 and Ed.exe would

Re: [Blind-Computing] Difference between MS-DOS and Windows TXT files / Weird Issues with Word Perfect

2010-07-25 Thread Alasdair King
.  Even though there are newer editors and browsers in DOS that can handle Unicode, I don't have a Greek synthesizer. Talk soon, Eleni PS. I adore WebbIE but are there any plans of updating it?  It no longer works on certain webpages. On 7/25/10, Alasdair King alasdairk...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [Blind-Computing] Why DOS

2010-07-25 Thread Alasdair King
soon, Eleni For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/ -- Alasdair King For answers to frequently asked questions about this list visit: http://www.jaws-users.com/help/

Re: [Blind-Computing] free screen reader

2010-07-11 Thread Alasdair King
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Re: [Blind-Computing] About Daisy

2010-07-09 Thread Alasdair King
An ODT file is probably an Open Office document. You'll need Open Office installed to open it. http://www.openoffice.org/ Alasdair King On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:07 PM, Donald Marang donald.mar...@gmail.com wrote: Check out daisy.org.  It is a wealth of information and tools.  There is a free

Re: [Blind-Computing] Converting plain text files to DAISY files

2010-05-31 Thread Alasdair King
for a much better-sounding voice. (Note that you must have permission from the voice vendor if you want to redistribute DAISY books made with a particular voice, and the MP3 production uses the LAME encoder which may not be compliant with your local patent regime.) -- Alasdair King WebbIE On Thu

Re: [Blind-Computing] Converting plain text files to DAISY files

2010-05-31 Thread Alasdair King
Nope, 2007 and later. On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Francis E. Khan fek...@tstt.net.tt wrote: I have office 2003.  Will the add-in work with that version? - Original Message - From: Alasdair King alasdairk...@gmail.com To: blind-computing@jaws-users.com Sent: Monday, May 31, 2010 1

Re: [Blind-Computing] Opening .ogg files

2010-03-01 Thread Alasdair King
If you install this you'll find that Windows Media Player then opens and plays ogg files, and you can just press return on them in Windows Explorer: http://download.webbie.org.uk/OggCodecsInstaller.msi Best wishes, Alasdair King On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 9:34 PM, Chris Hallsworth christopher

Re: [Blind-Computing] question on why webbIE lights off on virus scanner

2009-04-03 Thread Alasdair King
the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the  following address:  jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com -- Alasdair King Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list archives: http

Re: [Blind-Computing] RSS feed not working in web IE

2009-04-02 Thread Alasdair King
blind-computing-ow...@jaws-users.com If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the  following address:  jaws-users-list-j...@jaws-users.com -- Alasdair King Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http

Re: [Blind-Computing] Web IE

2009-01-25 Thread Alasdair King
Webbie: Http://www.webbie.org.uk Alasdair king Sent from my iPhone On 25 Jan 2009, at 04:35, Rosemarie Chavarria knitqueen2...@verizon.net wrote: Hi, everyone. I used to have web IE before my computer crashed in October. I'd like to download it again but forgot the link where you can

Re: [Blind-Computing] A software to create installers

2009-01-18 Thread Alasdair King
applications use it (e.g. World of Warcraft). You can get it here: http://nsis.sourceforge.net Best wishes, Alasdair King Skype Alasdairking On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Andrés felipe Pulgarín anprog...@gmail.com wrote: Hello friends. Does anyone can tell me where can I find a software

Re: [Blind-Computing] Need suggestions for assistive technology

2009-01-12 Thread Alasdair King
be an interesting task. Drop me a line if that's helpful: alasd...@webbie.org.uk, 07983 244 131 Alasdair King On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Lino Morales lino0...@gmail.com wrote: John,If you use Web Visum with Firefox 3.0, you can get past those CAPTIA images. This is a Firefox add on that only

Re: [Blind-Computing] internet tuner

2008-11-02 Thread Alasdair King
to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the following address in order to contact the management team [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alasdair King Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws

Re: [Blind-Computing] MSSAPI 4.0

2008-08-15 Thread Alasdair King
, if any, are working: http://help.clarodownloads.com/SAPI4Test.exe Best wishes, Alasdair King WebbIE http://www.webbie.org.uk On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 5:45 AM, Jacob Kruger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have now also tried running the system file checker (sfc.exe), as well as reinstalling SP3, and no luck

Re: [Blind-Computing] Narrator not starting

2008-08-08 Thread Alasdair King
/BlindComputing.php If you wish to join the JAWS Users List send a blank email to the following address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Alasdair King Visit the JAWS Users List home page at: http://www.jaws-users.com Visit the Blind Computing home page at: http://www.blind-computing.com Address for the list

Re: [Blind-Computing] text to daisy converter

2008-07-21 Thread Alasdair King
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Re: [Blind-Computing] pdf2ocr

2008-06-28 Thread Alasdair King
handle complex layouts well. http://www.webbie.org.uk. Cheers, Alasdair King WebbIE On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Erin B. Edgar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to open a pdf document with the free pdf2ocr program. Apparently, in order to do this, I need to run pdf2ocr.bat. If I

Re: [Blind-Computing] I found a Trojan in Goldwave!

2008-06-11 Thread Alasdair King
Our software was flagged as a virus for a day - like lots of assistive technology, it does things like key hooking that can look suspect. We reported this to AVG and they fixed it in the next update. So yes, false positives, but speedy resolution in our case. Cheers, Alasdair King WebbIE On Wed