[icon-discuss] Re: newspapers
- From: "Jenny Axler" <jaxler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 06:49:30 -0800
I have always maintained that if something is easy to tutorialize and document,
that it is easy to use. I think this release is a real testament to the ability
of our developers and their continued efforts at making Icon and Braille + the
most "powerful, flexible, and easy to use" PDA on the market for the blind
today. While I think all the new features of this release deserve praise, I
think the Calculator and Calendar are two great examples of advanced and
complex functionality made simple. I also want you all to know that braille
Display support has been in the works for over a year, and though it will seem
like a very seamless easy thing to integrate in to your use with Icon and
Braille +, it is a whole other dimension of output, and takes a lot of time
andconsideration to make it seem so natural. In other words, I just do the
finish work, after the developers spend months and months trying to make
everything easy, powerful, and flexible, I take a couple of weeks and create
materials to show you how to use all of it. I appreciate the compliments, and I
hope the work I've done brings all the work the others did before me to light
and helps you all take full advantage of it. But, it is the development team
that deserves the greatest amount of credit here. Though I know there are some
database issues, I also know these will be addressed soon, and that soon you'll
all be able to take full advantage of all the new features. Enjoy the new
release.
Jenny
----- Original Message -----
From: Larry Skutchan
To: jaxler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 3:48 AM
Subject: Re: [icon-discuss] Re: newspapers
First, I'm commenting on the list, because I want everyone to hear this.
Jenny, I am going through the new audio tutorials now for the first time, and
I am blown away! This is absolutely fantastic!
I must say, knowing how things were changing so quickly at the end of the
cycle, especially with the unplanned bookshare.org changes, you really pulled
off the mastery and presentation of a lot of complex changes with style, grace,
and elegance to make it all look easy. Congratulations.
I'm glad we are including this with new units, but I wonder if we should also
be including this on the CD as a vidio for training purposes? Maybe the Jenny
and Chase vidio tutorial series?
----- Original Message -----
From: Jenny Axler
To: icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 3:29 PM
Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: newspapers
Yes, there was no mention of them because the release notes only covered
changes, and there are no changes in the way the News Stand works. Perhaps it
was an oversight not mentioning it, but the updates to our software work with
the Bookshare web service as a whole, including the News Stand. However, the
only interface changes appear in the Internet Book search, and so these changes
were detailed in the release notes.
----- Original Message -----
From: Larry Lumpkin
To: support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 12:10 PM
Subject: [icon-discuss] newspapers
I didn't see any mention of the newsstand and periodicals. Are they
fixed?
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