[tabi] Fw: New Firmware for Sense Notetakers
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- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 18:27:26 -0400
New Firmware for Sense Notetakers
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Subject: New Firmware for Sense Notetakers
Version 5.5 has been officially released for the Sense notetakers, including
the Braille Sense Plus, Braille Sense Plus QWERTY, and Voice Sense. This FREE
upgrade boasts a variety of new features and software enhancements including
support for Word 2007 documents (.docx format), and the capability to sync with
Outlook 2007. Customers will also find the new ability to easily import and
export contacts from the Address Manager to other applications using the
standard csv format, making the Sense notetakers compatible with almost any
contact management software.
Printing
Printing support has been greatly enhanced. The Braille Sense notetakers now
support printers compatible with PCL 3 and PCL 5. What does this mean to you?
It means the Sense notetakers can now print to a larger number of printers. If
you are a Voice Sense customer, you will also be happy as the ability to print
via Bluetooth has been added for all Sense notetakers. If you are working from
your favorite comfortable chair, you can now print wirelessly with this new
Bluetooth printing ability.
Email
Other software enhancements include better email support through the
implementation of TLS. Some Internet service providers (ISPs) require certain
types of authentication in order to send email. The new TLS implementation
will greatly enhance your email experience by ensuring you will be able to send
email through more ISPs than before. A Sent box and Outbox have also been
added to help standardize the interface with other mobile devices.
Media Player
Do you want better control of the way your Sense notetaker sounds? You now
have it with an overhaul of the Media Player’s options. You can now adjust the
treble, midrange, and bass of whatever audio files you are playing. Configure
each setting to meet your listening preference, sit back, and enjoy the
high-quality sound you get from a Sense notetaker.
Web Browser
If you visit a lot of websites that require you to login, you will enjoy the
new feature of the Web Browser allowing support for cookies. For example, if
you are a Bookshare user, and you want your Sense notetaker to remember your
username and password, it can now easily be done. And, speaking of Bookshare,
another software enhancement of the firmware is that the unzip tool can now
unzip Bookshare books.
If you find yourself in a hotel, and you try to connect to a Wi-Fi network, you
are typically taken to a login page. Don’t be stuck this July at your favorite
summer show without version 5.5, as it now allows better handling of these
dynamic refreshes, providing you with a better web experience. Enjoy the new
list of favorites that has been added to the Web Browser, including
skweezer.com, a website making it easier for mobile devices to access the web.
Note that you will need to rename your current Favorites folder to take
advantage of the new list of favorites.
The DAISY Player
If you are a teacher or student, you can now enjoy more textbooks on the Sense
notetakers with the implementation of NIMAS and NISO in the DAISY Player. This
widely-used standard will provide you with hours of learning by listening to
all of your textbooks on your favorite Sense notetaker.
Do you want to read your DAISY book in just Braille? Simply turn off the
speech, and start reading at your own pace. And, whether you are reading in
just Braille or with speech, easily move between phrases, sentences, and words
with the new enhanced navigation features. Using a book that you need to
search? You can now search for any phrase, allowing even faster navigation.
Many DAISY books are recorded with speech, but perhaps you don’t want to hear
the speech that was recorded. You now have the ability to toggle back and
forth between the recorded speech of the DAISY book and text only. So, you
have the option to either listen to the recorded speech or synthesized speech
from your Sense notetaker.
MSN Messenger
With the addition of Windows Live Messenger, Microsoft has dropped support for
the older protocols used by MSN Messenger. This means that older versions of
Messenger no longer work. With the new firmware, the new protocols for Windows
Live Messenger are now supported by the Sense notetakers, allowing you to
quickly and easily chat with all of your favorite Messenger contacts.
Utilities
The calculator has been updated so that the display is not read every time you
type in a number. For example, if you typed in 1 and then 2, you would have
heard twelve. If you typed in 3, then you would have immediately heard one
hundred twenty-three. This was confusing to some customers, so now if you type
in 1, 2, 3; you will only hear 1, 2, 3.
You can now synchronize your time when connected to the Internet to make it
easier to set your clock. Note that you must set your time zone and Daylight
Saving Time options before you synchronize your time.
Format your flashdisk, SD card, or any other type of memory with the built-in
format tool.
Two brand new utilities have been added. The new sleep timer allows you to put
your Sense notetaker to sleep whenever you need it, and you can now choose to
show your passwords when you are typing them in. If you prefer to have your
passwords hidden, then you will hear “star” as you type in your password. Or,
if you unhide your passwords, then you will hear everything you type in to a
password field.
SenseNav 2010
A new version of SenseNav is now available with updated maps and packed with
new features too numerous to mention here. Information on the new SenseNav
will be announced separately.
Discover these exciting new features and software enhancements by upgrading
your Sense notetaker today. For instructions on how to upgrade your Sense
notetaker, go to www.gwmicro.com/kb1028 to learn how to upgrade your unit if it
is connected to the Internet. Or, check out www.gwmicro.com/kb1091 to learn
how to upgrade your unit if it is not connected to the Internet. For a
complete list of new features and enhancements, go to
ftp://ftp.gwmicro.com/braille_sense/Sense_Firmware_Changes_in_V5.5_0630.txt.
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