Anyone with good prices on cf cards (the kind which fit into braillenotes)
please post where you got them on this list. I need one or two.
E. At 08:52 PM 7/14/2006, you wrote:
HI E,
Actually I meant what you are referring to as data key. I just went to their site and it appears they no longer offer them....:(.
Katie Hill
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-----Original Message----- From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of E. Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 1:56 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare And Portable Computing Devices
Do you mean one of those data keys? Or a USB external drive? Th external drives can be huge but are far less portable than the cards or data keys which are, of course, smaller in capacity.
At 04:20 PM 7/14/2006, you wrote:
>HI Monica, > >One option I will suggest is you may want to at some point invest in a >larger USB drive. I have seen them as large as 16GB already and have heard >from Sony that over the coming year they will be as large as 32GB. This goes >back a few months but www.lacie.com had a 16gb for under 200. But it all >depends on your needs. > > > >Katie Hill > >Expand your horizon's at: WWW.838gold.com > >Miracles happen not in opposition to Nature, but in opposition to > >what we know of Nature. > >-St. Augustine > >-----Original Message----- >From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tiffany H. Jessen >Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 12:00 PM >To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Bookshare And Portable Computing Devices > >Between using a number of desktops at work, home, my mother's, and my >fathers, not to mention my two laptops and notetaker, I too am one of those >with several files everywhere. sometimes I have files only on one machine, >sometimes I have files on more than one machine, other times I have the same > >file in different levels of editing on several machines. This isn't even >mentioning my numerous, or thanks to my mum accidentally putting one through > >the washer machine semi numerous, thumb drives and compact flash cards. >What I try to do is >A, get rid of any files which are duplecates or obsolete. B, save the >remaining files with proper names. This includes not only using a book's >entire name, but if it isn't a book or something with a proper name then I >use names which make sense. Like, here at work I have to write progress >notes about the students in all my classes. At first it seems it would make >sense to call the file progress notes, but then you have to relise I not >only have five periods in a day, but also have five semesters in a year. If >I ever need to look back on a file I don't want to go look in each file >until I find what I want, so I name it with the specific class name, >semester, and year. >C, put the files in places which are consistant. Like, if I downloaded a >book from bookshare using kurzweil they always go into a folder called >downloads, which is a sub folder of the folder called kurzweil educational >systems, which is a sub folder of my documents. once I'm done reading it I >manually move it to the books folder, which is on the same level of >downloads. While this sounds easy enough, trust me with the amount of >reading I do and devices I use this is sometimes hard to keep track of, so I > >do ocasionally do have to go in and open and close a lot of the framiliar >sounding titles of the download folder to see what I have in fact finished >or not. I have learned while I do have one folder on the same level as the >other two which contains several books in various levels of editing, never >do I put any books in my documents or other places because then I have to >look through many many more files to find what I'm looking for. >D, ocasionally I consider a, b, and c, and go through everything. Not only >do I clean out each indevidgual machine, but I also compare one machine >verses another. Like, sometimes I may download a book onto one machine and >not finish reading it. Rather than bothering to move it from one machine to >another I just redownload it onto the second machine. Now, after I'm done >reading it there is no need for two copies. I can easily delete the ones I >know are duplecates, but still how do I know which machine to look on for >that one file if I haven't used it in a long time? In this step d I remove >all books which I don't need any longer and place them all onto one >particular machine. That way if I want to go back I always can find things >easily. That machine by the way is set up to make periodic back ups of >itself on an external hard drive. >I not only do this with books, but with all my documents, email, and other >files as well. Additionally since my book port and notetaker use compact >flash cards I like to clean those out as welll. >Finally, the last thing you have to consider is for those files which you >want to have access to from the other machines like your >phone/address/appointment books, or other documents in various stages of >editing. Rather than just copying those files or folders back and forth >where they are overwritten I usually prefer to import and merge it so I have > >all contacts and other essential information on all computers. >As to files which I not only have on more than one computer but regularly >edit, it is sometimes dificult to just copy back and forth because you're >not always sure which is the most updated copy. In that case, after editing >the file I sometimes put a number or date at the end of the file name. I >don't do it with the file menu and save as, because then you again get more >than one copy. Rather than have duplecates I close the file, right click it, > >and then just rename the file. If you didn't want to put numbers in a file >name you can always go into the properties of a file with alt enter, and it >will tell you the date this file was created and the date when it was last >revized/saved. >While I certainly can't brag about it being the most organized method, it >does work for me. The main thing is to find a method of what ever you like >and stick to it. If not you will eventually end up with files floating all >over the place and it'll cause chaos any time you need to find anything. >Now, if I could only find a method of retrieving a meal from the kitchen >without actually applying time into the preparations... >Tiff > > To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to >bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. 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