[bookport] Re: New Firmware and Software Betas
- From: Paul Henrichsen <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 14:13:22 -0700
Hi, Larry. I was thinking of the braille entry idea six months ago or so. I
was lying in bed holding my bp and noticed that if I turned it sideways,
that there were six keys. I wondered if one could braille with these six
keys. I don't know which keys below those six I would use for the space
bar and hadn't figured out which key would be for backspace, but I thought
why not just turn the bp sideways and have those six keys on the top row.
Herhaps in braille entry mode, the two keys under dots one and four could
both be the space bar and the ones under three and or six could be
backspace and return.
Nice idea for searching, though. It might also be useful for changing a
file name.
At 8/9/2004, you wrote:
>The most exciting part of this message is the beta firmware. You may =
>download it at=20
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>www.aph.org/beta/bpfw_beta.exe.
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>
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>Book Port Revision History
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>Revision History
>
>Firmware Version 1.1.X, August 2004
> * Adds a means of entering text to find using a braille keyboard.
> * Identifies capital letters when using the letter movement =
>commands by raising the pitch of the pronunciation of that letter.
> * Changes the behavior of files where the reading position is at =
>the end of the file. The unit now resets a file's position back to the =
>beginning of the file if you press the Read command while at the end of =
>the file or if Auto File Advance moves to a file where the reading =
>position is at the end.
> * Adds the Lock Beep command to the menu to let you turn off the =
>behavior of making keys beep when you press one of them while the unit is =
>locked.
> * Corrects a problem where pausing a memo during recording could =
>cause unpredictable behavior.
>
>Software Version 1.5.X, August 2004
> * Corrects the "Bad Parameter Format" error message when sending =
>some MP3 files with time compression and pause removal.
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