[bookshare-discuss] Re: Ot New computer advice and monitor for low vision
- From: "Duane Iverson" <diverson@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2012 14:49:24 -0500
One quiet suggestion.
Buy an external hard drive and put all your important files on that drive:
Then a crash is aa heck of an annoyance but not a catastrophy.
Also as far as sighted use of the screen goes Have you looked at either
Magic the screen inlarger from f
reedom Scientific? Or the system access program from serotek which has a
built in screen enlarger?
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From: "Estelnalissi" <airadil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 2:57 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Ot New computer advice and monitor for low
vision
Dear Booksharian Friends,
Proofreading is what I do most of the time when I'm at my computer. Mine
is about 7 years old. To proof books in word I have to divide them in
parts or my computer fan shrieks and there are large time lags when I make
changes. Last night I got a blue screen and two weeks ago I got a blue
screen one day, a black screen the next day and a blue screen the
following day. My fan is so loud when I go to a site like Amazon or
Paperback Swap that I can't hear anything else in the house. I think
Scotty would say, "She can't stand the strain, Captain.!"
I'm terrified that the next crash will leave me with no ability to save
the files of all the books I've proofed, my the poetry I've collected, the
quotes I glean from the books I proof, the Gaelic dictionary I've compiled
while reading books about Scotland and Ireland, The personal e-mail that
means so much to me and my favorites that help me find the sites on the
internet I love.
I have to get a new computer! I use jaws to do 99 percent of my computer
work. I have no light perception in one eye and under 20/400 in the eye
that works. It has no travel vision. I can't see things at the end of my
arm, on the floor or across the table from me when I'm eating with others.
The miracle is that I can still see print if my nose is literally touching
the screen or no more than 2 inches away, one inch if the print is on
paper and is large enough.
My current monitor which turns dark aqua blue sometimes is the heavy old
type of TV. I can see enlarged pictures or print on it with no distortion.
I only have to frequently clean off my nose prints. The new computers have
flat screens. When I get close enough to them to see them a kind of shadow
appears, darkening what I'm trying to see so that I can't see it at all.
No matter how large the screen is, my particular vision problem requires
me to be right up there. Often it means standing up so I can lean over the
keyboard. For this reason, I can't see the screen on a laptop. I'll be
buying a desk top with a big monitor.
Can any of you advise me of a kind of monitor which doesn't get all
distorted when you get right up close to it? Can anyone advise me of a
computer you think will be strong enough for me to continue proofreading?
I don't play computer games because they move too fast for me to track and
I can only see a little part of the screen at one time. I want a computer
which will be able to handle long books in Word and will have a big memory
for the books I like to keep after they are approved. I'd also like to
save music, which I haven't been able to do for ages because my computer
has been extremely noisy for at least two years. I just couldn't afford to
replace it the minute it became troublesome. I think now I can't delay
getting a new computer any longer.
I'm also wondering if anyone will be able to help me work with the new
Word I'll get. I'm not intuitive when it comes to anything electronic. I'd
use word 2003 forever if I could. Evan proofs in k1000, so word isn't his
go to proofing platform.
Any advice will be deeply appreciated. I'm so sad that my Dell is begging
to retire.
Maybe with a new computer it'll be easier to organize and keep up with
e-mail, particular e-mail from individuals. I don't do face book and
twitter, but e-mail from individuals is precious.
The Geek squad from Best buy will come to my house to install JAWS, k1000
and transfer my current memories to my new computer. I am so scared
they'll say they can't do it. Computers are wonderful, but hard copies of
books and music don't vaporize in an instant. When my new computer crashed
after only a year, they said they couldn't retrieve the email.
Wish me luck. Evan thinks I should be excited to be updating but I think
its terrifying! And, I don't want to be stopped from proofreading for a
single day.
Always with love,
Lissi
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