[icon-discuss] Re: Your Brailleing.stIcon Can be a NOAA WeatherRadio

  • From: "MICHAEL MCCARTY" <mmccarty@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 15:08:31 -0400

I wrote the original email on the computer, so the more direct issue is the 
translation of braille+ to brailleing.


>>> richard@xxxxxxxxxxxx 04/11/08 02:56PM >>>
You just have to do it as computer braille. I write braille and hit control l 
then write the plus 
sign, so it comes out braille+.
Richard 
 
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:47:48 -0600, Nimer Jaber wrote:


>I don't think it will be ing if you put it on its own.
>Nimer J
>
>
>David Poehlman wrote:
>>any way to get the plus sign not to be written out as i n g?
>>
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Chase Crispin" <chase.crispin@xxxxxxxxx>
>>To: <icon-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 9:26 AM
>>Subject: [icon-discuss] Re: Your Brailleing.stiCon Can be a NOAA 
>>Weather 
>>Radio
>>
>>
>>Thanks!  Works well!
>>On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:23:11 -0400, MICHAEL MCCARTY wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Here's a cool idea.  Load the browser of your Braille+/iCon and go to
>>>http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/streamaudio.htm and look for your city in
>>>the list of online NOAA stations.  When you find it, click on the link
>>>for your city.  If you are prompted to either 1, open the file or 2,
>>>save the file, choose 1.
>>>
>>>The Braille+/iCon will respont that "the file will be open after it has
>>>been downloaded" and your audio player should load.  After a second or
>>>two the NOAA Weather Station for your area should start playing.
>>>
>>>Now this is cool, but lets take this one step further.
>>>
>>>Close your audio player and return to the browser.
>>>
>>>Click on the same link you were just listening to, but this time choose
>>>2.
>>>
>>>Save the file on your hard drive in whatever folder you wish.  Be sure
>>>to change the filename to reflect something useful that you'll be able
>>>to find.  Many filenames from this site look something like this:
>>>
>>>louisville.mp3.m3u
>>>
>>>Leave the .m3u on the end of the file, but change the rest to whatever
>>>you wish.
>>>
>>>When you have that done, navigate to the file you saved and click on it.
>>>
>>>With any luck, your audio player will load and you should hear the NOAA
>>>Weather Station for your area. Now, anytime you want weather
>>>information, its available.  Just turn on the wireless and click on
>>>this file.
>>>
>>>I have tested most of these links and have found that the Braille+/iCon
>>>can play most of them.  There are a few that play direct from a
>>>browser, these will NOT play with the Braille+iCon.  Many cities have
>>>an alternate link, if the first one doesn't work, try this one.
>>>
>>>Man this device rocks!
>>>
>>>
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>>>For answers to the most frequently asked questions about Icon and
>>>Braille +, Visit
>>>the LevelStar and APH FAQ pages:
>>>Visit the LevelStar FAQ page at
>>>http://www.levelstar.com/support-faqs.php 
>>>Visit the APH FAQ page at
>>>http://sun1.aph.org/webcast/brailleplus2/faq.html 
>>>
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>>For answers to the most frequently asked questions about Icon and 
>>Braille +, Visit
>>the LevelStar and APH FAQ pages:
>>Visit the LevelStar FAQ page at
>>http://www.levelstar.com/support-faqs.php 
>>Visit the APH FAQ page at
>>http://sun1.aph.org/webcast/brailleplus2/faq.html 
>>
>
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