[optacon-l] Re: Color Identifiers? WAS: Re: Re: One of the Little Blessings of Having the Optacon
- From: "Gordon Kent" <dbmusic@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 10:30:21 -0500
Well, this is a bit OT for this list, but I have been using the "color aid"
ap for the IPhone which works great with the new I4s and only costs a
dollar.
Gord
-----Original Message-----
From: Debby Franson
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 11:46 PM
To: optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [optacon-l] Color Identifiers? WAS: Re: Re: One of the Little
Blessings of Having the Optacon
Hi!
I saw my friend's color identifier a while back. When I asked her where
she bought it, she couldn't remember. What color identifiers do people use
and like?
Debby
At 12:46 PM 12/4/2011, H & C Arnold wrote
>Oh yes, and Debbie, using other applications - now I have checked to make
>sure my wrapping paper is on right side out. The color identifier is
>faster,
>but once we didn't have them.
>
>In God We Trust,
>
>Carolyn
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Debby Franson" <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2011 1:49 AM
>Subject: [optacon-l] Re: One of the Little Blessings of Having the Optacon
>
>
>Hi Nancy!
>
>When the front of the CD insert has printing that is either too big or too
>fancy or weird a font, I read the spines of the jewel cases. If you have a
>new CD, the tape that is at the top has nice plain printing of the title
>and artist, sometimes better than the same information on the spine,
>because it sometimes fancier on the spine, when it's always beautifully
>plain printing on the tape.
>
>Debby
>
>At 08:01 PM 11/25/2011, Nancy Shackelford wrote
> >The CDs I have tried to read, like looking on the front just to see the
> >artist and title, I've found many hard to read. Anybody got suggestions
> >for
> >this?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Nance
> >
> >
> >Nancy Shackelford
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> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "John Huffman" <j73.huffman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 7:52 PM
> >Subject: [optacon-l] Re: One of the Little Blessings of Having the
> >Optacon
> >
> >
> > > Dan and list,
> > >
> > > I sharpened my Optacon skills back in the 1970s on several
> > > shelf-feet-worth
> > > of album covers--mostly classical in my case. I always made up
> > > braille
> > > lists of composers and pieces and kept the list inside the album
> > > sleeve
> > > it
> > > belonged to.
> > >
> > > Fast forward a decade or so. I initially greeted the advent of CD's
> > > with
> > > horror because there was no way I could put the same braille hard copy
> > > inside a jewel case. As I eventually gained computer skills, I could
> > > put
> > > the same info into files on the PC, but I lost many of these in a
> > > hard-drive
> > > crash 8 years ago. The painful experience made me much more religious
> > > about
> > > backing up hard-drive content, but I've never summoned up the energy
> > > to
> > > recreate what I lost. But I still use the good old Optacon to read
> > > all
> > > my
> > > liner notes.
> > >
> > > Regards, JH
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Dan tonge" <danieltonge2011@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: "Optacon" <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 8:28 PM
> > > Subject: [optacon-l] One of the Little Blessings of Having the Optacon
> > >
> > >
> > >> When I had my Optacon for years before, I was able to label virtually
> > >> all
> > >> of my record albums, ensuring that the name and artist were spelled
> > >> correctly, and which was the first song on Side 1 and 2. I haven't
> > >> been
> > >> able to do that with any of the additions to my records or CDs during
> > >> the
> > >> time when I didn't have a working Optacon. I have already been able
> > >> to
> > >> verify that I have recorded Side 1 or A on the computer in the right
> > >> order
> > >> in several cases, and it is so nice to be able to read the album
> > >> covers
> > >> again. Not a big deal, but just one of the things I can do myself
> > >> instead
> > >> of finding someone who has or will take the time to do it for me.
> > >>
> > >> I hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving and will have a happy,
> > >> blessed
> > >> Christmas and New Year season.
> > >>
> > >> Dan
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