Hi all,
I have 2 things for ya.
1.  Well folks, remember I said I'd never use a mac?  Well, some good folks on this list told me to try 1 out, or, listen to demonstrations of it, with folks who us e it.  So, just yesterday, I decided to look into the new operating system, (Leopard), and folks, I went to blindcooltech.com and found 5 files I downloaded and listened to 2 of them, and my have things changed with the mac!
First of all, if you go to


http://www.blindcooltech.com


and then press control f if you're a jaws user, or control shift f if you're a window eyes user, you get the find command, and type
blind Leopard Install
and press enter, you'll go to the link for that file.  Download that and listen to it!  This blind guy Kevin Reeves, installs the operating system, HIMSELF!  No sighted help needed at all!
Then, on the blind cool tech page, further up the page you'll find a newer file called
Apple and Macbook.  Dane demonstrates it in action, and it sure has a desktop on it!
and the link to that file is pasted in below.



http://media.libsyn.com/media/bct/bct1156AppleAndMacBook.mp3


The next file up the page is even newer, and it's called
Mac accessibility Demo
so, just do a find, and either paste in the above line of text, or type it in yourself, and this is from May 24th of 2008, and you get to hear it in action by Mike in St. Louis.
Then, back on the blindcooltech.com site, there's a file called
Mac accessibility demo part 2
So, do a find, and you'll find the link for that one, where he shows you more with the mac and voiceover.
Then, back on blindcooltech.com, is the final file called
Mac demo part 3
So, do a find and you'll find that link as well.  This is from August 12, 2008.
All I can say folks, is, if either of my computers die, and I can't get them fixed, and if windows 7 is junky, like vista, with tree views, I'm know what I'm going to do, and that is, get a mac!
By the way, you that use the mac know how it says "collapsed"?  Well, you don't have to go into a tree view for example with a hard drive, by using right arrow to expand it, oh no.  You can just press command o, and it opens, and folders open that same way, or programs launch the same way.
2.  Now, one of the demos showed that in the mac, you don't have to use the my computer utility, because, well, there isn't one!
So, I thought to myself, I wonder if I can put my c drive and my DVD drive (which for me is the d drive), on my desktop, just like on a mac?
So, I did it.
Now, I don't have to go to my computer any more to get to the hard drive, or my DVD drive.
Harry


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