[gui-talk] A new kind of accessibility:

Tue Apr 7 10:41:33 UTC 2009

I think it depends on the device and whether the USB port on your computer
is standard or enhanced referred to as USB2.  

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I haven't noticed that transfer is faster using a card reader instead of the

device we use the cards in.  Pam.
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> As you said earlier and I confirmed card readers are used to hold the 
> little
> cards sightlings put in cameras and other small devices.
> We, the blind, typically use them because they're faster.  They transfer
> files faster than if we kept the cards in the devices they're used in.  We
> would use card readers to conserve energy but the devices I'm familiar 
> with
> that we use don't have the kind of energy problems many of the cameras do
> that sightlings use.  I was generalizing of course.
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> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
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>
> Who's we, and what do "we" use them for, and in what way are they faster?
> Faster than what?
>
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>
> Yes they probably do.  They often use them because transferring the data
> from their camera's uses valuable energy and the reader gets its power 
> from
> the USB port.  We use them mostly because they're faster.
>
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> Behalf Of Joel Deutsch
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>
> you must be talking about things I don't use except within the body of my
> own computer, right? Like a memory stick from another computer, or the
> memory cards of various sorts that you stick into things like blind 
> reading
> devices or digital cameras, stuff like that. Now am I geting it?  You mean
> all my normally sighted friends who have digital cameras all have some 
> sort
> of card reader that comes with it and plugs into their USB port where I've
> got my thumb drive plugged in and sometimes take it out and plug in my
> mobile .mp3 player so I can copy a music file to it or copy an audible.com
> book from Audible Manager to it?
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>
> Not quite right.  This won't accept thumb drives.  It reads various kinds 
> of
> memory sticks and cards.
>
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>
> Dave,
>
> Well, I have one thumb drive stuck into a front-side USB port all the time
> to which I copy various things I want to keep backed up from my hard 
> drive.
> So if I'm understanding you, this is some sort of device that provides 
> extra
>
> input slots for more such things, sort of the way a power strip lets you
> plug a bunch of devices into one outlet? And when you select one of the
> things you've got attached to it, it shows up in Windows Explorerr just 
> the
> way my one and only thumb drive shows up now? Is that pretty much how it
> works? It's a thing that plugs into that USB port and sits on the desk in
> front of your computer and has a few slots in it for a few thumb drives?
>
> At least I understand it isn't a gypsy lady who reads Tarot cards. That's
> the only meaning I could think of, which is what such fortune tellers are
> generally called. Card readers or Tarot card readers. That's Taroh, Mr.
> Jaws.
>
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> A card reader is a small device that hooks up to your computer,
> usually via an USB connection, and accepts one or more flash storage
> cards, such as SD or compact flash, or memory sticks.  The card then
> appears to your computer as does another drive so you can move files
> to and from it.
>
> Dave
>
> At 06:50 PM 4/4/2009, you wrote:
>>Stupid question of the day: what's a card reader?
>>
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>>I just bought a card reader and it came with a disc which included the
>>print
>>user's manual in PDF format.  I think this will happen more often which
>>will
>>make life just a little easier.
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