[gui-talk] Looking for laptop articles on AFB access World

Mon Aug 17 01:36:53 UTC 2009

Dave,
I subscribe to Newsline, if that's what you are referring to, and I read 
articles from the current and last week's New Yorker online there. I'm aware 
they have other magazines, but I don't see any computer magazines in the 
rather short list. Plus it's got nothing to do, so far as I can tell, with 
Braille, and I'm not a Braille reader anyway. We may not be talking about 
the same service or the same Web site because, again, I have noticed nothing 
about Braille on the Newsline service that I've become familiar with. Only 
material that can be read online with a screen reader or, if you email it to 
your own computer, by a Daisy reader which I don't have yet. But I've seen 
nothing about Braille.

anyway, I just skimmed a recent issue of Smart Computing I got from the BARD 
site, and I remember how I used to buy several computer mags at a time from 
a local newsstand when I could read them on print and paper, and I remember 
how spending too much time with them wound up feeling like daydreaming my 
time away when I was a teenage boy, reading issue after issue of custom car 
and hot rod magazines. okay when you're a smart teenage kid who needs a 
healthy break from homework and "good" literature, and can linger over the 
photos of the cars as if they were pinup girls, but now that would be time 
spent that I don't feel I have anymore available to spend like that. I'm 
just looking to catch up a little in a conventional way about what's out 
there and how you call things and stuff, and I'll probably find some recent 
overall article in a Consumer Reports issue, read the article, forgo reading 
the hours of tables and specifics in the big review part like I used to read 
visually so quickly it didn't really matter that much, and that will be 
enough.

Sorry thanks.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
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Sent: Sunday, August 16, 2009 5:21 PM
Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Looking for laptop articles on AFB access World

NLS does have PC World, it is in Braille.

Dave

At 11:45 PM 8/15/2009, you wrote:
>You could get Smart Computing and consumer Reports for free from NLS.  I
>think NLS carries PC World too but I'm not sure.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of David Andrews
>Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2009 10:13 PM
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>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Looking for laptop articles on AFB access World
>
>NLS does a computer magazine Smart Computing, and Consumer Reports.
>
>Dave
>
>At 10:28 PM 8/14/2009, you wrote:
> >al,
> >Al,
> >Joel here. I'd have to subscribe to get articles on Consumer Reports 
> >about
> >these things, and I don't mean what are the most basic things about
>laptops.
> >I'm not that ignorant. but if I wanted to see the latest descriptive and
> >evaluative reports about quality, battery life, and so forth, I'd have to
> >fork over some money.
> >
> >I do belong to Newsline, and a random look through a recent computer
> >magazine might be helpful in getting me orientted, even if I just saw one
> >review of some product or other. but I can't download whole issues. I can
> >only read what's dcurrently online. Because I'm still waiting for that 
> >free
> >daisy reader! LOL
> >From: "albert griffith" <albertgriffith at sbcglobal.net>
> >To: "'NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List'" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> >Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 8:51 AM
> >Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Looking for laptop articles on AFB access World
> >
> >
> >If you went to consumer reports you could benefit from overviews of the
> >basic types of laptops.  Since you  belong to NLS you could look in 
> >issues
> >of Smart Computing or PC World.  I believe they carry them  both now for
> >download.
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> >Behalf Of Gerald Levy
> >Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 7:06 AM
> >To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> >Subject: Re: [gui-talk] Looking for laptop articles on AFB access World
> >
> >
> >Joel,
> >
> >Because laptop and netbook models tend to have very short product life
> >cycles, the blind publications rarely review specific models.  Even
>Consumer
> >
> >Reports has a hard time keeping up with rapid changes in models and
> >features.  The blind publications prefer to review adaptive technology
> >products that have a relatively stable product life cycle.  Also, laptops
> >and netbooks are mainstream products which, by themselves, lack special
> >adaptive enhancements, except, of course for products like the IPhone 3GS
> >and the Mac with Voice Over.
> >
> >Gerald
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
> >To: "GUI-Talk" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
> >Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 2:54 AM
> >Subject: [gui-talk] Looking for laptop articles on AFB access World
> >
> >
> > > I've tried their search function, using "latpops" and "laptop 
> > > computers"
> > > as
> > > my search terms, andhave gotten useless results.anybody simply know 
> > > the
> > > most
> > > recent issue in which they or another publication,maybe, review the 
> > > most
> > > current laptops, whether Windows or Mac?
> > >
> > > thanks.
> > >
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