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

Mon Aug 17 20:13:53 UTC 2009

I was talking about NLS, not NFB Newsline.  PC World is available via 
paper Braille, or through the WEB-Braille service.

Dave

At 08:36 PM 8/16/2009, you wrote:
>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>
>To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>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
> >To: NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List
> >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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