[gui-talk] new 64 bit computer

[Lloyd Rasmussen]

There is a PC-Pine, and some people run it at the Windows command prompt.  

I have run Windows Live (pre-2011 version) on a new 64-bit Windows 7
laptop, and have been able to do a limited amount with it.  I resist the
prompts to update my Windows Live to the 2011 version until Window-Eyes can
support it.

For my wife's new 64-bit computer, I bought Outlook 2007 (extra cost) along
with Office 2007 home and student edition, to use with Window-Eyes.  She
probably wishes I had bought JAWS!

Lloyd Rasmussen, Kensington, Maryland
Home:  http://lras.home.sprynet.com
Work:  http://www.loc.gov/nls
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:gui-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of Mike Freeman
> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 11:33 PM
> To: Discussion of the Graphical User Interface,GUI Talk Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] new 64 bit computer
> 
> Wish there were a Pine for Windows!
> 
> Mike
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Jacobson" <steve.jacobson at visi.com>
> To: "Discussion of the Graphical User Interface,GUI Talk Mailing List"
> <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>; "qubit" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 8:13 PM
> Subject: Re: [gui-talk] new 64 bit computer
> 
> 
> >I am probably going to purchase the e-mail program "Becky" from
> >
> > http://www.rimarts.co.jp/
> >
> > It is a nice little program somewhat like PMMail which I've used for a
> > dozen years or so.  It works well, but some of the terminology may
> suffer
> > a little in
> > translation.  Whether it does what you are looking for or not, Laura, I
> > don't know.  Thunderbird is a good program, too.  It seems to me,
> though,
> > that they
> > are updating it a lot and sometimes breaking previous features.  I might
> > just be hearing the negatives, though.  Windows Live Mail should be
> looked
> > at,
> > too, but it is important that if you get Windows Live Mail 2011 that one
> > be sure that the screen reader supports it.  It will not likely work
> well
> > with older
> > versions of screen readers.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Steve Jacobson
> >
> > On Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:02:46 -0600, qubit wrote:
> >
> >>Hey, hope you are satisfied with your purchase! I saw that in my qvc
> mail
> >>this morning and wondered if it would be a popular item.  There must be
> a
> >>catch -- seems like a low price for 3 processors, 6GB ram and 500GB hard
> >>drive.  If I hadn't already bought another notebook from Walmart I would
> >>probably have bitten on this one.
> >>Good luck and please post your experience using it.
> >>Oh, btw, you have several choices for a mailer.  Seems as if OE and its
> >>dbx
> >>mailboxes are obsolete now.  I hear a lot of complaints on the windows7
> >>list
> >>about windows live mail.  Some recommend thunderbird, which has jaws
> >>scripts.  You can import mail to thunderbird from OE files.
> >>There is also outlook, if you have a copy of Office7.  Someone else
> >>recommends eudora.
> >>I personally prefer something that can import my OE files and preserve
> not
> >>just the mailboxes, but the address book data, and the group lists in my
> >>address book.  I think I will choose thunderbird. Meanwhile, I am still
> >>using OE on my old rickety xp notebook.
> >>Good luck!
> >>--le