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issue with net flicks and jaws
Jeffrey Schwartz
I search for a movie, in this case, the Big Chill. I get a message stating that the program is searching for the Big Chill. Jaws says that this is a link, but it takes me nowhere. Below is a list of ten or more links which seem like URLs. You would think that the first would be my movie, but it is not. I go down the list until I become too frustrated. Help, please Jeff
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Re: exporting contacts from a microsd card
Brian Vogel <britechguy@...>
What's going to determine what you can, or cannot, do is how the source device can export contacts. This is what their documentation says:
BACKING UP CONTACTS
-- Brian - Windows 10 Pro, 64-Bit, Version 2004, Build 19041 Always remember that computers are just glorified light bulbs - they rarely fail in continuous use and usually go pop when turned off and on. ~ Technician with the username Computer Bloke, on Technibble.com
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Re: Internet Explorer will no longer be supported in November
Brian Vogel <britechguy@...>
On Thu, Aug 20, 2020 at 08:48 AM, David Goldfield wrote:
Having said that the Komando article has misquoted the original blog post that it links to. IE is not being retired this November.- I personally never believe that anything said by Kim Komando is anywhere near to 100% accurate. At least a direct link to the source material is in this particular article, but there have been others where there was not even that. Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy!! And a long track record of being so. That being said, I absolutely agree that no one should continue to use IE, except if one happens to have the very odd situation where that's forced by a given employer or website, and that's a very, very rare occurrence these days. I've posted the references that follow on other groups before, but they're certainly pertinent in this topic: Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer | Daniel Miessler (Dec 2019) The perils of using Internet Explorer as your default browser ... (March 2019 – straight from the proverbial horse’s mouth) Microsoft cybersecurity expert: Please, stop using Internet ... (Feb 2019) Microsoft security chief: IE is not a browser, so stop using ... (Feb 2019) Microsoft wants you to stop using Internet Explorer (Feb 2019) 12 reasons not to use Internet Explorer, ever | Computerworld (June 2011 – Even more valid now) And if you web search on “Why you should not use Internet Explorer” the list of returned results is long, and virtually unanimous in the expert (and non-expert) opinion that you should not.
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Re: Browser Help Please.
Holly
Thanks for the info.
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Re: Browser Help Please.
Brian Vogel <britechguy@...>
https://brave.com/
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Re: Browser Help Please.
Holly
Hello:
Could someone send the link to download the Brave browser? Thanks
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Re: Browser Help Please.
Hope Williamson
I use a service for everything I ever want to save!!! Therefore I don't
have to import any bookmarks if I want to test a browser for a while. When I say everything, I mean it. This thing probably has over 10000 links in it.
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Re: Internet Explorer will no longer be supported in November
Hope Williamson
It's a service. You would normally download and install it on a web
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server that you might have handy, but they also have a hosted version, which I use. https://miniflux.app/hosting.html
On 8/21/2020 10:56 PM, David Goldfield wrote:
Hope, thank you for this recommendation. I was curious so I visited
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Re: Personal Power, the iOS edition, by Michael Feir, audio Daisy completed!
Gene
Yes, try pasting the link into the address bar of the browser rather than just pressing enter on it. Always try that if a link in an e-mail doesn't work and it is a written out link.
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Gene
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From: Curtis Delzer Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2020 2:28 AM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Personal Power, the iOS edition, by Michael Feir, audio Daisy completed! no, not down, I'll check though, right now b4 I send this message. sems to work if I just past the link for the stream or nls player, https://od.lk/d/NjRfMTgzNTIzNjZf/Personal%20Power%2C%20The%20iOS%20Edition%2C%203gp%20Daisy%20%28for%20nls%20and%20Victor%20Stream.zip (hopefully the link doesn't split. Curtis Delzer HS K 6 V F O Rialto, CA curtis@calweb.com On 8/21/2020 3:22 PM, Abbie Taylor wrote: For some reason, I can't download any of the versions on my PC running Windows 10. I tried all three versions and was told the file is temporarily unavailable. I'm using JAWS, by the way.
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Re: Personal Power, the iOS edition, by Michael Feir, audio Daisy completed!
Curtis Delzer
no, not down, I'll check though, right now b4 I send this message.
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sems to work if I just past the link for the stream or nls player, https://od.lk/d/NjRfMTgzNTIzNjZf/Personal%20Power%2C%20The%20iOS%20Edition%2C%203gp%20Daisy%20%28for%20nls%20and%20Victor%20Stream.zip (hopefully the link doesn't split. Curtis Delzer HS K 6 V F O Rialto, CA curtis@calweb.com
On 8/21/2020 3:22 PM, Abbie Taylor wrote:
For some reason, I can't download any of the versions on my PC running Windows 10. I tried all three versions and was told the file is temporarily unavailable. I'm using JAWS, by the way.
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Re: Internet Explorer will no longer be supported in November
David Goldfield <david.goldfield@...>
Hope, thank you for this recommendation. I was curious so I visited their site. After I found the downloads page for the latest release I am unable to find something which is clearly for Windows, other than a file named miniflux-windows-amd64 without an extension. What's the name of the Windows version?
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David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist www.DavidGoldfield.org
On 8/22/2020 1:35 AM, Hope Williamson wrote:
Lol we're the opposite, I follow a lot of feeds but I don't use my phone
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Re: Internet Explorer will no longer be supported in November
Hope Williamson
Lol we're the opposite, I follow a lot of feeds but I don't use my phone
hah. I do use Firefox and the hosted version of Miniflux. https://miniflux.app. I will say that it took me forever to get over wanting an exact replacement for Google reader, and by exact I mean like how everything was layed out. I did get over that though, after I found Miniflux.
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Re: Internet Explorer will no longer be supported in November
David Goldfield <david.goldfield@...>
Actually, I'm quite the fan of RSS news feeds but I don't use my
computer very much to access them. iOS users have some good
choices. The app that I use for this is called Lire. It costs
$6.99 but is well worth it if you follow a lot of feeds. David Goldfield, Blindness Assistive Technology Specialist www.DavidGoldfield.org On 8/21/2020 8:23 AM, Hope Williamson
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Right, but the ridiculous people who won't stop using IE because they're too picky to find another RSS reader should probably give up RSs in the first place. I mean, if MS decided to remote wipe IE from everyone's computers right now I wouldn't be all that sad about it. It would be a major privacy violation, so I'd be unhappy in that way, but otherwise I'd have to say yay it's finally over!!!
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Re: Browser Help Please.
Gene
One way to open bookmarks in an interface similar to Internet Explorer is to open the menu, the program has only one menu, with alt f. The menu may open if you press and release alt, then type f, but I'm not sure it always does so I hold alt and type f. Then either up or down arrow to bookmarks and press enter or type b and press enter.
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I don't think there is a short cut command to get into this interface such as control a oin Internet Explorer. If you have been adding book marks in Internet Explorer with control d, that command works in Chrome. Here is the message I sent to another list today. You may find it very useful in working with book marks in Chrome. I have slightly modified it to make it fit well witgh this message. I've discussed how to open a book mark interface similar to Internet Explorer's. But I almost never look at or work with the list. there is a much more efficient way to work with book marks and it doesn't matter where they are in the book marks folders. This method finds it wherever it is, so I never organize them. Go to the address bar, control l. Then type part of what you are searching for. You may have to experiment to se what works well and sometimes though typing part of what you are looking for usually works well, you may have to experiment when looking for a particular book mark to see what part of the name works well. As an example, when I want to find the New York Times book mark, I type times in the address bar. Then I start up arrowing. the book mark is likely to be found much faster by up arrowing. If I want to find something else, If I want to find my Door Dash book mark, I type door and up arrow. If I want to find the All Things Considered book mark, I type things and up arrow. To go to a result, press enter on it. If you want to start over or look for something else or for the same thing in a different way, just use the command control l again and type what you want. It will overwrite what is there and you can up or down arrow to see what is found. Gene
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From: Gene Sent: Friday, August 21, 2020 6:56 PM To: main@TechTalk.groups.io Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Browser Help Please. Browsing is browsing with any browser that supports the virtual pc cursor or browse mode, whatever your screen-reader calls it. Firefox, Chrome, and The Brave browser all support The Virtual PC Cursor or Browse mode. that's the same thing that you have been using in Internet Explorer. Its unfortunate that so many people have needless fear and use an increasingly oudated browser. Use control l instead of control o to move to the address bar, where you type an address. Book marks are gotten to a little differently than in Internet Explorer. I'll send more information about an easy way to work with them in another message. I sent such a message earlier to another list. Others will, I hope, tell you more about im;portting book marks. but with either browser, you will see that navigating web pages is just about identical to doing so in Internet Explorer. A page may display something a little differently, for example, a button or link may show different words. On one site I've worked with to upload files, the button may say something like browse with one browser and select a file with another browser. Sometimes, different browsers see different parts of code on web pages. As far as which browser to use between the Brave browser and Google Chrome, if you want to use a browser that takes what I consider an ethical stance towards advertisements on web sites, the Brave browser does. I'll provide a link to the page where you can read about it and download it. Aside from its policies on advertising by web sites, the browser itself is very similar to the Chrome browser, it is based on Chrome. You will get faster loading of web sites because a lot of commercials are blocked and its safer because, at times advertising is hacked and hackers try to download malware through hacked advertising. https://brave.com/ Gene ----Original Message----- From: Janet Sent: Friday, August 21, 2020 6:05 PM To: 'main@TechTalk.groups.io' Subject: [TechTalk] Browser Help Please. Hi Everyone, I have been having a problem trying to get to any web site do to my IE browser, so I am finally getting around to it. I can't access half of the web sites I want to. I have received many messages when I try to get to a web site, I keep getting the message saying I need to update my browser, or a message telling me I am using an outdated browser. I am using the latest IE as my browser along with Windows 7. I have this same problem regardless which web site I go to. Can someone tell me a little about Brave and Chrome browsers, as I have always just used IE, but now, IE is almost disabled! Can someone also please give me a web site to download either browser, as I am in need for a update browser as soon as possible. Is either of these browsers difficult to be configured, if so, can someone please tell me what I need to do? Thank you all in advance. Janet Peace Be With You.
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Re: Browser Help Please.
heather albright
Yes, if you are used to IE you may want the favorites to be in the favorites folder. You can still do this, it works the same way for chrome browsers, edge, a little different but, still the same consept. These instructions are for the brave browser, it works too with chrome, if you want to use that browser too. I did this off my pc because I did not want to have to fined the pathway to where ever they keep the favorites stored with chrome, brave or edge. So I decided to use the favorites folder that IE used to use. It is organized and I did not have to emport or export favorites to any browser. SO here you go:
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So for example go to www.nfb.org in brave, hit the alt key and arrow up to more tools and arrow down to create shortcut. You can name the site like national federation of the blind home page and tab twice to create. It will be placed on the desktop so you can cut it and place it in the favorites folder in windows10. So you can use any browser to git to any site from your favorites. and you can keep the favorites folder and copy that folder to any pc. You can do the same thing with edge but, it will most likely place the favorite in the downloads folder instead of the desktop like chrome and brave unless you change the pathway. Also if you have issues with the browser, if you have to redo the browser, your favorites are saved so you can get back to them. If anyone knows of a better way, please share! Cheers Heather
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From: "Gene" <gsasner@gmail.com> To: <main@TechTalk.groups.io> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2020 6:56 PM Subject: Re: [TechTalk] Browser Help Please. Browsing is browsing with any browser that supports the virtual pc cursor or browse mode, whatever your screen-reader calls it. Firefox, Chrome, and The Brave browser all support The Virtual PC Cursor or Browse mode. that's the same thing that you have been using in Internet Explorer. Its unfortunate that so many people have needless fear and use an increasingly oudated browser. Use control l instead of control o to move to the address bar, where you type an address.
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Re: Browser Help Please.
Gene
Browsing is browsing with any browser that supports the virtual pc cursor or browse mode, whatever your screen-reader calls it. Firefox, Chrome, and The Brave browser all support The Virtual PC Cursor or Browse mode. that's the same thing that you have been using in Internet Explorer. Its unfortunate that so many people have needless fear and use an increasingly oudated browser. Use control l instead of control o to move to the address bar, where you type an address.
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Book marks are gotten to a little differently than in Internet Explorer. I'll send more information about an easy way to work with them in another message. I sent such a message earlier to another list. Others will, I hope, tell you more about im;portting book marks. but with either browser, you will see that navigating web pages is just about identical to doing so in Internet Explorer. A page may display something a little differently, for example, a button or link may show different words. On one site I've worked with to upload files, the button may say something like browse with one browser and select a file with another browser. Sometimes, different browsers see different parts of code on web pages. As far as which browser to use between the Brave browser and Google Chrome, if you want to use a browser that takes what I consider an ethical stance towards advertisements on web sites, the Brave browser does. I'll provide a link to the page where you can read about it and download it. Aside from its policies on advertising by web sites, the browser itself is very similar to the Chrome browser, it is based on Chrome. You will get faster loading of web sites because a lot of commercials are blocked and its safer because, at times advertising is hacked and hackers try to download malware through hacked advertising. https://brave.com/ Gene
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From: Janet Sent: Friday, August 21, 2020 6:05 PM To: 'main@TechTalk.groups.io' Subject: [TechTalk] Browser Help Please. Hi Everyone, I have been having a problem trying to get to any web site do to my IE browser, so I am finally getting around to it. I can't access half of the web sites I want to. I have received many messages when I try to get to a web site, I keep getting the message saying I need to update my browser, or a message telling me I am using an outdated browser. I am using the latest IE as my browser along with Windows 7. I have this same problem regardless which web site I go to. Can someone tell me a little about Brave and Chrome browsers, as I have always just used IE, but now, IE is almost disabled! Can someone also please give me a web site to download either browser, as I am in need for a update browser as soon as possible. Is either of these browsers difficult to be configured, if so, can someone please tell me what I need to do? Thank you all in advance. Janet Peace Be With You.
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Re: Browser Help Please.
heather albright
I use the brave browser and you can get from https://brave.com/
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It is a simple chrome browser and easy to use. cheers Heather
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From: "Janet" <janet.harvard@outlook.com> To: <main@TechTalk.groups.io> Sent: Friday, August 21, 2020 6:05 PM Subject: [TechTalk] Browser Help Please. Hi Everyone, I have been having a problem trying to get to any web site do to my IE browser, so I am finally getting around to it. I can't access half of the web sites I want to. I have received many messages when I try to get to a web site, I keep getting the message saying I need to update my browser, or a message telling me I am using an outdated browser. I am using the latest IE as my browser along with Windows 7. I have this same problem regardless which web site I go to. Can someone tell me a little about Brave and Chrome browsers, as I have always just used IE, but now, IE is almost disabled! Can someone also please give me a web site to download either browser, as I am in need for a update browser as soon as possible. Is either of these browsers difficult to be configured, if so, can someone please tell me what I need to do? Thank you all in advance. Janet Peace Be With You.
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Browser Help Please.
Janet
Hi Everyone,
I have been having a problem trying to get to any web site do to my IE browser, so I am finally getting around to it. I can't access half of the web sites I want to. I have received many messages when I try to get to a web site, I keep getting the message saying I need to update my browser, or a message telling me I am using an outdated browser. I am using the latest IE as my browser along with Windows 7. I have this same problem regardless which web site I go to. Can someone tell me a little about Brave and Chrome browsers, as I have always just used IE, but now, IE is almost disabled! Can someone also please give me a web site to download either browser, as I am in need for a update browser as soon as possible. Is either of these browsers difficult to be configured, if so, can someone please tell me what I need to do? Thank you all in advance. Janet Peace Be With You.
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Re: Personal Power, the iOS edition, by Michael Feir, audio Daisy completed!
Abbie Taylor
For some reason, I can't download any of the versions on my PC running Windows 10. I tried all three versions and was told the file is temporarily unavailable. I'm using JAWS, by the way.
Have the files been taken down already? If so, that's too bad. I just saw this announcement. I'm hoping to buy an iPhone next week and was looking forward to reading this book. --
http://www.abbiejohnsontaylor.com abbietaylor945@...
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exporting contacts from a microsd card
Joe Giovanelli <joegio100@...>
Hello,
I want to export contacts from a blindshell classic to an IPhone. I have them on a microsd card but what do I do from there? Are these files compiled in a standard way? Thanks for your ideas. Joe, W2PVLY
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