Wokiebear (whose real name I don't know!) published this on depoman:
I just finished a two-day RT depo with my Etch-A-Sketch Pink (yes, I got the pink, but only because I wanted the pink to honor my Big Sis, who died of breast cancer...she was my mom, too, because we have a large family). I checked my untranslates. It was .9 percent. I am estatic. I'm off and running. I came home feeling like I hadn't even written all day. First day was 230 pgs, second was just 120 pgs. I had absolutely no pain at all in my hands. I actually felt refreshed. I couldn't believe it when I checked my untrans. I used the macros from the writer, too. Makes me feel joyful to write all over again. I even felt like it helped me be faster in writing. I did made one other tweak on the job to the vowel U as I felt I was missing it some where I didn't realize that before. And I've only been actively using the LS on the job for just a month.
What did I do? I didn't immediately start writing and practicing from a job. I came in every night and practiced on it with fingerdrills to make my mind acclimate to the different feel. Why my mind? Because my fingers already knew where to go...my mind didn't with the new didactics. So I trained my mind first w/out pushing it. THEN I practiced on a depo I already had. THEN after a week of intensive training, took it with me. I also feel I am indebted to the reporters who posted their config file because I used one of those and just had to only tweak it minutely. Why at night? I reserve daytime for work...nighttime is my me time for whatever and I could practice w/out interruption from anyone. I don't feel like I'm skating on ice anymore. It feels comfortable and at home. I did use a support for my wrists at first so I would not put them on the keys or "rest" them on the home keys until I felt at ease w/out the supports. I used a gel mouse pad I have -- had to use two, one for each side. Once I started taking my pearl out on the job, I never looked back and tried to go back and forth to my Mira so that my brain would gel into place.
I'm going to actually save money on this pearl because I won't have to have (yet) that expensive Support contract with Stenograph.
Oh, what a pearl....(pink pearl)!
My Red LightSpeed
October 4, 2008
August 29, 2008
Sharing user configurations
Can't set up your configuration files? Try some other users' configs. I have uploaded some user config.xml files at www.alcra.org/downloads/configs. All you have to do is save the file to your LightSpeed folder (instructions on the linked page) and load them in your LightSpeed GUI interface.
August 18, 2008
Taking a certification test
So last week I was asked to sit in on our state's certification test to monitor the quality. Okay, sounds like, um, fun. So I agreed. I went in with no practice, and I forgot to bring any warm-up material. So I sit there while the test candidates warm up.
At test time, I wrote the intro as my warm-up. I was a little nervous. Then the test. WOW! Went great! Nailed the literary and jury charge; not drops. Did really well on the QA, although I did drop a portion. Still, what a great experience with the writer. Now... time to practice for the realtime certification.
At test time, I wrote the intro as my warm-up. I was a little nervous. Then the test. WOW! Went great! Nailed the literary and jury charge; not drops. Did really well on the QA, although I did drop a portion. Still, what a great experience with the writer. Now... time to practice for the realtime certification.
August 12, 2008
LS software and config files
The LightSpeed software is the interface, or GUI, on your computer.
The LightSpeed firmware is the software which resides on the writer itself.
When you make changes in your basic threshold settings, when you click on Done, you will see a small box indicating that the software is sending the settings to your writer. When you use Bluetooth as your method of connection for realtime, the settings which reside on your writer are utilized. When you use Bluetooth, you are not going through the LightSpeed GUI, so you don't have the advantage of the settings other than the basic thresholds -- the single key, combination, and other settings in the LS software, such as the anti-stacking. When you use the USB cable, you do get the benefit of those settings.
When you save your settings, you are saving a config.xml file. Each time you save it, you should rename it with a specific name. I use Greta_config_(date). That way, if I mess something up, I can go back to my last config. Or at least that's the theory. I recently had an incident where I quit using the date, and I accidentally overwrote all my settings by clicking on Apply All. Thankfully, I had my config backed up on my thumb drive with my other backup files!
The config file resides in this path (which opens automatically in the dialog box when you click Save in your LS GUI):
C:/
Documents and Settings
(User name)
Application Data
LightSpeed
If you get to the user name portion of the path and you don't see Application Data folder, go to Tools and the View tab, the Hidden files and folders folder, then click on Show hidden files and folders.
I am working on a web page which will have different LS users' config.xml files for download. When I get that up and running, I will post that here.
The LightSpeed firmware is the software which resides on the writer itself.
When you make changes in your basic threshold settings, when you click on Done, you will see a small box indicating that the software is sending the settings to your writer. When you use Bluetooth as your method of connection for realtime, the settings which reside on your writer are utilized. When you use Bluetooth, you are not going through the LightSpeed GUI, so you don't have the advantage of the settings other than the basic thresholds -- the single key, combination, and other settings in the LS software, such as the anti-stacking. When you use the USB cable, you do get the benefit of those settings.
When you save your settings, you are saving a config.xml file. Each time you save it, you should rename it with a specific name. I use Greta_config_(date). That way, if I mess something up, I can go back to my last config. Or at least that's the theory. I recently had an incident where I quit using the date, and I accidentally overwrote all my settings by clicking on Apply All. Thankfully, I had my config backed up on my thumb drive with my other backup files!
The config file resides in this path (which opens automatically in the dialog box when you click Save in your LS GUI):
C:/
Documents and Settings
(User name)
Application Data
LightSpeed
If you get to the user name portion of the path and you don't see Application Data folder, go to Tools and the View tab, the Hidden files and folders folder, then click on Show hidden files and folders.
I am working on a web page which will have different LS users' config.xml files for download. When I get that up and running, I will post that here.
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