Hello jenny,

so when you go to the group, do you see "follow" or "stop following" .. this can be found on top of the member section of the group.. please see image I attached 2 comments down.

Hope I made sense.. sorry, i know that the site is confusing because of the sea of features provided.
thanks

No, Jenny, I don't get over there, so THANK YOU SO MUCH for posting Allen's response. I'm so glad he made it to one of MK's seminars.

I should go to his CSRnation page and ask him to copy it over here on the main page. When such an awesome writer talks, such as Allen, one with as much experience as pretty much anyone in our profession these days, I personally think the whole CR world should listen.

So many reporters on this site don't think of their longevity in the profession. So many reporters are working way too hard, writing way too long, and then convincing others to do the same -- or at least encouraging them to keep on the same track.

Anyway, I'm preaching to the choir again -- or is it the choir preaching to the preacher.

Thanks again, Jenny. That made my day.

Hi Jenny!! how are you holding up over there in Boulder Creek with all this rain? Just was thinking of you today and the Grand ~ how's it coming?? Have you taken any jobs on it? Have you decided whether to go w/ it or to come back to the LS? I'm anxious to work again b/c my jobs were so good last week on the LS (nothing scheduled this week)
I hope you had a nice long weekend!!

Good, good luck!! Thank you for all your help on the LS ~ even your continuing to offer when you're not even on it!!
Great picture of the hail up there ~ it looks like snow!! Are you guys finally drying out, warming up, and getting back to normal today? We survived pretty well ~ a couple leaky skylights that we now have to deal with ~ sigh! But our power did stay on, thank goodness.
I'm going down to the DRA convention tomorrow. I'm going to look for the Grand so I can see it in person!! But for now, I'm sticking w/ the LS!

Congrats on the Red!!!!! That's my fav color, but wanted gold to match my car, lol! So excited for you!

I actually sold it to another reporter becuase I just don't have time to sit down and get it all figured out. So I sold it to her. It was so nice though...but I didn't want to keep holding onto to it for any longer becuase I just wasn't able to get to it.

Hope you like yours

what about friday? i DON'T have anything going on, as of yet. what about you?

Hi Jenny ~ It was really fun!! It's so rare that we can hang out with other court reporters. The seminars were great. There was a really good keynote speaker and lunch on Saturday, and, of course, there was plenty of socializing!!
I did sit down at the Grand ~ very interesting. I'm sure I could probably get used to it. But I really like the touch of the Stylus. If I didn't have the LS, I would go with the Stylus. There were a lot of good vendors there ~ I could shop and spend a fortune, but I didn't do too bad or go too crazy!!!
I hope you had a nice weekend. How was the rain for you yesterday? Hopefully, better since it was a warmer storm.
I hope it's picking up for you ~ it's seems a little hot and cold. last week nothing for me and then 2 days this week (but both are supposed to be all-dayer's ~ keeping my fingers crossed!!)

All our forum pics? Oh, my . . .

I love this! Makes me smile. :)

Hey, Jenny,
So I just got back from the DDRA convention, and yes, they did offer one month support with my purchase. Now, I don't know if that's a convetion special or what. I'm not a techie, but I didn't find it hard at all to plug in the transponder then plug in one receiver on my second laptop which has Bridge loaded on. For me what took the longest was getting the settings just right. Both computers need to be set to CaseView. And for me the baud rate is set to 2400. And of couse check your com port settings. Transmits fine.
However, then I got an error message, "an unnamed file contains an incorrect path." So the Eclipse tech guy told me to download the latest version of Bridge, and hopefully that will solve my problem.

I'll keep you posted, once I actually do a realtime job for real, see how it goes.

Ctrl 1....what?????? Not familiar with it. I'm so bad with the whole macros thing, as you know! And literally I just learned this past weekend that alt+tab switches my windows. Wow. Where have I been.

Okay, and so yesterday I went to Best Buy to check out the netbooks. And I'm thinking of gettting the MSI Wind. 1gb RAM; Intel Atom processor, 1.6ghz processro speed. $319. I basically wanna use it just for Bridge and surfing the net (maybe). Waddya think? Where did you get your Acer?

Yeah, Depoman just held a seminar at the DRA and touted the Acer. They do have battery life issues. I'll check it out. Thanks for the link!
Gotta scoot.
Signing off!
Heidi

0 and 5 is ALWAYS a good thing!

jeeeeeeeez, you are SO bossy! :P

Thank you Jenny,
What a relief! I just received my professional version of Eclipse, and that would be a huge help. I just did my first job last Tuesday, an EBT. I was never so nervous in my life. I went to go onto Eclipse, it said "access code denied"...OMG!! I handled it well. I guess all court reporters will never forget their first job.
Congratulations on passing your CRR!!
Thanks again,
Susan

Hey, jenny ~ just checking in and making sure you're not floating away down there :)) Today's been crazy ~ i dont' think it's stopped for more than 10 minutes! Good think I like the rain.
How's the Grand treating you? Well, I hope. The LS is still hanging in there for me.

Hi Jenny,
I heard a lot of negative feedback about the LS. I happen to get a great deal on the Elan Mira A3. Someone from my school contacted me about a woman who was selling the machine, plus Case 8.01 with the edit key for...get ready...$2,500! I could not pass that up. I did sell the software because I am on Eclipse, and did not want to change.
Who makes the Gemini Grand? Is it a paperless writer? I love my paperless writer!

Susan

Yeah, I worked yesterday, today (a short dr. dep), and have a work comp depo tomorrow. It seems to be picking up. This week I've actually had to turn down work b/c for the first time in a long time I got mutliple calls on two of the same days. You know, two of the calls I had to turn down were from reporters I hadn't heard from in a while and they both do work comp. So maybe that arena is picking up again. This week is the first work comp depo I've done in probably two years. So maybe it's getting busier :))

Can't live without hypers. (Lisa, are you reading this?) I held out until December of '07, very near the end, close enough to pretend it was my New Year's resolution.

Fast typing has nothing to do with it. It's reaching for function keys, especially the arrow keys. Moving the cursor around from home row is priceless! Best thing evah! The only thing that threw me was remembering to hit the N to type in something. I still forget sometimes, but it's much more automatic now. I even type N on things that are already type mode, it comes so naturally now.

Lisa, (I know you'll peek), it isn't G instead of Ctrl-G that makes this golden -- big deal, right? It's JKLI for left, down, right up; it's C for next conflict; ] for end of line, [ for home. Far less hand movement is far better for our hands! :)

Just wanted to say hi. I've been missing you and saw your pic on Lisa's page.

So I helped Clay a little this weekend on a job, and he doesn't have it set where when you put in a period it automatically spaces two spaces. It drove me nuts.

I know he can fix that somewhere. Hopefully he asks Eclipse before the next time I help him out.

I called Acculaw yesterday. Still can get a full setup for $3100 out the door. I don't know what Breck was posting about the "deal of a lifetime." Sounded like it was the deal of a lifetime for him.

He seems like a really nice guy, but I really think Acculaw is the place to go to purchase Eclipse.

So my real question is:

Does Eclipse have the feature where it suggests what's already in your dictionary??

Procat did get that feature this past year, and I'm refusing to buy Eclipse until I know they have it for sure. Do you know??

I know you talked about the translation magic being phenomenal, but I really need to know if they have that other feature also. There are so many times when I know I have something awesome in my dictionary and I can't remember the dang outline. Old age, I guess.

Hope you are having a great week!!

The work gates for Clay finally opened up this week. He's so happy right now, which was great timing because he was starting to get really bummed out.

Gotta go do the 'cuzzi.

His P-P for period comes up great on RT. It's in edit when it doesn't auto space the two, so that will help me direct him to the right spot. He might have already fixed it since last weekend.

So . . . I'm calling Acculaw and am sending off the check. Clay isn't using the translation magic, etc., so you know I'm going to be driving you and Brenda nuts with all the how-tos.

Could you please just tell me one more time that this old dog really can learn a new trick??

After 22 years on Procat, it's quite an endeavor for me to make the switch, but FINALLY I'm doing it. Thank you for all the encouragement.

I'll have to look Jason up. A dude who wants to write short -- my FAVE!

On-the-fly realtime macros??? I'm so dying for them. Yes, I have no problem hitting a stroke to enable it.

He did start with Mark Kislingbury's 240,000 word dictionary and he has had to do a lot of tweaking as far as software specific details because Mark is on DigitalCat. I don't think he's ever tried the Translation Magic. I know he tried the one where the suggested outlines pop up -- what's that called -- and he didn't care for it.

I want to try them all, though, as I've felt crippled for a long time now.

I think I need a training class or two, don't you??

What does "has he tried it at zero" mean?

No, Jenny, the deal through Acculaw comes with a full year's support through Eclipse. It is exactly like purchasing directly through them. Clay has full support for a year and then after that keeps his support plan up with Eclipse directly.

I'm telling you, it's the only way to go. I need to purchase it now, though, before too many people read about it and they don't have one available. They can only sell the ones they have coming through. They make the deal with Eclipse, buying the transfer fees, so there are no additional costs.

That's what I was saying about the "deal of a lifetime." It's the deal of a lifetime for him because you'd still have to make the license agreement with Eclipse, and who knows how much that would cost.

I'll call right now and tell them the check's in the mail.

Acculaw will help me get set up AND Eclipse will take over whenever I need them. Cool, huh!

I know it works because I just went through it with Clay. I was a bit more skeptical last time.

I saw my senior's translation screen today using the -- whatever one you can't wait for me to see. Where it guesses and puts it in a different color.

Only one time she had something really strange come out for four perfect strokes. That worried me, but she absolutely loves it.

They faxed me the forms to fill out today to my home. As soon as my check gets there -- I think Florida -- they'll be sending it out to me. YIPPEE!!

So what's the status on the LS??

You definitely win the patience award. Would you mind if I borrowed just a little of that??

Oh, I like it! I just changed mine today.

Oh, please do. I don't really understand what the problem was, so better to come from you.

That shamrock is the picture for MTR for the season too. Glad you like it. :)

Wynne doesnt use hypers and is adamantly against the idea. Mary doesn't use hypers and isn't interested. Lisa. None of the people in town who have gone to those couple seminars I went to last year use them. The trainer brushed me aside when I was describing hyperkey commands for some of what she was teaching.

There are a lot still out there not using them. If it weren't for this keyboard that is just a PITA, I probably wouldn't have bothered learning them either.

comma to a period is the same in hypers and std -- it's only in type mode when in hypers that it isn't automatic. Cursor movement is the thing to bring people around. Adding a Ctrl or Alt button or not to global isn't worth relearning. In fact, most often, I use Ctrl-G if I want to global more than one word/stroke. It's not that big a time saver to learn 7 8 9. But if you don't have to move from home row to move . . . that's HUGE!!

Don't tweak too much. Don't hurt yourself. But have fun with the Grand!

LOL Woohoo!!!

I'm already addicted, and yes, I know what you mean on the Ctrl/1 thing - yea! Thanks for dropping a note my way - and WOW, you are from one of my favorite areas in the world! Hope to meet you sometime ... I'll certainly see you again online.

Jenny,
did a quick blog entry showing a pic of how I sit w/my Grand.....it rests on my legs. I don't bend it too much, more tilting it in than up or down...

I have a smidge of stacking now that I'm getting used to it. Have still not adjusted anything tho. But I think I will, when I call Jason soon, lol!!! Is my fingers not 'leaving' the keys, so think I want them shorter. At least w/this machine, 'everyone' CAN adjust to what they work good with!!!

That makes sense, Jenny....one reason I have not 'rushed' to adjust and just try to get used to it, if that makes sense, lol!

Thanks, Jenny. I will definitely contact Karen and Angie so that I get a better feel for how my experience level and the course offerings match up.

Redwoods sound wonderful, too! So glad we're in touch.

Hey, Jenny... with all these comments about the power of the writer versus the computer... I'm tempted to try to use my desktop monster just to see if it's any better. I would HATE to think that my "suggestion" from the vendor was not a good one and that I'd spent the money (albeit only $600) when I didn't need to.

I'm behind on transcripts, though, and alas according to my boss, those take precedence. Tune in later for more details! ;)

sorry to miss you in LV this year. We'll get around to it eventually! Barb and I are going to try and get tix to Bette... I think that would be GRAND!!

ciao

OMG. love the gull!! That is so CUTE!!

I got to tell Monti to check it out.

I had no idea I was the "Comment Wall Wizard."

At least I'm not the "Babbling Blogger." HA!

Oh, and Clay is using hyperkeys. I have tried them out. I think it wouldn't take me too long to get used to them. I don't want to get you all worked up -- yes, I do plan on using them.

I don't think he has the right box checked in edit is the reason for lack of autospace and cap.

Of maybe it's the "Comment Wall Witch." :)

Of course I saw the funny side of the gull. I usually see the funny side of things -- especially when it's spot on. :)

I'll have to check out the 3,000 word thing. I have no idea what you are talking about -- I mean which site it's on -- so I need to go check it out.

We can only do so much. :)

I'm off for a swim with my hubby. We need to get in shape. Doc's orders for him from his cardiologist today. Told him I'd join him because I have too many aches and pains from not moving around enough.

So how was the massage??

I got a wimpy one on Saturday. So disappointing. I tell her if she's not hurting me I'm not happy, and there she goes doing the Swedish stuff.

First time at my chiro's office, though, it was wimpy. She is a student in training, so guess I should give her a break, but I will not be returning to her soon.

Think I'll schedule one for Saturday now so I don't get the leftovers. :)

Hope yours was awesome!

I'll have to check that link out.

LOL, put that pic up last summer, I think. Still looks the same, lol. I have two of the SK books signed by him too! Been a fan since The Stand in 1978. I just got the latte syrups, Torani or somethng?? DH got me a Krups latte maker two birthdays ago. Love it! But have put on a few pounds, lol. Trying the syrups instead of the flavored creamers, lol.

Hey, I just checked out that thread on Advantage you sent me. The questions were pretty basic. I was pretty sure Eclipse had all the features he was asking about.

Now, figuring out how to implement all of them, that's where I'm going to have a tough time with this old brain.

Clay isn't using any auto-include files. Do you know your entry for those?

Like sworn and recess and datelines, etc. I think Procat's is [f:jobname.trn], but I'd have to check to make sure.

Don't go to any trouble. He can call support. He thinks he should just set them up as briefs???

I know Procat couldn't handle five-line briefs, etc.

The guy from Acculaw called and said he got a used system turned in with a main key and an edit key, so I'm still needing to touch base with him to get it. I've been soo busy.

Friday I reported three separate murder cases -- pretrial motions on one (402s), a Miranda motion on a murder trial trailing behind that one, and a verdict on a murder trial that had gone out on Thursday.

Same dept. juggling three different murder cases. That was a first for me.

Next week I'm reporting an attempted murder trial with four defendants, five attorneys, and three juries. Guess it's extremely difficult because it's two L.A. (female) attorneys and they're getting real catty with the D.A., who talks so fast he doesn't know what he's saying and says the wrong words way too often.

It's going to be a challenge, and I can't wait. Sounds like so much fun!!

That's what I keep telling him.

He's doing so awesome, though. I'm not complaining. He reported a jury trial one day in the afternoon this past week, and the reporter he covered wanted an ASCII for readback purposes. He didn't bat an eye. I would have totally freaked, I think, if I had to do something like that right out of the chute.

It's so new, though, that he isn't even thinking auto includes yet. He's booked for the next ten days straight (in court), so I'm sure he'll have it figured out before the two weeks are over.

Here's another "problem":

If I get a last-minute call to a courtroom, I just take my machine -- well, when it's not an RT dept. So I'll go over there for five minutes to an hour. When I come back to my office, I hook up my RT, and when I set up my case name and begin my RT file, what I reported on my machine for that timer period just dumps into the RT file. This works as long as, of course, I don't turn my machine off after I'm through reporting.

He thinks Eclipse cannot do that, and I just find it mind boggling that that can't be done. I can always append a new RT file with an old one or a brand new file.

You probably don't have very much experience with this, as with depos I don't think you change your seat and go to another room and report, etc.

What do you think??

I'll post this to the mass if you don't know because he's so adamant that it's not an Eclipse feature that I think he's not going to ask a tech about it.

He's on my old Smartwriter, and I had to go off of it because it dumped so slowly after rehooking into RT. So every time there was a bench or chambers conference, etc., I'd go back and it would read through at a snail's pace.

Today, when we used the Smartwriter, which he is still using, and unhooked and hooked back up, it tran'd in like lightening. I always thought it was the machine, and come to find out it was the software all these years.

It doesn't do it with my Mira. It trans in fast.

I'm thinking he probably should shim the Smartwriter and hang on to it instead of buying any writer out these days.

I guess it is a little dark. If I was talented like you, I'd have my shamrocks up. :)

I did cook corned beef and cabbage today, though. Does that count for anything?? HA!

My son Chase just put a bowl of vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup under my nose and told me I should get some while it's "soft." Of course the bowl was his.

Funny timing, as I just read your lack-of-ice-cream comment.

Yes, we can ask for directions, can't we!!

Is that better??