Quick Start Guide – Blaze EZ - Table of Contents - 1. What’s in the box? ..............1 2. Physical description............1 2.1. The Top Face ..............1 2.2. The Right Edge.............3 2.3. The Left Edge ...............4 2.4. The Bottom Edge ............4 2.5. The Back Face ..............4 3.
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Quick Start Guide – Blaze EZ Introduction This Quick Start guide gives you a basic orientation to your Blaze EZ, shows you how to connect and charge the battery, how to turn the unit on and off, how to access programs on the unit and how to prevent the accidental pressing of buttons.
10) Documentation CD 2. Physical description Place the Blaze EZ in your hand or on a desk or table top in front of you so that the keypad is facing up and the long rectangular slot on the side of the unit is facing left.
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Quick Start Guide – Blaze EZ Below the program buttons is a circular navigation pad containing 5 keys: the Left, Right, Up and Down arrows, and a small round button in the center which is the Select button. Below the navigation pad is a row of 3 buttons: 2 square buttons with a dot-like button between them.
Quick Start Guide – Blaze EZ 2.2. The Right Edge The right side of the unit contains 3 controls. Nearest the top of the unit is the volume dial. Turn the dial away from you to increase the volume, and turn it toward you to decrease it. As you adjust the volume, you feel the dial click past each setting, and the unit announces the volume level as a number.
< The Bottom Edge> 2.5. The Back Face Flip the Blaze EZ over in your hand so that the SD card slot is now on the right side. The back face or underside of the unit contains 3 things. At the very top in the center are a couple of holes for connecting the lanyard Underneath the lanyard connection is the OCR camera.
Do not use excessive force. Only slight pressure is required to insert the SD card in the slot. If the Blaze EZ is turned on, you will hear a sound to confirm that it has been recognized.
The SD card will pop out of the slot enough for you to grip it and pull it out completely. If the Blaze EZ is turned on, you will hear a sound to confirm that it has detected the removal of the SD card.
PC or a USB wall adapter. 6. Powering On/Off To power on the Blaze EZ, press and hold the Power button for 5 seconds. The first time you insert the battery or connect AC power to the Blaze EZ, the unit automatically boots with a short beep followed by a musical flourish with "HIMS"...
The utilities menu contains an Alarm, a Color reader, and utilities for formatting, initializing settings, and upgrading the blaze EZ. The “Options” item opens a menu of settings for the guide voice, system sounds, recording, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.
5) Press and hold "Select" when you are finished entering text. 8. Basic Interface and Programming Much of the programming on the Blaze EZ is easily executable via dedicated buttons. 8.1. Recording Press the round button below and to the left of the Power button to record and access saved recordings.
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This is the Explorer button and brings up a list of all the files and folders on all storage devices connected to the Blaze EZ containing media content. Use the Right and Left arrows to enter and exit folders respectively, and use the Up and Down arrows to move through a folder or file list.
To mute and unmute the sound of the radio, press the "Radio" (R) button while the radio application is open. To switch between the headphones and internal speakers of Blaze EZ, press and hold the "Radio" (R) button. 8.4. Books The button on the right of the row of square buttons is labeled with a b in Braille and opens the book reader.
Quick Start Guide – Blaze EZ voice. Use the Up and Down arrows to cycle through the various navigation elements for the book or document, and use the Left and Right arrows to move by the chosen element. 8.5. OCR To open the OCR program, press the square button on the bottom right corner of the keypad labeled with an o in Braille.
9. Web-based Programming 9.1. Web Radio To save internet radio stations to Blaze EZ, connect Blaze EZ to your computer, and copy Web radio playlist URL's to the Web radio folder. To open the Web Radio application, go to the Home menu and press the Left or right arrow to navigate to "Web Radio"...
You can import feeds to the unit by copying OPML files in to the "Podcasts" folder of the Blaze EZ when it is connected to a computer. When in the feed list, press the Left and Right arrows to navigate among the feeds.
Use the left and Right arrows to move between “File information” and “Download File”, and press “Select” to choose your option. Once the item is downloaded, you may play it in the Blaze EZ's Book Reader. 10. Utilities and Options 10.1. The Utilities Menu From the Home menu, use the left or Right arrow to navigate to “Utilities”, and press Select to open it.
7. Press Select to save your settings. 11. Checking Date and Time You can check the date and time on the Blaze EZ in two ways: 1) Press the Power button quickly. If you press the Power button quickly from anywhere on the unit, the date and time are announced.
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