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HIMS Blaze EZ Quick Start Manual

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  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    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.
  • Page 3 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.

  • Page 4: What's In The Box

    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.
  • Page 5 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.

  • Page 6: The Right Edge

    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 will feel the dial click past each setting, and the unit announces the volume level as a number.

  • Page 7: The Left Edge

    < 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.

  • Page 8: Inserting And Removing The Battery

    Quick Start Guide – Blaze EZ 3. Inserting and Removing the Battery As described above, you can access the battery compartment by sliding the back off of the unit. With the keypad facing down and the SD card slot facing to the right, locate the triangular ridged section under the camera on the back of the unit.

  • Page 9: Connecting To A Pc

    Quick Start Guide – Blaze EZ slot. If the Blaze EZ is turned on, you will hear a sound to confirm that it has been recognized. To remove the SD card, gently press the SD card into the card slot until it clicks, then release it. The SD card will pop out of the slot enough for you to grip it and pull it out completely.

  • Page 10: Powering On/Off

    6. Powering On/Off To power on the Blaze EZ, press and hold the Power button for 2 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"...

  • Page 11: The Home Menu

    Quick Start Guide – Blaze EZ 7. The Home Menu When you power on the unit, you are placed in the Home Menu. You can also get to the Home Menu by pressing Cancel when in a program. The Home Menu contains a combination of things including status information, settings, and executable programs not accessible via the program buttons.

  • Page 12: Basic Interface And Programming

    Quick Start Guide – Blaze EZ 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. A quick press of the Record button brings up a list of recordings saved on the unit.

  • Page 13: Fm Radio

    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.

  • Page 14: Books

    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.

  • Page 15: Ocr

    Quick Start Guide – Blaze EZ 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. You are presented with a list of options: "Take a picture", "Flash on/off", "Result", "Open captured file", "Open an...

  • Page 16: Podcasts

    24 default podcasts covering several genres. 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.

  • Page 17: Web Radio

    Quick Start Guide – Blaze EZ Blaze EZ. If you press "Select" on a podcast that is listed as 'Not played" or "Played", the Blaze EZ opens the Media Player and begins playing. You can interact with and navigate podcast files as you can any other media file on the unit.

  • Page 18: Checking Date And Time

    Quick Start Guide – Blaze EZ 10. 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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